How To Use Weddell sea In A Sentence
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These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.
The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
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However, when the Endurance was crushed the event was so unexpected and sudden that his entire stock of negatives was in immediate danger of sinking to the bottom of the Weddell Sea, to be lost forever.
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The whales were choosy preferring weddell seals, which can be up to 11 feet long, to the more aggressive crabeater and leopard seals.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The current is not, however, continuous around Antarctica and it is absorbed in the two large gyre systems of the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea.
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For, while Palmer could not have "coasted" to 44o West as the Antarctic coast veers far south along the Weddell Sea around 57o West., that is the longitude of the South Orkney Islands.
Palmer, Nathaniel
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But during studies of the foraging behavior of Weddell seals, the researchers acquired considerable data on two important fish species: the Antarctic silverfish and the Antarctic toothfish.
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Our research team in Antarctica includes eight biologists who travel south every austral summer to study Weddell seals as they hunt beneath the sea ice.
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Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddelli, Ross seal Ommatophoca rossi and crabeater seal Lobodon carcinophagus are occasionally present on Heard Island (at the extreme northern limit of their pelagic ranges), while subantarctic fur seal A. tropicalis was first recorded on Heard Island in 1987/88.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia
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Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddelli) and crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) are very rare vagrants from the south.
MacQuarie Island, Australia
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The ship became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea on 18 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November.
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But during studies of the foraging behavior of Weddell seals, the researchers acquired considerable data on two important fish species: the Antarctic silverfish and the Antarctic toothfish.
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This autumn he will be setting off on an historic visit to the Antarctic, spending 50 days on board a ship anchored to a drifting ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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Southern Oceantotal: 20.327 million sq km note: includes Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, part of the Drake Passage, Ross Sea, a small part of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies
Area
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Two Weddell seals lay on the beach and a leopard seal lurked just offshore.
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New observations of "pack ice" killer whales roaming the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula show they dine almost exclusively on Weddell seals, which make up just 15 per cent of the seal population.
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Area: total: 20.327 million sq km note: includes Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, part of the Drake Passage, Ross Sea, a small part of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies
Southern Ocean
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Vast ice shelves in the Ross and Weddell Seas calve off huge tabular icebergs of hundreds and even thousands of square kilometres, that float away from Antarctica and into the Southern Ocean and drift north.
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Even as young pups, then, Weddell seals have several anatomical adaptations that enable them to avoid overheating in the sunlight.
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Carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms, crustaceans, and molluscs living in the Weddell Sea provide new insights into the evolution of ocean life.
May 16th, 2007
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Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddelli, Ross seal Ommatophoca rossi and crabeater seal Lobodon carcinophagus are occasionally present on Heard Island (at the extreme northern limit of their pelagic ranges), while subantarctic fur seal A. tropicalis was first recorded on Heard Island in 1987/88.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia
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This image, captured by NASA's MODIS satellite sensor on February 23, shows the shelf mid-disintegration, spewing a cloud of icebergs adrift in the Weddell Sea.
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The progression from the comminution till and gravelly mud of Units 3 and 2 into the diatomaceous mud of Unit 1 likely represents the Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene transition in the northwestern Weddell Sea.
Domack on the Larsen 1-A Ice Shelf « Climate Audit
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The hydrographical work in the Weddell Sea has done much to clear up the mystery of this, the least known of all the seas.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917