The BritishAntarcticTerritory is the largest of the UK's overseas territories.
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Foreign Secretary William Hague said the southern part of the BritishAntarcticTerritory had been designated "Queen Elizabeth Land" in honor of her 60-year reign.
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The previously unnamed territory is nearly twice the size of the United Kingdom and about a third of the whole land mass of the BritishAntarcticTerritory, Hague said.