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  2. Weddell seal - Wikipedia

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    Description. Skull. Weddell seals measure about 2.5–3.5 m (8 ft 2 in – 11 ft 6 in) long and weigh 400–600 kg (880–1,320 lb). [5][6] They are amongst the largest seals, with a rather bulky body and short fore flippers relative to their body length. [7] Males weigh less than females, usually about 500 kg (1,100 lb) or less.

  3. Ribbon seal - Wikipedia

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    Ribbon seal. The ribbon seal (Histriophoca fasciata) is a medium-sized pinniped from the true seal family (Phocidae). A seasonally ice-bound species, it is found in the Arctic and Subarctic regions of the North Pacific Ocean, notably in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. It is distinguished by its striking coloration, with two wide white strips ...

  4. James Weddell - Wikipedia

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    Weddell in 1828. James Weddell FRSE (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle —and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.

  5. North-west White Island Antarctic Specially Protected Area

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    Weddell seal. The North-west White Island Antarctic Specially Protected Area comprises a 142 km 2 area of coastal shelf ice on the north-west side of White Island in the Ross Archipelago of Antarctica.The site has been designated an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 137) because it supports an unusual small breeding population of Weddell seals, which is not only the most southerly known ...

  6. Endurance (1912 ship) - Wikipedia

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    Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. When one of her commissioners, the Belgian Adrien de ...

  7. Weddell Sea Bottom Water - Wikipedia

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    Weddell Sea Bottom Water. Weddell Sea Bottom Water (WSBW) is a subset of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) that is at a temperature of -0.7 °C or colder. It consists of a higher salinity branch and a lower salinity branch. It originates in the Weddell Sea and closely follows the sea floor as it flows out into the rest of the world's oceans.

  8. Weddell Sea - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Erebus Glacier Tongue - Wikipedia

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    Images revealed rocks and dead fish frozen into the ice. Video also depicted other Weddell seals that appeared to use the underwater caves as hiding places from predators such as the orca (or killer whale) and the leopard seal. [8] Weddell seals are commonly sighted by visitors to the Erebus Glacier Tongue. Each year 300 to 400 Weddell seal ...

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