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5 unusual facts about Weddell Sea


Charles Jacquinot

The mission of the expedition was to survey the Straights of Magellan, then head to the Weddell Sea.

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

The ship was beset and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea leaving the men stranded on the pack ice.

Luis Pardo

During the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in the ice of the Weddell Sea, in January 1915.

Pleurotomella enderbyensis

This species is distributed in the Antarctic waters along the Weddell Sea.

Weddell Sea

Otto Nordenskiöld, leader of the 1901-1904 Swedish Antarctic Expedition, spent a winter at Snow Hill with a team of four men when the relieve ship became beset in ice and was finally crushed.


Antarctic Petrel

The Antarctic Petrel (Thalassoica antarctica) is a boldly marked dark brown and white petrel, found in Antarctica, most commonly in the Ross and Weddell seas.


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Barquentine

Endurance, commanded by Sir Ernest Shackleton and crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–17.

Janet Stancomb-Wills

The Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue (75°0′S 22°0′W) is the extensive seaward projection of the Stancomb-Wills Glacier into the eastern Weddell Sea.

Personnel of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

All the Weddell Sea party were rescued, but several members of the Ross Sea party perished after their support ship Aurora broke free from its mooring and drifted, leaving the shore party stranded.

Weddell

James Weddell (1787–1834), English navigator and Antarctic explorer; eponym of Weddell Sea, Weddell Island, Weddell Glacier, and Weddell seal