Scotia Sea
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The Scotia Sea () is partly in the Southern Ocean and mostly in the Atlantic Ocean between Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands, the Antarctic Peninsula, and bordered on the west by Drake Passage . Named in about 1932 after the Scotia, the expedition ship used in these waters by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-04) under William S. Bruce.
Habitually stormy and cold, the most famous traverse of this frigid sea was made in 1916 by Sir Ernest Shackleton and four others in a lifeboat (named James Caird) when they left Elephant Island and reached South Georgia two weeks later.
[edit] 2006 earthquake
On 20 August 2006 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 struck at 1:41 a.m. local time (0341 GMT). The exact location was 61.011°S, 34.375°W at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles) with a USGS event ID of "usrqal".[1]
[edit] References
- ^ event "usrqal", according to the USGS
[edit] Further reading
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