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Amundsen Sea

noun

  1. an arm of the S Pacific Ocean, in W Antarctica, off the coast of Marie Byrd Land.


Amundsen Sea

/ ˈɑːmʊndsən /

noun

  1. a part of the South Pacific Ocean, in Antarctica off Byrd Land
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

He was there because of what lay some 130 kilometers away, across a bay from Canisteo: the gargantuan rivers of ice known as the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, which jut into the Amundsen Sea as frozen shelves tens of kilometers wide.

In 2020, Neff published a paper in Oceanography laying out a plan for an array of cores drilled on ice rises from the Ross Sea to the Amundsen Sea that he hoped could shine a light on Thwaites’s recent past.

Ship time was suddenly available: KOPRI’s collaboration with Russian researchers on a voyage of the Araon to the Amundsen Sea had been canceled after the invasion of Ukraine.

Finally, oxygen isotopes in the ice are a well-established temperature proxy and could provide the first 20th century temperature record for the Amundsen Sea region.

This mechanism contributes substantially to the melting of ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica.

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