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 a place to explore it |
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Ross Sea
- Type: Sea
- Description: deep sea of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ross Sea” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rosssee”
- 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”
- Fiji Hindi: “Ross Samundar”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Tekun Ross”
- 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”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Россну тенгизи”
- Kirghiz: “Росс деңизи”
- Korean: “로스해”
- Korean: “로쓰 해”
- Korean: “로쓰해”
- Latin: “Mare Ross”
- Latin: “Mare Rossianum”
- Latvian: “Rosa jūra”
- Lithuanian: “Roso jūra”
- Low German: “Rosssee”
- Macedonian: “Росово Море”
- Malay: “Laut Ross”
- Malayalam: “റോസ് കടൽ”
- Mingrelian: “როსიშ ზუღა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rosshavet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rosshavet”
- Norwegian: “Rosshavet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mar de Ross”
- Panjabi: “ਰੌਸ ਸਾਗਰ”
- 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 de Ross”
- Spanish: “mar 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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