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Encyclopedia Britannica



SARGASSO SEA

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 219 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SARGASSO SEA , a
tract
  of the North
Atlantic
  Ocean, covered with floating seaweed (Sargassum, originally named sargaco by the Portuguese). This
tract
  is bounded approximately by 25 and 3o N. and by 38 and 6o W., but its extent varies according to winds and ocean currents. By these agencies the
weed
  is carried and massed together, the
original
  source of
supply
  being probably the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of
Mexico
  (see ALGAE). Similar circumstances lead to the existence of other similar tracts covered with floating
weed
 , e.g. in the solitary
part
  of the Pacific Ocean, north of the Hawaiian islands, between 3o and 40 N. and between 150 and 18o W. There is a smaller tract S.E. of New Zealand, and along a belt of the southern ocean extending from the Falkland Islands,
south
  of Africa and
south
 -west of Australia, similar floating banks of weed are encountered. The Sargasso Sea was discovered by Columbus, who on his first voyage was involved in it for about a fortnight. The widely credited possibility of ships becoming embedded in the weed, and being unable to escape, is disproved by the expedition of the " Michael Sara," under the direction of Sir John Murray and the
Norwegian
  government, in 1910, which found the surface covered with weed only in patches, not continuously.


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