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Queen Elizabeth Land
Queen Elizabeth Land is a portion of mainland Antarctica named by the government of the United Kingdom and forming part of the British Antarctic Territory, which is the largest of the 14 British Overseas Territories. Situated south of Weddell Sea and between longitudes 20°W and 80°W, stretching from Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to the South Pole.〔(Queen Elizabeth Land. ) SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.〕 That territory was unnamed until 2012, though most of it was unofficially known as Edith Ronne Land in 1947-68〔(Ronne Ice Shelf. ) USGS Geographic Names Information System〕 and includes areas claimed by the United Kingdom, Chile and Argentina.
== History ==
On the occasion of a visit by Queen Elizabeth II to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London on 18 December 2012, it was announced there that a 169,000 square mile (437,000 square km) area of the British Antarctic Territory had been named Queen Elizabeth Land after The Queen. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, said that the naming was "a fitting tribute at the end of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee year".〔
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