Graham Land

American  

noun

1. a part of the British Antarctic Territory, in the northern section of the Antarctic Peninsula: formerly the British name for the entire peninsula.

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Graham Land British  

noun

1. the N part of the Antarctic Peninsula: became part of the British Antarctic Territory in 1962 (formerly part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies; claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty)

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Example Sentences

An Antarctic cormorant on western Graham Land was also infected yet apparently unharmed.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 18, 2024

Graham Land itself seems to be fringed with an archipelago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins with his airplane pilot Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson, last week, discovered that Graham Land is separate from the Antarctic continent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both are in Antarctica now, preparing to return to the U. S. after flights in Graham Land.

From Time Magazine Archive

The genus Isotoma, for example, has some of its numerous species in regions so remote as Alaska, Franz Josef Land, the Sandwich Islands, the South Orkneys, Graham Land, Kerguelen and South Victoria Land.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various