Weddell Sea

The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha Coast, Queen Maud Land. To the east of Cape Norvegia is the King Haakon VII Sea. Much of the southern part of the sea is covered by a permanent, massive ice shelf field, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. The sea is contained within the two overlapping Antarctic territorial claims of Argentine Antarctica, the British Antarctic Territory, and also resides partially within the Antarctic Chilean Territory. At its widest the sea is around 2,000 kilometres across, and its area is around 2.8 million square kilometres. Various ice shelves, including the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, fringe the Weddell sea.

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Largest fish nursery discovered beneath Weddell Sea in Antarctica

ESA's Sentinel-1 satellite recently spotted the world’s largest iceberg - around 170 km in length and 25 km wide (~4320 sq km), which has calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf (Weddell Sea in Antarctica).