Scotia Sea

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The Scotia Sea (57°30′ S 040°00′ W) is the portion of the Southern Ocean between Tierra del Fuego, the Antarctic Peninsula, and South Georgia. 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.