Scotia Sea

The Scottish lake (English Scotia Sea, Spanish Mar del Scotia ) is located partly in the Southern Ocean, especially in the Atlantic Ocean between Tierra del Fuego ( there Mitre Peninsula ), Isla de los Estados, the, Burdwood Bank ( Banco Namuncurá ), the Shag Rocks Black Rock, South Georgia, the Clerke Rocks, the South Sandwich Islands, the South Orkney Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. In the west it is bounded by the Drake Passage. In the northwest, the Argentine lake closes, and to the south the Weddell Sea. This island groups represent all the peaks of the Scotia Ridge, which limits the Scottish Sea to the north, east and south. The water surface area of ​​over 900,000 square kilometers was named in 1932 after the Scotia, the expedition ship which used the Scottish Antarctic Expedition 1902-1904 under William Speirs Bruce.

The most famous crossing this usually stormy and cold lake in 1916 by Sir Ernest Shackleton and four comrades in a customized lifeboat, the James Caird, accomplished as they left Elephant Iceland and two weeks later arrived in South Georgia.

About half of the lake is located on the continental shelf.

From Argentina, the Scottish lake as part of the Argentine Sea ( Spanish Mar Argentino ) is considered, and many of the claimed territories of Argentina as South Georgia and the Falkland Islands are located in this area.

On August 20, 2006, at 1:41 local time, there was an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the Richter scale. The precise location of the hypocenter was 61.011 ° S, 34.375 ° W at a depth of 10 km.

On November 17, 2013 it came to 10:04:55 UTC 1:00 in the range 60 296 ° S 46 362 ° W at a depth of 10km, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale.