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A large weatherd Tabular iceberg in the Scotia Sea. Habitually stormy and cold, the most famous traverse of this frigid sea was made in 1916 by Ernest Shackleton and four others in the adapted lifeboat James Caird when they left Elephant Island and reached South Georgia two weeks later.About half of the sea falls above the continental shelf. The Scotia Sea is filled with Tabular icebergs which have broken off from an ice shelf.