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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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Two volcanic mountains were discovered on an island near Victoria Land.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

The sun, near the southern horizon, still shone in a cloudless sky, and far away to the south-west the blue outline of the high mountain peaks of Victoria Land could be seen.

From The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Turley, Charles

The immense sheet of ice, over 400 miles wide and of still greater length, which lies south of Ross Island to the west of Victoria Land.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon

James Ross reaches 78.10° S.; discovers Victoria Land, and the volcanoes Erebus and Terror.

From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Jacobs, Joseph