Victoria Land

American  

noun

1. a region in Antarctica, bordering on the Ross Sea, mainly in Ross Dependency.

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Victoria Land British  

noun

1. a section of Antarctica, largely in the Ross Dependency on the Ross Sea

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Victoria Land

Australia and New Zealand explored the rocky mountains of Northern Victoria Land.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Then we are not to go so far south as Victoria Land, and see all the wonderful things Sir James Ross saw?"

From The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea by Osborne, Mrs. David

The whole of the land traced to the seventy-ninth degree of latitude was named Victoria Land.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick

There are Mount Erebus and Mount Terror, in South Victoria Land, active volcanoes discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841, and again by Borchgrevink, in 1899.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 by Bates, Harry

This could only be South Victoria Land, probably a continuation of the mountain range which runs in a southeasterly direction and which is shown on Shackleton's map.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)