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Wed·dell Sea (wə del′, wed′əl)

section of the Atlantic east of the Antarctic Peninsula

Etymology: after James Weddell (1787-1834), Brit whaler who discovered it (1823)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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