Wilkes Land

American  

noun

1. a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Australia.

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Wilkes Land British  

noun

1. a region in Antarctica south of Australia, on the Indian Ocean

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Example Sentences

The newfound landscape sits near the edge of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in a region called Wilkes Land.

From Scientific American

The 450-square-mile ice shelf was located in an area known as Wilkes Land; the loss occurred in mid-March.

From New York Times

Co-author Michiel van den Broeke, a professor of Polar Meteorology at Utrecht University, said the thaw of Wilkes Land in East Antarctica was an emerging area of science.

From Reuters

To the west of Totten, in Wilkes Land, the rate of height loss has doubled since 2009, with glaciers losing height by about two and a half metres to date.

From The Guardian

In previous flights over Wilkes Land, van Ommen’s team discovered that 21% of the Totten glacier catchment is more than 1 kilometre below sea level — an area 100 times larger than previous estimates.

From Nature