Ellsworth Land

American  

noun

1. a region in Antarctica, bordered by the Weddell Sea on the E, Byrd Land on the SW, and Palmer Land on the N: discovered 1935.

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Example Sentences

Demonstrating that the strong warming throughout West Antarctica shown in S09 – which was the primary claim in that paper – is an artifact, and the only statistically significant warming in West Antarctica is occurring in Ellsworth Land and the northern portion of Marie Byrd Land immediately adjacent 4. 

From New York Times

Little America and J. W. Ellsworth Land overlap British claims to the west, Chilean-Argentine-British claims to the east.

From Time Magazine Archive