Scotia Lake

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The Scotia Sea
Approximate location in the southern hemisphere
Departure of James Caird from the coast of Elephant Iceland on April 24, 1916

The Scotia Sea or Südantillensee ( English Scotia Sea, Spanish Mar del Scotia) lies partly in the Southern Ocean , and particularly in the Atlantic Ocean between Tierra del Fuego (there Miter Peninsula ), the Isla de los Estados , the Burdwood Bank ( Banco Namuncurá ), the Shag Rocks , Black Rock, South Georgia , Clerke Rocks , the South Sandwich Islands , the South Orkney Islands and the South Shetland Islands . In the west it is bordered by the Drake Passage . The Argentine Sea joins in the northwest , and the Weddell Sea in the south . These archipelagos represent all the peaks of the Scotia Ridge , which borders the Scotia Sea to the north, east and south. For these geologists dominated Eduard Suess and Otto Nordenskjöld in analogy to the Caribbean island arc of the Antilles the term Southern Antilles ( Southern Antilles ). The water area of ​​over 900,000 km² was named in 1932 after the Scotia , the expedition ship that the Scottish Antarctic Expedition used from 1902 to 1904 under William Speirs Bruce .

The most famous crossing of this usually stormy and cold sea was accomplished in 1916 by Sir Ernest Shackleton and four comrades in an adapted lifeboat, the James Caird , when they left Elephant Island and arrived in South Georgia two weeks later .

About half of the sea lies above the continental shelf .

From Argentina , the Scotia Sea is considered part of the Argentine Sea ( Spanish Mar Argentino ), and many of the areas claimed by Argentina, such as South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, are in this area.

On August 20, 2006 there was an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale at 1:41 am local time . The exact location of the hypocenter was 61 ° 1 ′  S , 34 ° 23 ′  W at a depth of 10 km.

On November 17, 2013 at 10:04:55 UTC + 1: 00 in the area 60 ° 18 ′  S , 46 ° 22 ′  W at a depth of 10 km, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale occurred.

literature

  • PF Barker and DH Griffiths: The Evolution of the Scotia Ridge and Scotia Sea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 271, No. 1213, A Discussion on Volcanism and the Structure of the Earth (Jan. 27, 1972), pp. 151-183.

Web links

Commons : Scotiasee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geonames entry Südantillensee / Scotia Sea .
  2. ↑ The oceans as a future space. (= TERRA teachers' band upper level). Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-12-104147-3 . (Suggested solutions)
  3. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, Scotia Sea , accessed October 28, 2016

Coordinates: 57 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 40 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.