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maritime region
Close ✕Weddell Sea
The large embayment of the Southern Ocean south of the South Atlantic, bounded by the Antarctic Peninsula to the west and Coats Land to the east, and the single largest source of Antarctic…
-72.0, -45.0 · approximate · permanent feature; bottom-water volume decline measured since 1992
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- A place in: Ocean Currents · 3 places
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Connections
- is originates in of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) — The Weddell Sea is the largest of the four shelf regions where brine rejection makes water dense enough to reach the abyss.
- part of Southern Ocean — The Weddell Sea is the Atlantic-sector embayment of the Southern Ocean.
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