A sea of the Southern Ocean off the coast of Antarctica, named for the British sealer and explorer James Weddell. It carries some of the coldest, densest surface water on Earth and plays a major role in feeding the global deep ocean circulation.
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Source Weddell Sea - Wikipedia
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1. Weddell Sea - Wikipedia
Infobox, area
2,800,000 km2 sqmi -2
Infobox, max_depth
5148 m ft 0
Infobox, coordinates (latitude)
73 S 45 W
Infobox, coordinates (longitude)
73 S 45 W
Shaped By: Plate Tectonics, Formation statement for target 23636
In southern Patagonia at the onset of the Andean orogeny in the Jurassic extensional tectonics created the Rocas Verdes Basin, a back-arc basin whose surviving southeastward extension forms the Weddell Sea.
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