Amundsen Sea

American  

noun

1. an arm of the S Pacific Ocean, in W Antarctica, off the coast of Marie Byrd Land.

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Amundsen Sea British  

/ ˈɑːmʊndsən /

noun

1. a part of the South Pacific Ocean, in Antarctica off Byrd Land

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Example Sentences

Finally, oxygen isotopes in the ice are a well-established temperature proxy and could provide the first 20th century temperature record for the Amundsen Sea region.

From Science Magazine

He was there because of what lay some 130 kilometers away, across a bay from Canisteo: the gargantuan rivers of ice known as the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, which jut into the Amundsen Sea as frozen shelves tens of kilometers wide.

From Science Magazine

In 2020, Neff published a paper in Oceanography laying out a plan for an array of cores drilled on ice rises from the Ross Sea to the Amundsen Sea that he hoped could shine a light on Thwaites’s recent past.

From Science Magazine

This mechanism contributes substantially to the melting of ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica.

From Science Daily

Until now, it has been believed that intensified westerly winds north of the Amundsen Sea propelled ocean currents along the shelf break, carrying warmer water toward ice shelf cavities.

From Science Daily