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Wilkes Land is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WILKES LAND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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 the validity of this claim has been placed for the period of the operation of the Antarctic Treaty, to which Australia is a signatory. It fronts on the southern Indian Ocean between Queen Mary Coast and Adelie Land, extending from Cape Hordern in 100°31' E to Pourquoi Pas Point, in 136°11' E. The region extends as a sector about 2600 km towards the South Pole, with an estimated land area of 2,600,000 km², mostly glaciated. It is further subdivided in the following coastal areas which can also be thought of as sectors extending to the South Pole: ▪ Knox Land: 100°31' E to 109°16' E ▪ Budd Land: 109°16' E to 115°33' E ▪ Sabrina Land: 115°33' E to 122°05' E ▪ Banzare Land: 122°05' E to 130°10' E ▪ Clarie Land: 130°10' E to 136°11' E In a wider sense, Wilkes Land extends further East to Point Alden in 142°02' E, thereby including Adelie Land, which is claimed by France.

Definition of Wilkes Land in the English dictionary

The definition of Wilkes Land in the dictionary is a region in Antarctica south of Australia, on the Indian Ocean.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WILKES LAND

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WORDS THAT END LIKE WILKES LAND

Arnhem Land
Byrd Land
Enderby Land
Franz Josef Land
Graham Land
Holy Land
Marie Byrd Land
Palmer Land
Promised Land
Queen Maud Land
Rupert´s Land
the Holy Land
Van Diemen´s Land
Victoria Land
Waste Land

Synonyms and antonyms of Wilkes Land in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Wilkes Land» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

威尔克斯地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Tierra de Wilkes
570 millions of speakers

English

Wilkes Land
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विल्क्स भूमि
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ويلكس لاند
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Земля Уилкса
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Terra de Wilkes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উইলকস ল্যান্ড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Terre de Wilkes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wilkes Land
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Translator English - German

Wilkes Land
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ウィルクスランド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

윌크스 랜드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wilkes Land
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Wilkes Land
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வில்கேஸ் லேண்ட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विल्क्स जमीन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Wilkes Land
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Terra di Wilkes
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Wilkes działki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

земля Уїлкса
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Wilkes Land
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Translator English - Greek

Wilkes Land
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Wilkes Land
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Translator English - Swedish

Wilkes Land
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Wilkes Land
5 millions of speakers

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The term «Wilkes Land» is used very little and occupies the 157.025 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WILKES LAND»

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The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water
Although large meteorites have certainly impacted in Antarctica, only one such crater has been tentatively identified under the ice at about 71°30¢S, 140°00¢E in Wilkes Land south of the Adélie coast. Another more speculative meteorite ...
Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, 2010
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Wilkes Land Crater
These are separated below under the heading Wilkes Land anomaly and Wilkes Land mascon (mass concentration), based on terms used in their principal published reference sources.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Antarctica: A Biography
Letters, Newberry to Robbins, 8 March 1906, and Hays to Secretary, American Geographical Society, 20 May 1909, 'Wilkes Land controversy' folder, AGS; Edwin Swift Balch, 'Why America Should Re-Explore Wilkes Land', Proceedings ofthe ...
David Day, 2013
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Antarctica: A Biography
Letters, Newberry to Robbins, 8 March 1906, and Hays to Secretary, American Geographical Society, 20 May 1909, 'Wilkes Land controversy' folder, AGS; Edwin Swift Balch, 'Why America Should Re-Explore Wilkes Land', Proceedings ofthe ...
David Day, 2013
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Mass-transport Deposits in Deepwater Settings
DONDA, F., BRANCOLINI, G., O ́BRIEN, P., DE SANTIS, L., AND ESCUTIA, C., 2007, Sedimentary processes in the Wilkes Land margin: a record of Cenozoic Ice Sheet evolution: Geological Society of London, Journal, v. 164, p. 243–256.
R. Craig Shipp, Paul Weimer, Henry W. Posamentier, 2011
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Deep-water Contourite Systems: Modern Drifts and Ancient ...
Wilkes Land is the section of the East Antarctic coast from 100-142°E, and this study focuses on the continental margin off the eastern half of this coastline. Preliminary studies of sediment cores collected during the USNS-Eltanin 1968- 1971 ...
Dorrik A. V. Stow, 2002
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Antarctic Palaeoenvironments and Earth-Surface Processes:
Cenozoic sedimentation on the Wilkes Land continental rise, Antarctica. In: Ricci, C. A. (eds) The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes. Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science. Terra Antarctica ...
M.J. Hambrey, P.F. Barker, P.J. Barrett, 2013
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Antarctic Climate Evolution
Acoustic Stratigraphy The approximately 1,500km long Wilkes Land segment of the continental margin (Fig. WL-1) formed during the Cretaceous separation of Australia and Antarctica (Cande and Mutter, 1982; Veevers, 1987; Sayers et al., ...
Fabio Florindo, Martin Siegert, 2008
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Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical ...
... Coast Kemp Coast Lambert Glacier Ingrid Christensen Coast Wilkes Land (e85 -101n67-721) Wilkes Land (e97-113n67-721) Wilkes Land (e109-125n67-721) Wilkes Land (e121-137n67-721) Wilkes Land (el33-149n67-721) Cook Ice Shelf  ...
Ute Christina Herzfeld, 2004
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Antarctic Marine Geology
Seismic Stratigraphy Several seismic stratigraphic studies have been conducted on the Wilkes Land continental margin (Wannesson et al., 1985; Tanahashi et al., 1987; Eittreim and Smith, 1987; Hampton, Eittriem, and Richmond, 1987; ...
J. B. Anderson, 1999

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WILKES LAND»

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Wilkes deeds to be available on website
For several years, Realtors and other professionals who work with Wilkes land records have asked that Wilkes Register of Deeds Rick Woodruff put Wilkes ... «Wilkes Journal Patriot, May 15»
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Antarctic Ice Thicker Than Previously Thought
According to the results, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the studied Weddell, Bellinghausen and Wilkes Land sectors boast an average ice ... «Nature World News, Nov 14»
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Through the Looking Glass: Scientists Peer into Antarctica's Past to …
The records were recovered from Antarctica, preserved in sediment cores retrieved during the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Wilkes Land Glacial ... «National Science Foundation, Apr 10»
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Antarctica's Past Could Help Us Understand Our Future Climate
New climate records recovered from Antarctica during the recent Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) "Wilkes Land Glacial History" Expedition show that ... «RedOrbit, Apr 10»
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Deep in ancient seafloor sediments off Antarctica, Stanford …
He's in search of clues to Earth's past climate, and his blog, full of video clips, photos and written entries, gives a lively account of an expedition to Wilkes Land, ... «Stanford University News, Feb 10»
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Giant crater may lie under Antarctic ice
Ralph von Frese, at Ohio State University in the US, and colleagues say the Wilkes Land crater is more than twice the size of the Chicxulub crater in Mexico's ... «New Scientist, Jun 06»
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Does a giant crater lie beneath the Antarctic ice?
... revealed a 320-kilometre-wide plug of dense mantle material more than 1.6 kilometres beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet in an area known as Wilkes Land. «Nature.com, Jun 06»

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