Queen Maud Land
Queen Maud Land is a roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west, specifically the Caird Coast, Coats Land on the West, and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east, specifically Enderby Land on the East.
- Type: Arctic land
- Description: Norway’s territorial claim in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Antartica Noruega”, “Antártica Noruega”, “Antartida Noruega”, “Antártida Noruega”, “Antaruega”, “Antáruega”, “ATN”, “DML”, “Dronning Maud”, “Dronning Maudland”, “Dronning Mauds Land”, “Dronning mauds øy”, “Drotning Maudarland”, “Drottning Maud Land”, “Koningin Maud Land”, “Lando de Reĝino Maud”, “Maudarland”, “Norges Antarktisterritorium”, “Queen Maud land”, “Queen Maudland”, “Ţara Reginei Maud”, “Țara Reginei Maud”, “Terra di regina Maud”, “Terra regina Maud”, “Terre de la Reine Maud”, “Terre de la Reine Maude”, “Terre della regina Maud”, “Territorio Antartico Noruego”, “Territorio Noruego Antára Noruego”, “Territorio Noruego Antartico”, “Королевы Мод Земля”, “דרונינג מוד לנד”, “أرض كوين مود”, “سرزمین شهبانو مود”, “ดินแดนควีนมอด”, “クイーン・モード・ランド”, “ドローニングモードランド”, and “毛德王后地”
Queen Maud Land
- Categories: dependency of Norway, territorial claims in Antarctica, disputed territory, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-72.5° or 72° 30′ south
Longitude
12° east
Elevation
2,861 metres (9,386 feet)
Open location code
2FVJG222+22
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Queen Maud Land” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Koningin Maudland”
- Arabic: “أرض الملكة مود”
- Armenian: “Մոդ թագուհու երկիր”
- Asturian: “Tierra de la Reina Maud”
- Azerbaijani: “Kraliça Mod Torpağı”
- Basque: “Maud Erreginaren Lurraldea”
- Belarusian: “Зямля Каралевы Мод”
- Bengali: “রানি মড ভূমি”
- Bosnian: “Zemlja kraljice Maud”
- Breton: “Douar ar Rouanez Maud”
- Breton: “Dronning Maud Land”
- Bulgarian: “Земя кралица Мод”
- Bulgarian: “Земя на кралица Мод”
- Catalan: “Terra de la Reina Maud”
- Chechen: “Мод паччахьан латта”
- Chinese: “毛德皇后地”
- Czech: “Země královny Maud”
- Danish: “Dronning Maud Land”
- Dutch: “Koningin Maudland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ارض الملكه مود”
- Esperanto: “Lando de Maud”
- Estonian: “Kuninganna Maudi maa”
- Faroese: “Maudland”
- Finnish: “Kuningatar Maudin maa”
- French: “Terre de la Reine-Maud”
- Galician: “Terra da Raíña Maud”
- Georgian: “დედოფალ მოდის მიწა”
- German: “Königin-Maud-Land”
- Greek: “Γη της Βασίλισσας Μάουντ”
- Greek: “Γη της Βασίλισσας Μοντ”
- Hebrew: “ארץ המלכה מוד”
- Hindi: “रानी मौड धरती”
- Hungarian: “Maud királyné föld”
- Icelandic: “Matthildarland”
- Indonesian: “Dronning Maud Land”
- Italian: “Terra della regina Maud”
- Italian: “Terra della Regina Maud”
- Japanese: “ドローニング・モード・ランド”
- Japanese: “ドロンニング・モード・ランド”
- Kazakh: “Мод патшайымының жері”
- Korean: “퀸모드랜드”
- Latvian: “Karalienes Modas Zeme”
- Ligurian: “Tæra da Reginn-a Maud”
- Lithuanian: “Karalienės Matildos Žemė”
- Lithuanian: “Karalienės Modos Žemė”
- Macedonian: “Земја на Кралицата Мод”
- Malay: “Tanah Permaisuri Maud”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dronning Maud Land”
- Northern Frisian: “Könangin Maud Lun”
- Northern Sami: “Dronnet Maud eana”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dronning Maud Land”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dronning Maud Land”
- Norwegian: “Dronning Maud Land”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tèrra de la rèina Maud”
- Persian: “سرزمین شهبانو ماود”
- Persian: “سرزمین ملکه ماود”
- Polish: “Ziemia Królowej Maud”
- Portuguese: “Terra da Rainha Maud”
- Pushto: “ملکې ماود سيمه”
- Romanian: “Zona Antarctică Norvegiană”
- Russia Buriat: “Мод Улас”
- Russia Buriat: “Мод Хатанай Газар”
- Russian: “Земля Королевы Мод”
- Slovak: “Zem kráľovnej Maud”
- Slovenian: “Dežela kraljice Maud”
- Spanish: “Tierra de la Reina Maud”
- Sundanese: “Daratan Ratu Maud”
- Swedish: “Dronning Maud Land”
- Swedish: “Drottning Mauds land”
- Thai: “ควีนมอดแลนด์”
- Thai: “ควีนม็อดแลนด์”
- Turkish: “Kraliçe Maud Arazisi”
- Turkish: “Kraliçe Maud Toprakları”
- Ukrainian: “Земля Королеви Мод”
- Urdu: “کوئین ماود لینڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng đất Queen Maud”
- Waray (Philippines): “Katunaan Reyna Maud”
- Wu Chinese: “毛德皇后地”
- Yue Chinese: “慕德皇后地”
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