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Description:
The
Bellingshausen Sea
is an area along the west side of the
Antarctic Peninsula
, west of
Alexander Island
, east of
Cape Flying Fish
on
Thurston Island
, and south of
Peter I Island
(there the southern
Vostokkysten
). In the south are, from west to east,
Eights Coast
,
Bryan Coast
and
English Coast
(west part) of
West Antarctica
. To the west of Cape Flying Fish joins
Amundsen Sea
.
Bellingshausen Sea has an area of and reaches a maximum depth of .
It takes its name from
Admiral Thaddeus Bellingshausen
, who explored in the area in 1821.
In the late
Pliocene Epoch
, about 2.15 million years ago, the
Eltanin asteroid
impacted here. This is the only known impact in a
deep-ocean basin
in the world.
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Мора Бэлінгсгаўзэна
Bellingshausen Sea
Dagat Bellingshausen
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