Antarctica

Weddell Sea

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 and the .
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  • Type: Sea
  • Description: part of the Southern Ocean between Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula
  • Also known as: “George IV Sea”

Weddell Sea

Latitude
-73° or 73° south
Longitude
-45° or 45° west
Open location code
28VQ2222+22
Geo­Names ID
4036624
Wiki­data ID
Q173343
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Weddell Sea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Weddellsee”
  • Arabic: “بحر ودل”
  • Arabic: “بحر ويدل”
  • Arabic: “بحر ويديل”
  • Armenian: “Ուեդդելի ծով”
  • Asturian: “Mar de Weddell”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ueddell dənizi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Veddell dənizi”
  • Bashkir: “Уэддел дингеҙ”
  • Bashkir: “Уэдделл диңгеҙе”
  • Basque: “Weddell itsasoa”
  • Belarusian: “Мора Уэдэла”
  • Belarusian: “Мора Ўэдэла”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েডেল সাগর”
  • Bosnian: “Weddellovo more”
  • Breton: “Mor Weddell”
  • Bulgarian: “Море Уедъл”
  • Bulgarian: “Уедъл”
  • Catalan: “mar de Weddell”
  • Catalan: “Mar de Weddell”
  • Cebuano: “Weddell Sea”
  • Chechen: “Уэдделлан хӀорд”
  • Chinese: “威德尔海”
  • Chinese: “威德爾海”
  • Chuvash: “Уэдделл тинĕсĕ”
  • Croatian: “Weddellovo more”
  • Czech: “moře krále Jiřího IV.”
  • Czech: “Weddellovo moře”
  • Danish: “Weddellhavet”
  • Dutch: “Weddellzee”
  • Dutch: “Weddelzee”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحر ودل”
  • Esperanto: “Maro de Weddell”
  • Esperanto: “Weddell-maro”
  • Estonian: “Weddelli meri”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Weddell Samundar”
  • Finnish: “Weddellinmeri”
  • French: “mer de Weddell”
  • French: “Mer de Weddell”
  • Galician: “Mar de Weddell”
  • Georgian: “უედელის ზღვა”
  • German: “Weddell Sea”
  • German: “Weddell-Meer”
  • German: “Weddell-See”
  • German: “Weddellmeer”
  • German: “Weddellsee”
  • German: “Wedellmeer”
  • German: “Wedellsee”
  • Greek: “Θάλασσα Γουέντελ”
  • Hebrew: “ים ודל”
  • Hebrew: “ים וודל”
  • Hindi: “वेडेल सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Weddell-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Weddell-haf”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Weddell”
  • Italian: “Mar di Weddel”
  • Italian: “Mare di Weddell”
  • Italian: “Mare Weddell”
  • Italian: “Weddell Sea”
  • Japanese: “ウェッデル海”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Уэдделлни тенгизи”
  • Kirghiz: “Уэдделл деңизи”
  • Korean: “웨델 해”
  • Korean: “웨들해”
  • Latin: “Mare Weddellianum”
  • Latvian: “Vedela jūra”
  • Latvian: “Vedella jūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Vedelio jūra”
  • Low German: “Weddellsee”
  • Macedonian: “Веделово Море”
  • Malay: “Laut Weddell”
  • Manx: “Mooir Horys IV”
  • Manx: “Mooir Weddell”
  • Mingrelian: “უედელიშ ზუღა”
  • Nepali: “वेडेल सागर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Weddelhavet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Weddellhavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Weddellhavet”
  • Norwegian: “Weddellhavet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mar de Weddell”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੈਡਲ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “دریای ودل”
  • Polish: “Morze Weddela”
  • Polish: “Morze Weddella”
  • Portuguese: “Mar de Weddell”
  • Portuguese: “Weddell Sea”
  • Romanian: “Marea Weddell”
  • Russian: “Ведделя море”
  • Russian: “Море Уэддела”
  • Russian: “Море Уэдделла”
  • Russian: “Уедделя море”
  • Russian: “Уэдделла море”
  • Scots: “Weddell Sea”
  • Serbian: “Vedelovo more”
  • Serbian: “Веделово море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vedelovo more”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Weddellovo more”
  • Sindhi: “ويڊل سمنڊ”
  • Slovak: “Weddellovo more”
  • Slovenian: “Weddllovo morje”
  • Spanish: “mar de Weddell”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Weddell”
  • Spanish: “Weddell Sea”
  • Spanish: “Weddell, mar de”
  • Spanish: “Weddell, Mar”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Weddell”
  • Swedish: “Weddell Sea”
  • Swedish: “Weddellhavet”
  • Swedish: “Wedellhavet”
  • Tamil: “வெட்டல் கடல்”
  • Turkish: “Weddell Denizi”
  • Ukrainian: “Ведделла море”
  • Ukrainian: “Море Ведделла”
  • Ukrainian: “Море Георга IV”
  • Ukrainian: “Море Уедделла”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ ودل”
  • Uzbek: “Ueddell dengizi”
  • Uzbek: “Weddell dengizi”
  • Venetian: “Mar de Weddell”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Weddell”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Weddell”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Weddell Sea”
  • Western Frisian: “Weddellsee”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویڈل سمندر”
  • Wu Chinese: “威德尔海”
  • Yue Chinese: “威德爾海”

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