Bellingshausen Sea

sea along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula
Place marginal_sea Q183455
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Bellingshausen Sea

Summary

Bellingshausen Sea is a marginal sea[1]. It draws 40 Wikipedia views per month (marginal_sea category, ranking #20 of 27).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bellingshausen Sea is located in Antarctic Treaty area[3].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's image is recorded as Sea ice by fruchtzwerg's world.jpg[4].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's continent is recorded as Antarctica[5].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's instance of is recorded as marginal sea[6].
  • Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen is named after Bellingshausen Sea[7].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 247814378[8].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's GND ID is recorded as 4407858-4[9].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's locator map image is recorded as Bellingshausen Sea shaded and IHO proposal.svg[10].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh97006726[11].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's part of is recorded as Southern Ocean[12].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's Commons category is recorded as Bellingshausen Sea[13].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -71, 'lon': -85}[14].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/066cl0[15].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's GNIS Antarctica ID is recorded as 1199[16].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bellingshausen Sea[17].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10046657[18].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0008820[19].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's State Catalogue of Geographical Names is recorded as 5001772[20].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Bellingshausen-Sea[21].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's GeoNames ID is recorded as 4036628[22].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 1112252[23].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Bellingshausen Sea'}[24].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's SCAR Composite Gazetteer place ID is recorded as 1138[25].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Bellingshausenhavet[26].
  • Bellingshausen Sea's vertical depth is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+4470'}[27].

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Geography

Bellingshausen Sea is located in Antarctic Treaty area[3]. Its continent is recorded as Antarctica[5]. Its part of is recorded as Southern Ocean[12].

Designation and Status

Bellingshausen Sea's instance of is recorded as marginal sea[6].

History and Context

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen is named after Bellingshausen Sea[7].

Why It Matters

Bellingshausen Sea draws 40 Wikipedia views per month (marginal_sea category, ranking #20 of 27).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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