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Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) [note 1] is a roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre (1.0-million-square-mile) [5] region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. [6] It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east .
New Swabia (Norwegian and German: Neuschwabenland) was an area of Antarctica explored and briefly claimed by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land in early 1939. The region was named after the expedition's ship, Schwabenland , itself named after the German region of Swabia .
The flag of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French: Drapeau des Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises) is a flag representing the overseas territory of France consisting of Adélie Land (Terre Adélie), the Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet), the Kerguelen Islands (Îles Kerguelen), Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands (Îles Saint Paul et Amsterdam), and the Scattered Islands (Îles ...
The Queen Maud Land ( Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is a c. 2.7 million square kilometre (1.04 million sq mi) region of Antartica claimed as a dependent territory of Norway. It was named after the Norwegian queen Maud of Wales (1869-1938).
Erik the Red's Land, northeast coast of Greenland and Fridtjof Nansen Land, southeast coast of Greenland, claimed and annexed from 1931 until awarded to Denmark by a court decision in 1933. [12] Inari and Petsamo, now part of Finland and Russia, claimed from Finland from about 1942 to 1945 by the Quisling regime during the Nazi occupation of ...
It is bounded by Queen Maud Land in the West and by the Ross Dependency in the East. The Australian Antarctic Territory is the largest of any claims to the continent, and covers nearly 5.9 million square kilometres. [ 3 ]
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Queen Maud Land is the sector of Antarctica between the 20th meridian west and the 45th meridian east. [2] Peter I Island is a volcanic island located 450 kilometres (280 mi) off the coast of Ellsworth Land of continental Antarctica. [3] Despite being unincorporated areas, neither Svalbard nor Jan Mayen is formally considered a dependency.