Queen Maud Land
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queen-maud-land-162-5504635
title:
Queen Maud Land
text:
Queen Maud Land is a roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre (1.0-million-square-mile) region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addition, a small unclaimed area from 1939 was annexed in June 2015. Positioned in East Antarctica, it makes out about one-fifth of the continent, and is named after the Norwegian Queen Maud (1869–1938). In 1930, the Norwegian Hjalmar Riis
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Norway's territorial claim in Antarctica
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Maud_Land
date created:
2001-09-18T09:23:16Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T19:55:23Z
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13
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