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After whom is Queen Maud Land in Antarctica named?

Dutch queen

Norwegian queen

Russian queen

Mythical queen of the Amazons

Queen Maud Land was the first part of Antarctica to be sighted. The name was initially applied in January 1930 to the land discovered by Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Finn Lützow-Holm during Norvegia expedition of 1929–30. It was named after the Norwegian Queen Maud of Wales, wife of the then-reigning King Haakon VII.

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