Related topics from BritannicaRupert's Land historic region in northern and western Canada. The name was applied to the territory comprising the drainage basin of Hudson Bay, granted by King Charles II in 1670 to the Hudson's Bay Company. ...
Land League Irish agrarian organization that worked for the reform of the country's landlord system under British rule. The league was founded in October 1879 by Michael Davitt, the son of an evicted tenant ...
Land's End westernmost peninsula of the county of Cornwall, England. Composed of a granite mass, its tip is the southwesternmost point of England and lies about 870 miles (1,400 km) by road from John o' Groats, ...
De Land city, seat (1888) of Volusia county, northeastern Florida, U.S. It is situated just east of the St. Johns River, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Daytona Beach. The area's original inhabitants, ...
crown land in Great Britain, land owned by the crown, the income from which has been, since the reign of George III (1760-1820), surrendered to Parliament in return for a fixed Civil List, an agreed sum ...
Victoria Land physical region in eastern Antarctica, bounded by the Ross Sea (east) and Wilkes Land (west) and lying north of the Ross Ice Shelf. It was discovered in 1841 by a British expedition led by Sir James ...
Coats Land region of Antarctica bordering the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea. It extends about 300 miles (500 km) from Filchner Ice Shelf (southwest) to Queen Maud Land (east) and includes the coasts of ...
Peary Land region, northern Greenland, extending about 200 miles (320 km) east and west along the Arctic Ocean, between Victoria Fjord and the Greenland Sea. One of the northernmost land regions of the world, ...
Bergisches Land region, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany, along the east bank of the Rhine River, between the Sieg River south of Cologne and the Ruhr River near Duisburg, merging into the ...
Enderby Land region of Antarctica, bordering on the Indian Ocean and extending from Prince Olav Coast of Queen Maud Land (west) to Edward VIII Bay and Kemp Coast (east). Primarily a barren, ice-capped plateau in ...
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