The Scotia Sea ( 57°30′ S 040°00′ W (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=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. The Southern Ocean is the body of water encircling the continent of Antarctica. ... Booth Island and Mount Scott flank the narrow Lemaire Channel on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. ... South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, also claimed by Argentina. ...
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. Ernest Henry Shackleton The Discovery During the Discovery expedition, Shackleton made the first balloon flight over Antarctica Four men from Nimrod (left to right): Frank Wild, Shackleton, Eric Marshall, and Jameson Adams Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (February 15, 1874 – January 5, 1922) was an Irish-born explorer, now chiefly remembered... Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean. ...
Nova Scotia is renowned for its varied scenery, from the lush orchard country of Annapolis Valley to the rocky shores of Peggy’s Cove on the Atlantic Coast.
Nova Scotia is represented in the Canadian Parliament by 11 elected representatives in the House of Commons and by 10 senators, appointed by the federal government, in the Senate.
During the 1970s coal mining in Nova Scotia expanded, driven in part by the global energy crisis, and provincial funds were used to build an industrial park on the Strait of Canso and to modernize the port at Halifax.
Scotia was originally the Latin name for Ireland (also known to the Romans as Hibernia).
In this way, the usage of the word Scotia in the Middle Ages might be compared with the 21st century usage of the word Gaidhealtachd.
The term is also used in a Canadian province named Nova Scotia (New Scotland); the village of Scotia in New York State, the ScotiaSea between Antarctica and South America, and in Scotiabank, a trade name for the Bank of Nova Scotia.
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