The sea of Ross is a deep bay of the Antarctic Ocean bordering the continent the Antarctic between the Ground Marie Byrd in the east and the Ground of Victoria in the west.
Geography
The southern half of the sea of Ross (approximately 500.000 km ²) is occupied by the Barrière of Ross, a thick layer of permanent ice source of many Iceberg S, on approximately 600 km of depth. In the west is the island of Ross, dominated by the volcanos Erebus and Terror. At the east, the island Roosevelt is located in the Baie of the Whales.
In the west of the sea of Ross, the Détroit of McMurdo, separating the continent from the volcanic island of Ross, is generally free ices lasting the summer, which made of it an important place for the scientific research. The southernmost part of the sea of Ross is the Côte Gould, distant of approximately 300 km of the South pole.
Islands
The sea of Ross includes/understands (inter alia) the following islands:- island Black
- island Carney
- island Coulman
- island Roosevelt
- island of Ross
- island White
Fauna
A third of the world population of the penguins Adélie saw where the barrier of Ross is transformed into iceberg. The currents maintain in a permanent way of the great free stretches of water of ice, the Polynie S, which make it possible the Adélie penguins to live. The microalgae multiply in the polynies thanks to the sun and nourish the Krill which itself constitutes the food independent source of the penguins.
A colossal Squid long of 10 bills of quantities and weighing 450 kilograms, the largest specimen ever recovered, was fished at sea of Ross in February 2007.
Policy
All the emerged grounds of the sea of Ross are asserted like parts of the sector New Zealand. As the remainder of the continent however, they fall under the Traité on the Antarctic and this claim is not currently recognized.
History
The sea of Ross was discovered in 1841 by the explorer James Clark Ross. In 1911, Roald Amundsen began its forwarding towards the south pole starting from bay from the Whales.
See too
Related articles
External bond
- '' Geology off the Ross Sea area ''
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