Ross Sea

deep sea of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica
SeaBodyOfWater sea Q164466
Ross Sea
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Ross Sea

Summary

Ross Sea is a sea[1]. It draws 166 Wikipedia views per month (sea category, ranking #32 of 101).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ross Sea is located in Antarctic Treaty area[3].
  • Ross Sea's image is recorded as NOAA Ross sea.jpg[4].
  • Ross Sea's continent is recorded as Antarctica[5].
  • Ross Sea's instance of is recorded as sea[6].
  • Ross Sea's shares border with is recorded as Victoria Land[7].
  • Ross Sea's inflows is recorded as Alph River[8].
  • Ross Sea's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 234662635[9].
  • Ross Sea's GND ID is recorded as 4219455-6[10].
  • Ross Sea's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh87001101[11].
  • Ross Sea's IdRef ID is recorded as 05656466X[12].
  • Ross Sea's part of is recorded as Southern Ocean[13].
  • Ross Sea's Commons category is recorded as Ross Sea[14].
  • Ross Sea's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 9359803[15].
  • Ross Sea's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -75, 'lon': -175}[16].
  • Ross Sea's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/015fm9[17].
  • Ross Sea's located in/on physical feature is recorded as Southern Ocean[18].
  • Ross Sea's GNIS Antarctica ID is recorded as 12933[19].
  • Ross Sea's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ross Sea[20].
  • Ross Sea's page banner is recorded as Ross Sea-banner1.jpg[21].
  • Ross Sea's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10038097[22].
  • Ross Sea's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0056894[23].
  • Ross Sea's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Ross-Sea[24].
  • Ross Sea's GeoNames ID is recorded as 4036625[25].
  • Ross Sea's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 1112305[26].
  • Ross Sea's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+637000'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Ross Sea include Ross Gyre[28], an ocean gyre[29].

Why It Matters

Ross Sea draws 166 Wikipedia views per month (sea category, ranking #32 of 101).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for it include Ross Gyre[28], an ocean gyre[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . 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] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb /static/img/ross-sea.jpg
    Located in the administrative territorial entity Antarctic Treaty area
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