Princess Elizabeth Land

Princess Elizabeth Land is the sector of Antarctica between longitude 73° east and Cape Penck (at 87°43' east). The sector is claimed by Australia as part of the Australian Antarctic Territory, although this claim is not widely recognised.

Geography

Princess Elizabeth Land is located between 64°56'S and 90°00'S and between 73°35' E and 87°43'E. It is divided into two sectors:

• Ingrid Christensen Coast, 73°35'E to 81°24'E
• Leopold and Astrid Coast, 81°24'E to 87°43'E

It is bounded on the west by Amery Ice Shelf, Mac. Robertson Land, and on the east by Kaiser Wilhelm II Land.

Exploration

Princess Elizabeth Land was discovered on 9 February 1931, by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) (1929–31) under Sir Douglas Mawson. Princess Elizabeth Land was named by Mawson after Princess Elizabeth, granddaughter of King George V who reigned at the time as King of Australia, among his other titles. Princess Elizabeth would later go on to become Queen Elizabeth II in 1952. This is one of two regions of Antarctica to be named for her. The other is Queen Elizabeth Land located across the continent in the British Antarctic Territory and named in 2012 in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

Although Australia claims the entirety of Princess Elizabeth Land, it is home to Russian stations including Vostok Station (the coldest place on Earth) and Mirny Station which supplies it.

See also

• List of mountains of Princess Elizabeth Land
• Queen Elizabeth Land
• Queen Elizabeth Islands

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StationsElevated
features

Mountains	Blundell Peak Mount Brown Mount Caroline Mikkelsen Cooke Peak Grove Mountains Hamm Peak Mount Harding Holder Peak Lamberts Peak Pionerskiy Dome Strover Peak Tarbuck Crag Vukovich Peaks Young Peak
Nunataks	Black Nunataks Bode Nunataks Boyd Nunatak Bryse Peaks Collins Nunatak Davey Nunataks Linton-Smith Nunataks Maris Nunatak Meknattane Nunataks Melvold Nunataks Svarthausen Nunatak Tate Rocks Truman Nunatak Vestknatten Nunatak Watts Nunatak Whisnant Nunatak
Hills	Larsemann Hills McKaskle Hills Mistichelli Hills Parker Hill Statler Hills Vestfold Hills
Rocks	Branstetter Rocks Keuken Rock Krat Rocks O'Gorman Rocks Thala Rock Walkabout Rocks
Cliffs and ridges	Brattstrand Bluffs Gale Escarpment Hamilton Bluff Lied Bluff Luncke Ridge Mason Peaks Trajer Ridge Wilson Ridge Zakharoff Ridge

Bodies of
water

Bays	Amanda Bay Barrier Bay Davis Anchorage Heidemann Bay Karelin Bay Prydz Bay Ranvik Bay Sandefjord Ice Bay Taynaya Bay Tryne Bay
Fjords	Ellis Fjord Krok Fjord Langnes Fjord Tryne Fjord Tryne Sound Weddell Arm
Lakes	Abraxas Lake Ace Lake Braunsteffer Lake Club Lake Collerson Lake Depot Lake Dingle Lake Lake Jabs Krok Lake Lookout Lake Medusa Lake Organic Lake Station Tarn Stinear Lake Lake Vereteno Lake Vostok Weddell Lake Lake Zvezda
Ice features	Browns Glacier Chaos Glacier Dålk Glacier Flatnes Ice Tongue Hargreaves Glacier Hovde Glacier Il Polo Glacier Kreitzer Glacier Peterson Icefalls Polar Record Glacier Polar Times Glacier Polarårboken Glacier Polarforschung Glacier Publications Ice Shelf Ranvik Glacier Rogers Glacier Sørsdal Glacier Stevenson Glacier Vrana Dome West Ice Shelf

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