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McMurdo Sound

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Etymology

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Captain James Clark Ross discovered the sound in February of 1841 and named it after Lieutenant Archibald McMurdo of HMS Terror.

Proper noun

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McMurdo Sound

  1. A sound in Ross Island, Antarctica.

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