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Large tabular icebergs adrift in The Scotia Sea. The Scotia Sea is partly in the Southern Ocean and mostly in the Atlantic bordered on the west by Drake Passage. These island groups all sit on top of the Scotia Ridge, which frames the Scotia Sea north, east, and south. Habitually stormy and cold, the most famous traverse of this frigid sea was made in 1916 by Sir Ernest Shackleton. About half of the sea falls above the continental shelf.