Amundsen Sea

part of the Southern Ocean

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The Amundsen Sea is a body of water in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. It's an important area for scientists studying climate change and ocean conditions, as it contains rapidly melting ice shelves that affect global sea levels.

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The Amundsen Sea area of Antarctica Antarctic iceberg floating in the Amundsen Sea water, October 2009.

The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica. It lies between Cape Flying Fish (the northwestern tip of Thurston Island) to the east and Cape Dart on Siple Island to the west. Cape Flying Fish marks the boundary between the Amundsen Sea and the Bellingshausen Sea. West of Cape Dart there is no named marginal sea of the Southern Ocean between the Amundsen and Ross Seas. The Norwegian expedition of 1928–1929 under Captain Nils Larsen named the body of water for the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen while exploring this area in February 1929.

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