Wilkes Land
/wɪlks/- a region of Antarctica with a coast on the Indian Ocean. It is claimed by Australia.威尔克斯地(南极洲濒临印度洋的一个地区; 澳大利亚宣称该地区为其所有)。
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named after the American naval officer Charles Wilkes (1798-1877), who sighted and surveyed it between 1838 and 1842.