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South Victoria Land

or VIC- TORIA LAND, the eastern portion of the Victoria quadrant of Antarctic land.

It is within the 160th and 170th meridian E. from about lat. 70° to beyond lat. 83° S. It is mountainous and covered with snow and contains the volcanoes Terror and Erebus. The Magnetic South Pole is near the northern extremity. Ross visited Victoria land in 1841, and knowledge covering it gradually increased till it was mapped in 1899 by Borchgrevink.

Nordenskjöld, Scott, and Shackleton have more recently explored it.