Somov Sea

- 67160Koordinaten: 67 ° S, 160 ° E

The Somov Sea is a marginal sea of the Southern Ocean and is located in the north of the Antarctic subcontinent Ostantarktika, north of Oates Coast, Victoria Land, and the George V Coast, between 150 ° and 170 ° East. To the west is the D' Urville Sea. East of Cape Adare at 170 ° 14 'East already the Ross Sea begins.

The Somov Lake has an area of ​​1.15 million km ² and is up to 3,000 meters deep.

240 km north of the mainland coast are the Balleny Islands in the Somov Sea.

The Somov Lake was named in honor of the Russian oceanographer and Arctic explorer Mikhail Mikhailovich Somov so.