Weddell
Weddell is a surname and used to name geographic features.People
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alan Weddell, American college football coach
- Alexander W. Weddell, American diplomat; ambassador to Argentina and Spain
- Hugh Algernon Weddell, English botanist
- James Weddell, English navigator and Antarctic explorer
- Robert Weddell, Australian soldier and government administrator
Places
- Weddell, Northern Territory, a locality in Australia
- Weddell Glacier on South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean
- Weddell Gyre ocean current in the Weddell Sea
- Weddell Island, one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean
- Weddell Islands, in the South Orkney Islands
- Weddell Plain, undersea abyssal plain
- Weddell Point on South Georgia Island
- Weddell Point, Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands
- Weddell Polynya, an area of water surrounded by sea ice in the Weddell Sea
- Weddell Sea near Antarctica south of the Atlantic Ocean
- Weddell Settlement on Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands
Animals
- Weddell seal, Antarctic seal, most southerly distribution of any mammal
