Antarctica

Queen Maud Land

Queen Maud Land is a roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre region of claimed by as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west, specifically the , on the West, and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east, specifically on the East.
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  • Type: Arctic land
  • Description: Norway’s territorial claim in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Dronning Maud Land”

Queen Maud Land

Latitude
-72.5° or 72° 30′ south
Longitude
12° east
Elevation
2,861 metres (9,386 feet)
Open location code
2FVJG222+22
Geo­Names ID
6623778
Wiki­data ID
Q189999
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Queen Maud Land” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Afrikaans: “Koningin Maud Land”
  • Afrikaans: “Koningin Maudland”
  • Afrikaans: “Queen Maud Land”
  • Arabic: “أرض الملكة مود”
  • Arabic: “أرض كوين 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: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Chinese: “慕德皇后地”
  • Chinese: “毛德王后地”
  • Chinese: “毛德皇后地”
  • Czech: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Czech: “Země královny Maud”
  • Danish: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Dutch: “ATN”
  • Dutch: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Dutch: “Dronning Maudland”
  • Dutch: “Koningin Maudland”
  • Dutch: “Queen Maud land”
  • Dutch: “Queen Maudland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ارض الملكه مود”
  • Esperanto: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Esperanto: “Lando de Maud”
  • Esperanto: “Lando de Reĝino Maud”
  • Estonian: “Kuninganna Maudi maa”
  • Faroese: “Drotning Maudarland”
  • Faroese: “Maudarland”
  • Faroese: “Maudland”
  • Finnish: “Kuningatar Maudin maa”
  • French: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • French: “Terre de la Reine Maud”
  • French: “Terre de la Reine Maude”
  • French: “Terre de la Reine-Maud”
  • Galician: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Galician: “Dronning Maud”
  • Galician: “Terra da Raíña Maud”
  • Georgian: “დედოფალ მოდის მიწა”
  • German: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • German: “Königin-Maud-Land”
  • German: “Queen Maud Land”
  • Greek: “Γη της Βασίλισσας Μάουντ”
  • Greek: “Γη της Βασίλισσας Μοντ”
  • Hebrew: “ארץ המלכה מוד”
  • Hebrew: “דרונינג מוד לנד”
  • Hindi: “रानी मौड धरती”
  • Hungarian: “Maud királyné föld”
  • Icelandic: “Matthildarland”
  • Indonesian: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Italian: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Italian: “Queen Maud Land”
  • Italian: “Terra della regina Maud”
  • Italian: “Terra della Regina Maud”
  • Italian: “Terra di regina Maud”
  • Italian: “Terra regina Maud”
  • Italian: “Terre della regina Maud”
  • Japanese: “クイーン・モード・ランド”
  • Japanese: “ドローニング・モード・ランド”
  • 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: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • 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: “DML”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Norges Antarktisterritorium”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dronning Mauds Land”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dronning mauds øy”
  • Norwegian: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tèrra de la rèina Maud”
  • Persian: “سرزمین شهبانو ماود”
  • Persian: “سرزمین شهبانو مود”
  • Persian: “سرزمین ملکه ماود”
  • Polish: “Ziemia Królowej Maud”
  • Portuguese: “Terra da Rainha Maud”
  • Pushto: “ملکې ماود سيمه”
  • Romanian: “Ţara Reginei Maud”
  • Romanian: “Țara Reginei Maud”
  • Romanian: “Zona Antarctică Norvegiană”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мод Улас”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мод Хатанай Газар”
  • Russian: “Земля Королевы Мод”
  • Russian: “Королевы Мод Земля”
  • Slovak: “Zem kráľovnej Maud”
  • Slovenian: “Dežela kraljice Maud”
  • Slovenian: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Spanish: “Antartica Noruega”
  • Spanish: “Antártica Noruega”
  • Spanish: “Antartida Noruega”
  • Spanish: “Antártida Noruega”
  • Spanish: “Antaruega”
  • Spanish: “Antáruega”
  • Spanish: “Dronning Maud”
  • Spanish: “Territorio Antartico Noruego”
  • Spanish: “Territorio Noruego Antára Noruego”
  • Spanish: “Territorio Noruego Antartico”
  • Spanish: “Tierra de la Reina Maud”
  • Sundanese: “Daratan Ratu Maud”
  • Swedish: “Dronning Maud Land”
  • Swedish: “Drottning Maud Land”
  • Swedish: “Drottning Mauds land”
  • Thai: “Queen Maud Land”
  • Thai: “ควีนมอดแลนด์”
  • Thai: “ควีนม็อดแลนด์”
  • Thai: “ดินแดนควีนมอด”
  • 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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