The West Scotia Basin is a submarine basin in the South Atlantic Ocean, near its border with the Southern Ocean. The basin is found southeast of Tierra del Fuego, south of the Falkland Islands, and northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It forms the western portion of the Scotia Plate.
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“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)