Ross Sea
The Ross Sea in Antarctica is the world's most southerly sea. It's ice-bound for much of the year, but at the height of summer ships can cautiously enter.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Photo: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0.
Ross Sea
- Type: Sea
- Description: deep sea of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude of centre
-75° or 75° southLongitude of centre
-175° or 175° westGeoNames ID
4036625Wikidata ID
Q164466Ross Sea Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Rosssee
- Arabic: Dagat Ross
- Arabic: بحر روس
- Armenian: Ռոսսի ծով
- Asturian: Mar de Ross
- Azerbaijani: Ross dənizi
- Balinese: Segara Ross
- Bashkir: Росс диңгеҙе
- Basque: Ross itsasoa
- Belarusian: Мора Роса
- Bengali: রস সাগর
- Bosnian: Rossovo more
- Breton: Mor Ross
- Bulgarian: Море Рос
- Bulgarian: Рос
- Catalan: Mar de Ross
- Catalan: mar de Ross
- Cebuano: Ross Sea
- Chechen: Россан хӀорд
- Chinese: 罗斯海
- Chinese: 羅斯海
- Chuvash: Росс тинĕсĕ
- Croatian: Rossovo more
- Czech: Rossovo moře
- Danish: Rosshavet
- Dutch: Ross-zee
- Dutch: Ross zee
- Dutch: Rosszee
- Egyptian Arabic: بحر روس
- Esperanto: Maro de Ross
- Esperanto: Ross-Maro
- Estonian: Rossi meri
- Finnish: Rossinmeri
- French: Mer de Ross
- French: mer de Ross
- Galician: Mar de Ross
- Georgian: როსის ზღვა
- German: Ross-Meer
- German: Ross-See
- German: Rossmeer
- Greek: Θάλασσα Ρος
- Hebrew: ים רוס
- Hindi: रॉस सागर
- Hungarian: Ross-tenger
- Icelandic: Rosshaf
- Iloko: Baybay Ross
- Indonesian: Laut Ross
- Italian: Mare di Ross
- Japanese: ロス海
- Kirghiz: Росс деңизи
- Korean: 로스해
- Korean: 로쓰해
- Korean: 로쓰 해
- Lao: Baybay Ross
- Latin: Mare Ross
- Latin: Mare Rossianum
- Latvian: Rosa jūra
- Lithuanian: Roso jūra
- Macedonian: Росово Море
- Malay: Laut Ross
- Malayalam: റോസ് കടൽ
- Mingrelian: როსიშ ზუღა
- Norwegian: Rosshavet
- Norwegian Bokmål: Rosshavet
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Rosshavet
- Occitan (post 1500): Mar de Ross
- Persian: خلیج عقبه
- Persian: دریای راس
- Polish: Morze Rossa
- Portuguese: Mar de Ross
- Romanian: Marea Ross
- Russian: Море Росса
- Russian: Росса море
- Serbian: Rosovo more
- Serbian: Росово море
- Serbo-Croatian: Rosovo more
- Serbo-Croatian: Rossovo more
- Slovak: Rossovo more
- Slovenian: Rossovo morje
- Spanish: Mar de Ross
- Spanish: mar Ross
- Spanish: mar de Ross
- Swahili: Bahari ya Ross
- Swedish: Ross Sea
- Swedish: Rosshavet
- Tagalog: Dagat Ross
- Tamil: ரோஸ் கடல்
- Tatar: Росс диңгезе
- Thai: Ross Sea
- Thai: ทะเลรอส
- Thai: ทะเลรอสส์
- Turkish: Ross Denizi
- Ukrainian: Море Росса
- Ukrainian: Росса море
- Urdu: بحیرہ راس
- Uzbek: Ross dengizi
- Venetian: Mar de Ross
- Vietnamese: Biển Ross
- Waray (Philippines): Dagat Ross
- Waray (Philippines): Ross Sea
- Western Frisian: Ross-see
- Western Frisian: Ross See
- Wu Chinese: 羅斯海
- Yue Chinese: 羅斯海
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Ross Sea. Photo: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0.