Bellingshausen Sea

-71- 85Koordinaten: 71 ° 0 ' 0 " S, 85 ° 0' 0 " W

The Bellingshausen Sea is a marginal sea of the Southern Ocean and is located in the north of the Antarctic subcontinent Westantarktika, west of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Geography

The Bellingshausen Sea extends in a westerly direction to Cape Flying Fish, the northwestern extreme of Thurston Island. West of the Amundsen Sea joins. 450 km from the Antarctic coastline is the Peter I Island. To the east is the largest island of Antarctica, Alexander I Island. The Bellingshausen Sea was named after the standing in the Russian service German - Baltic sailors Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who in 1821 sailed for the first time.

The Bellingshausen Sea covers an area of ​​600,000 km ². It has a maximum depth of 4094 meters. According to other data, the sea is 487,000 km ² and a maximum of 4470 m deep.

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