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Anyway this turns only absurd if it referred to the exact pole, geographic or magnetic, but not from the continent as is.
Just in the South of the Arctic
But they aren't wrong
Are kids today so Vine-brained they don't understand headline syntax? The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.
Headline syntax sucks.
If you leave Antarctica, you're heading north. Is it North of Antarctica toward Australia, South Africa, Patagonia or some other northerly direction from Antarctica?
That's the ambiguity inherent to the headline.
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The entire Weddell Sea is just north of Antarctica. That's where the Weddell Sea is. The problem is that everything near Antarctica is just north of Antarctica, including things on the complete opposite side of the entire continent. It's just a way of saying near Antarctica that sounds like you're giving more information than you really are.
We all probably understood that's what they meant but it's funny and not super clear. "The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica." or "The Weddell Sea near Antarctica." work much better.
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It's not just kids, gen-z's are legal adults now.
And for further clarification:
The Antarctic Peninsula(the long bit sticking out) is the furtest part away from the south pole in the antarctic and is thus the northernmost part, and is generally considered to be the "north" when using cardinal directions there. The Weddell Sea is off the coast of the peninsula.
And is part of the southern ocean, to make it real clear
If "north of Antarctica" isn't enough to narrow it down, here are a few tips: it's also south of the Arctic, further from the Sun than Venus, closer to the Sun than Mars. Now it's easy to find it!
We don't talk about what's South of Antarctica
You mean beyond the ice wall that marks the edge of the disc? We're not allowed to know /s
most probably between southamerica and antartica.
See that actually does narrow it down
Narrowed it down to a single planet.
What a shame. A wreck on another planet would have been way more interesting
Might as well just write it's north of south
They must be thinking in Mercator map instead of Globe.
Don't be too hard on them, they're new.
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I assume they mean "just north of Antarctica". But really it could be any body of water on the planet it could fit in.
"Just north of Antarctica" is still not helpful at all though. Even a hemisphere would narrow it down more.
It is helpful in that it gives an idea of what sort of waters it sank at. Being close to Antarctica my mind immediately goes to heavy seas with cold weather.
The peninsula is considered the north side. So the location of the shipwreck is south of South America.
Hey it's just south of Orkney. Small world.
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Yeah... probably "between Antarctica and the South Atlantic" would be the best reference here.
[Now it's probably not the time for me to ramble on how the Atlantic should be considered two oceans instead of one, right?]
The location is being kept secret to prevent looting.
It literally says beneath the Weddell sea.
But where is the Weddell sea?
It's wrapped around by that peninsula that juts toward(ish) the Andes.
Just north of Antarctica
Just north of Antarctica in the southern hemisphere.
Listen here you little shit.
lol what else did they mean by hemisphere? is there an eastern and a western hemisphere?
Yeah even "near Antarctica" narrows it down to the South Atlantic, South Pacific and South Indian oceans.
if we suppose "just" means near in this context, "Just north of antarctica" and "Near antarctica" has exactly the same meaning.
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