Victoria Land

American

noun

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

Victoria Land British

noun

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

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

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It is pleasant to find a Prince Albert Land and a Victoria Land up in the Arctic ocean, side by side; and a North Lincoln and North Devon, separated only by Jones’s Sound.

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The ship proceeded to New Zealand, and left there on November 28, 1901, for Victoria Land.

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Er�ebus, Mount, a volcano of the antarctic regions in S. Victoria Land; height, 12,400 feet; discovered by Ross, 1841.

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Recent explorations along the south and east coast of Victoria Land.

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