Bellingshausen Sea
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Bellingshausen Sea
named after Fabian Gottlieb Bellingshausen (1778–1852), Russian explorer
Example Sentences
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Four of the five breeding sites near the Bellingshausen Sea studied likely had zero chicks that survived the breeding season.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2023
Researchers used satellite imagery to look at breeding colonies in a region near Antarctica’s Bellingshausen Sea.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Around the Bellingshausen Sea in late 2022, images captured by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite looked very wrong.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2023
Four out of five emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica’s Bellingshausen Sea region very likely lost their chicks late last year because of disappearing sea ice underneath their breeding grounds, according to a new study.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
The colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea —about 10,000 breeding pairs in total—represent just a small fraction of the total population, thought to be more than 250,000 breeding pairs.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 23, 2023
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