Ross Sea

(Placename) a large arm of the S Pacific in Antarctica, incorporating the Ross Ice Shelf and lying between Victoria Land and the Edward VII Peninsula

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Ross′ Sea′

an arm of the Antarctic Ocean, S of New Zealand, extending into Antarctica.

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Ross Sea - an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean in Antarctica

Antarctic continent, Antarctica - an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep; "Antarctica is twice the size of Australia"

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Mr Pugh, whose mother is from Merthyr Tydfil and whose father's family come from Aberystwyth, has completed the most southerly swim ever undertaken, wearing just Speedos in water temperatures of minus 1.7C (29F), as part of a series of five swims to raise awareness of the need for a vast protected area in the Antarctic's Ross Sea.

'I've never felt pain like that before' So, Lewis, exactly how did it feel to go swimming in the Antarctic?

Captain Ronnie Maclean's groundbreaking voyage to the Ross Sea has now been officially recognised in the Guinness Book of Records.

LOW AND BEHOLD; RECORD SHIP'S ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE Scots skipper Ronnie navigates to most southern point ever reached by a boat Scots skipper Ronnie

28 ( ANI ): Researchers using a modeling study have suggested that the Antarctica's Ross Sea's recent observed increase in summer sea-ice cover is likely to be short-lived, with the area projected to lose more than half its summer sea ice by 2050 and more than three quarters by 2100.

Projected big thaw of Antarctica's sea ice may harm area's unspoiled marine ecosystems

The second, covering the Ross Sea, was proposed by the United States and New Zealand.

EU/ANTARCTIC : UNION TO DEFEND ESTABLISHMENT OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS

The plan for a 1.6 million square kilometre (640,000 square mile) fishing-free haven in the Ross Sea, supported by the US, was knocked back after Moscow raised objections at an international meeting in July.

New Zealand re-examines ambitious Antarctic plans

There are two proposals on the table: one concerns the creation of a marine protected area (MPA) in the Ross Sea in the South-West Antarctic and the other would set up a network of seven MPAs in East Antarctica.

ENVIRONMENT : RUSSIA BLOCKS CREATION OF ANTARCTIC MARINE PROTECTED AREA

Washington, DC, May 24, 2012 --(PR.com)-- To honor the centenary of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, a team of five has been selected to traverse the Antarctic continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea via the South Pole.

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Centenary Expedition 2014

1958: A British team led by Vivian Fuchs completed the first Antarctic crossing, 2,158 miles from Weddell Sea to Ross Sea in 99 days.

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Ross Sea scientists, the primary region for the Antarctic toothfish fishery, have formally pleaded to the Antarctic managing body to stop the fishery.

The most remote fishery on earth: over-fishing worldwide has driven fishers to the unique Ross Sea in Antarctica in pursuit of toothfish, a fish previously only deemed worthy by a handful of polar scientists, writes marine scientist Cassandra Brooks. Should we be fishing in Antarctica which is designated a place of peace, to be protected from exploitation?

He describes the first operations in the Ross Sea region, discoveries and advances made in science, the expansion of the program to include international cooperation, the environmental findings, and the use of the Base as a proving ground for young scientists.

Call of the ice; fifty years of New Zealand in Antarctica