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[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

Are kids today so Vine-brained they don't understand headline syntax? The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Where else would you succinctly say the Weddell sea is?

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

East of the Antarctic peninsula.

Anyplace off the coast of Antarctica is, by definition, north of it. But the Weddell Sea is a specific area of the Southern Ocean.

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