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South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Scotia Sea

The Scotia Sea is a located at the northern edge of the Southern Ocean at its boundary with the South Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Drake Passage and on the north, east, and south by the Scotia Arc, an undersea ridge and island arc system supporting various islands.
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  • Type: Sea
  • Description: sea
  • Also known as: “Südantillen See”

Scotia Sea

Latitude
-57.68072° or 57° 40′ 51″ south
Longitude
-41.57098° or 41° 34′ 16″ west
Open location code
38JW8C9H+PJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305639392
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­sea
Geo­Names ID
3426293
Wiki­data ID
Q204703
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Satellite Map

Discover Scotia Sea from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Scotia Sea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Scotiasee”
  • Arabic: “بح سكوتيا”
  • Arabic: “بحر سكوتيا”
  • Arabic: “بحر سكوشيا”
  • Armenian: “Սկոշա”
  • Asturian: “mar de Scotia”
  • Asturian: “Mar de Scotia”
  • Asturian: “mar del Scotia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Skotia dənizi”
  • Bashkir: “Скоша диңгеҙе”
  • Basque: “Scotia itsasoa”
  • Belarusian: “Мора Скоша”
  • Bengali: “স্কশিয়া সাগর”
  • Bosnian: “Scotia more”
  • Breton: “Mor Scotia”
  • Bulgarian: “Скотия”
  • Catalan: “mar de Scotia”
  • Catalan: “Mar de Scotia”
  • Catalan: “mar Scotia”
  • Cebuano: “Scotia Sea (dagat sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
  • Cebuano: “Scotia Sea”
  • Chechen: “Скошан хӀорд”
  • Chinese: “斯科舍海”
  • Chuvash: “Скош тинĕсĕ”
  • Croatian: “More Scotia”
  • Croatian: “Scotia more”
  • Czech: “moře Scotia”
  • Czech: “Moře Scotia”
  • Czech: “Skotské moře”
  • Danish: “Scotiahavet”
  • Dutch: “Scotiazee”
  • Esperanto: “Skotia Maro”
  • Esperanto: “Skotiŝipa Maro”
  • Estonian: “Scotia meri”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Scotia Samundar”
  • Finnish: “Scotianmeri”
  • Finnish: “Skotianmeri”
  • French: “mer de la Scotia”
  • French: “Mer de Scotia”
  • French: “Mer De Scotia”
  • Galician: “Mar de Scotia”
  • Georgian: “სკოტიის ზღვა”
  • Georgian: “სკოშის ზღვა”
  • German: “Schottische See”
  • German: “Scotia Sea”
  • German: “Scotiasee”
  • Greek: “Θάλασσα της Σκωτίας”
  • Hausa: “Tekun scotia”
  • Hebrew: “ים סקוטיה”
  • Hindi: “स्कोशिया सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Scotia-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Scotia-haf”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Scotia”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Skotia”
  • Italian: “Mar di Scotia”
  • Italian: “Mare di Scotia”
  • Japanese: “スコシア海”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Скошну тенгизи”
  • Kazakh: “Скоша”
  • Korean: “스코샤 해”
  • Korean: “스코샤해”
  • Korean: “스코티아 해”
  • Latin: “Mare Scotianum”
  • Latvian: “Skotijas jūra”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mar Scotia”
  • Lithuanian: “Skotijos jūra”
  • Low German: “Scotiasee”
  • Luxembourgish: “Scotia Mier”
  • Luxembourgish: “Scotia Sea”
  • Luxembourgish: “Scotiamier”
  • Macedonian: “Скотиско Море”
  • Macedonian: “Скоша”
  • Malay: “Laut Scotia”
  • Malayalam: “സ്കോട്ടിയ കടൽ”
  • Mingrelian: “სკოშიშ ზუღა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Scotiahavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Scotiahavet”
  • Norwegian: “Scotiahavet”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਕੋਸ਼ੀਆ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “دریای اسکوشیا”
  • Polish: “Morze Scotia”
  • Portuguese: “Mar de Scotia”
  • Russian: “Море Скоша”
  • Russian: “Скоша”
  • Serbian: “Море Скоша”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Skošansko more”
  • Slovak: “Scotijské more”
  • Slovenian: “Škotsko morje”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسکوتیا دنیزی”
  • Spanish: “mar de las Antillas Australes”
  • Spanish: “mar de las Antillas del Sur”
  • Spanish: “mar de Scotia”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Scotia”
  • Spanish: “mar del Scotia”
  • Spanish: “Mar del Scotia”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Scotia”
  • Swedish: “Scotiahavet”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்கோடியா கடல்”
  • Turkish: “Scotia Denizi”
  • Ukrainian: “Море Скоша”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ سکوٹیا”
  • Venetian: “Mar del Scòtia”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Scotia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Scotia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Scotia Sea”
  • Western Frisian: “Scotiasee”
  • Western Frisian: “Skotiasee”
  • Western Panjabi: “سکوٹیا سمندر”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯科舍海”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯科舍海”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Scotia Sea”. Photo: Antarctic96, CC BY-SA 3.0.