Wilkes Land
Wilkes Land is a large district of land in eastern Antarctica, formally claimed by Australia as part of the Australian Antarctic Territory, though this claim has been held in abeyance for the period of the operation of the Antarctic Treaty, to which Australia is a signatory.- Type: Arctic land
- Description: region of Antartica
- Also known as: “Terra Wilkies”, “Wilkes-Land”, “Wilkesova zemlja”, “Земля Уїлкса”, and “Уилкса Земля”
Wilkes Land
- Categories: region and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-69° or 69° south
Longitude
120° east
Elevation
1,879 metres (6,165 feet)
Open location code
3Q322222+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Wilkes Land” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويلكس لاند”
- Armenian: “Ուիլկսի երկիր”
- Armenian: “Ուիլքսի երկիր”
- Azerbaijani: “Uilks Torpağı”
- Belarusian: “Зямля Уілкса”
- Bulgarian: “Земя Уилкс”
- Catalan: “Terra de Wilkes”
- Chinese: “威尔克斯地”
- Chinese: “威爾克斯地”
- Czech: “Wilkesova země”
- Dutch: “Wilkesland”
- Esperanto: “Wilkes-tero”
- Finnish: “Wilkesinmaa”
- French: “Terre de Wilkes”
- Galician: “Terra de Wilkes”
- Georgian: “უილქსის მიწა”
- German: “Wilkesland”
- Greek: “Γη Ουίλκς”
- Hebrew: “ארץ וילקס”
- Hindi: “विल्क्स धरती”
- Italian: “Terra di Wilkes”
- Japanese: “ウィルクスランド”
- Korean: “윌크스랜드”
- Latvian: “Vilksa Zeme”
- Lithuanian: “Vilkso žemė”
- Macedonian: “Вилксова Земја”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wilkes Land”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wilkes Land”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wilkes Land”
- Norwegian: “Wilkes Land”
- Persian: “سرزمین ویلکز”
- Polish: “Ziemia Wilkesa”
- Portuguese: “Terra de Wilkes”
- Russia Buriat: “Уилкс Улас”
- Russia Buriat: “Уилксын Газар”
- Russian: “Земля Уилкса”
- Slovak: “Wilkesova zem”
- Slovenian: “Wilkesova dežela”
- Spanish: “Tierra de Wilkes”
- Swedish: “Wilkes land”
- Swedish: “Wilkes Land”
- Tatar: “Уилкс җире”
- Turkish: “Wilkes Toprakları”
- Ukrainian: “Земля Вілкса”
- Venetian: “Tera de Wilkes”
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