Near the British Empire then.
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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.
Where else would you succinctly say the Weddell sea is?
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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Don't be too hard on them, they're new.
But they aren't wrong
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
They must be thinking in Mercator map instead of Globe.
TBF it's also south of the Arctic Ocean.
I'll have to use that one.
Of course they aren’t going to give the exact location. That wreck would be ransacked for scrap metal if it isn’t resting too deep. Like in Indonesia several WW2 shipwrecks have gone missing.
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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.