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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A sea of the southern Atlantic Ocean off western Antarctica east of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is named for James Weddell (1787–1834), a British navigator.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an arm of the south Atlantic in Antarctica to the east of the Antarctic Peninsula
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The story also offers encouragement: No matter how bored you are during your department's next seminar, at least you aren't being attacked by a sea leopard while clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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The story also offers encouragement: No matter how bored you are during your department's next seminar, at least you aren't being attacked by a sea leopard while clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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The story also offers encouragement: No matter how bored you are during your department's next seminar, at least you aren't being attacked by a sea leopard while clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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The story also offers encouragement: No matter how bored you are during your department's next seminar, at least you aren't being attacked by a sea leopard while clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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The story also offers encouragement: No matter how bored you are during your department's next seminar, at least you aren't being attacked by a sea leopard while clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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The story also offers encouragement: No matter how bored you are during your department's next seminar, at least you aren't being attacked by a sea leopard while clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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The story also offers encouragement: No matter how bored you are during your department's next seminar, at least you aren't being attacked by a sea leopard while clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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The story also offers encouragement: No matter how bored you are during your department's next seminar, at least you aren't being attacked by a sea leopard while clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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The story also offers encouragement: No matter how bored you are during your department's next seminar, at least you aren't being attacked by a sea leopard while clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea.
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These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.
The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim 2009
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