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The '''Bellingshausen Sea''' is an area along the west side of the [[Antarctic Peninsula]] between 57°18'W and 102°20'W, west of [[Alexander Island]], east of [[Cape Flying Fish]] on [[Thurston Island]], and south of [[Peter I Island]] (there the southern ''Vostokkysten'').<ref>[http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=107742 Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Antarctic Gazetteer: Bellingshausen Sea]</ref> In the south are, from west to east, [[Eights Coast]], [[Bryan Coast]] and [[English Coast]] (west part) of [[West Antarctica]]. To the west of Cape Flying Fish joins [[Amundsen Sea]].

Bellingshausen Sea has an area of {{convert|487,000|km2|abbr=on}} and reaches a maximum depth of {{convert|44704.5|mkm|sp=us}}.<ref>[http://ostranah.com/lists/sea.php?id=18 Gazetteer «About countries»: Bellingshausen (sea)]</ref>

It takes its name from [[Admiral Thaddeus Bellingshausen]], who explored in the area in 1821.

In the late [[Pliocene Epoch]], about 2.15 million years ago, the [[Eltanin asteroid]] (about 1-4 km in diameter) impacted here. This is the only known impact in a [[deep ocean|deep-ocean basin]] in the world.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gersonde |first=Rainer |author2=F. T. Kyte |author3=T. Frederichs |author4=U. Bleil |author5=H.-W. Schenke |author6=G. Kuhn |year=2005 |title=The late Pliocene impact of the Eltanin asteroid into the Southern Ocean – Documentation and environmental consequences |journal=Geophysical Research Abstracts |volume=7 |id=1607-7962/gra/EGU05-A-02449 |url=http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU05/02449/EGU05-J-02449.pdf |accessdate=2008-06-22}}</ref>

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