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Victoria Land   /vɪktˈɔriə lænd/   Listen
Victoria Land

noun
1.
A mountainous area of Antarctica bounded by the Ross Sea and Wilkes Land.





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"Victoria land" Quotes from Famous Books



... journey from lat. 82deg. to 83deg. was a pure pleasure trip, on account of the surface and the temperature, which were as favourable as one could wish. Everything went swimmingly until the 9th, when we sighted South Victoria Land and the continuation of the mountain chain, which Shackleton gives on his map, running southeast from Beardmore Glacier. On the same day we reached lat. 83deg., and established here ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen
... Terrain: about 98% thick continental ice sheet and 2% barren rock, with average elevations between 2,000 and 4,000 meters; mountain ranges up to 4,897 meters high; ice-free coastal areas include parts of southern Victoria Land, Wilkes Land, the Antarctic Peninsula area, and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciers form ice shelves along about half of the coastline, and floating ice shelves constitute 11% of the area of the continent Natural resources: ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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