Princess Elisabeth Land
Coordinates: 80 ° 0 ′ S , 78 ° 0 ′ E
The Princess Elizabeth Land ( English Princess Elizabeth Land ) is the sector of the continent Antarctica between the longitudes 73 ° East and 87 ° 43 'East. It extends from the Antarctic coast (64 ° 56 ′ south) east of the Amery Ice Shelf to the South Pole . It belongs to the internationally unrecognized Australian Antarctic Territory .
The Princess Elizabeth Land was born on February 9, 1931 during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) of 1931/32 by Sir Douglas Mawson discovered and after the young Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II. , Named .
In January 1957, on the occasion of the International Geophysical Year in Princess Elisabeth Land, the Davis Station was put into operation, which today occupies a key position within the network of Antarctic research stations in Australia.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephan Eickschen: Classification of ice surface types with SSM / I data and interpretation using in-situ and satellite radar altimetry data in the area of the East Antarctic ice sheet (PDF; 16.2 MB), Inaugural dissertation, Münster 2010, accessed on 28 August 2013
- ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/queen-elizabeth-land GOV.UK Comments at the end of the announcement