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 ). The Bellingshausen Sea borders the Eights Coast , the Bryan Coast , and the west part of the English Coast . To the west of Cape Flying Fish it joins the Amundsen Sea .
2-563: Bellingshausen Sea has an area of 487,000 km (188,000 sq mi) and reaches a maximum depth of 4.5 kilometers (2.8 mi). It contains the undersea plain Bellingshausen Plain . The Antarctic Slope Current (ASC) is thought to originate in the Bellingshausen Sea as the result of a density front at the shelf break, rather than being wind-driven. It takes its name from Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen , who explored in
4-777: The area in 1821. In the early Pleistocene Epoch , about 2.15 million years ago, the Eltanin asteroid (about 1-4 km in diameter) impacted at the edge of the Bellingshausen sea (at the Southern Ocean ). This is the only known impact in a deep-ocean basin in the world. 71°S 85°W / 71°S 85°W / -71; -85 Bellingshausen Plain Bellingshausen Plain ( 64°0′S 90°0′W / 64.000°S 90.000°W / -64.000; -90.000 ), also known as Bellinghausen Abyssal Plain ,
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