A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’
It’s winter in Antarctica, when sea ice expands rapidly around the continent peaking in September.
But satellite observations showed the Bellingshausen Sea – on the west side of the Antarctic peninsula and which by June would usually be covered by ice – was almost completely ice free.
Fair enough. I just figured… there’s the 0° meridian and everything on the left of it is west and everything on the right is east. Same principle would apply to the hoola hoop except it would be hard to determine unless someone was nice enough to draw the line on the ground like they did in Greenwich.
To me north and south would be weirder because the south would be inside the hoop and north would be the edges