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- Instance of
- sea
- Part of
- Southern Ocean
- Named after
- Mikhail Somov
- Continent
- Antarctica
- Area
- 1150000
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- vertical depth
- 3000
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Encyclopedic overview
The proposed Somov Sea name and other proposed names as part of the Southern Ocean Somov Sea (Russian: Море Сомова, romanized: More Somova, lit. 'Somov's Sea') was a proposed name for part of the Southern Ocean.
It would be located north of the easternmost part of the Antarctic subcontinent East Antarctica, north of Oates Coast, Victoria Land, and of George V Coast, between 150° and 170° East. West of it would be the D'Urville Sea. East of Cape Adare, at 170°14' East, is the Ross Sea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Somov Sea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.