The Bellingshausen Sea (71°00′S 085°00′W) is an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula between Alexander Island and Thurston Island. Antarctic Peninsula map Booth Island and Mount Scott flank the narrow Lemaire Channel on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. ... Alexander Island shown within Antarctica For the Canadian arctic island see Alexander Island, Nunavut. ... Location of Thurston Island Thurston Island (72°06′ S 99°00′ W) is an ice-covered, glacially dissected island, 215 km long, 90 km wide and 15,700 km² in area, lying a short way off the NW end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. ...
It takes its name from AdmiralThaddeus Bellingshausen, who explored in the area in 1821. Admiral is a word from the Arabic term Amir-al-bahr (commander of the sea). ... Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen (Russian: ; Faddey Faddeyevich Bellinsgauzen) (September 20, 1778–January 13, 1852) served as a naval officer of the Russian Empire and commanded the second Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. ...
It is separated from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the east by Sardinia and Corsica and abuts the Alboran Sea to the west.
It is mostly underlain by a small trough extending to the west of the Flores Trough and is bound by sills to the south (the 200 m Bali Strait and the 220 m Lombok Strait) and by a narrow, 600 m deep passage connecting it to the Makassar Stait to the north.
The Bismarck Sea is bounded to the southwest by New Guinea and to the north, east, and south by the Bismarck Archipelago.
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