Graham Land

noun

a part of the British Antarctic Territory, in the northern section of the Antarctic Peninsula: formerly the British name for the entire peninsula.

Graham Land

noun

the N part of the Antarctic Peninsula: became part of the British Antarctic Territory in 1962 (formerly part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies; claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty)

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An Antarctic cormorant on western Graham Land was also infected yet apparently unharmed.

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The settlement, on Graham Land at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula, is called the Esperanza Base.

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Palmer’s Land, extended into the Antarctic Circle by Biscoe’s discoveries of 1832, merges into Graham Land of the latter explorer.

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Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins with his airplane pilot Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson, last week, discovered that Graham Land is separate from the Antarctic continent.

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Graham Land itself seems to be fringed with an archipelago.

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