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UK to name part of Antarctica Queen Elizabeth Land

She is the first monarch since 1781 - during the US war of independence - to attend a cabinet meeting.

She met ministers, who gave her a set of 60 place mats, to mark her Diamond Jubilee after 60 years on the throne.

After leaving Downing Street she went with Foreign Secretary William Hague to the Foreign Office, where it was announced that the southern part of the British Antarctic Territory had been named.

The territory, covering 169,000 sq miles - almost twice the size of the UK - was previously unnamed, the Foreign Office said.


This is good and all but last I checked our Antarctica territory was not recognised or something. I also think they could have picked a better name, the one they picked suits a town or something not territory.

Thoughts?

  • 12.18.2012 6:33 AM PDT
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thats a rough image of the land that countries have claimed in antarctica.

Its not exact. But countries that do have a claim on the territories just dont have a need to actually send anyone over their. antarctica is pretty useless atm

  • 12.18.2012 6:36 AM PDT

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This will be most annoying when I take Antarctica as my own nation, but I may keep the name for that region.

  • 12.18.2012 6:36 AM PDT
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They call me graland.

She met ministers, who gave her a set of 60 place mats, to mark her Diamond Jubilee after 60 years on the throne.I'm sure the Royal Place Mats will become a treasured artifact of the monarchy; hundreds of years from now they will be displayed in the Tower of London (rebuilt as a neoclassical skyscraper) alongside the crown jewels and the queen's head in a jar.

  • 12.18.2012 6:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: sims3k
thats a rough image of the land that countries have claimed in antarctica.

Its not exact. But countries that do have a claim on the territories just dont have a need to actually send anyone over their. antarctica is pretty useless atm
At least use a picture that makes sense next time, how can Somalia have territory on the continent?

@Garland: LOL

[Edited on 12.18.2012 6:39 AM PST]

  • 12.18.2012 6:39 AM PDT
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They call me graland.

Posted by: sims3k
thats a rough image of the land that countries have claimed in antarctica.
I like how the USA has three slices of pie.

  • 12.18.2012 6:39 AM PDT

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Posted by: Garland
She met ministers, who gave her a set of 60 place mats, to mark her Diamond Jubilee after 60 years on the throne.I'm sure the Royal Place Mats will become a treasured artifact of the monarchy; hundreds of years from now they will be displayed in the Tower of London (rebuilt as a neoclassical skyscraper) alongside the crown jewels and the queen's head in a jar.


I lol'd

  • 12.18.2012 6:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: Garland
She met ministers, who gave her a set of 60 place mats, to mark her Diamond Jubilee after 60 years on the throne.I'm sure the Royal Place Mats will become a treasured artifact of the monarchy; hundreds of years from now they will be displayed in the Tower of London (rebuilt as a neoclassical skyscraper) alongside the crown jewels and the queen's head in a jar.
i hope they have different images on each one.
otherwise it'd just be boring as hell.

  • 12.18.2012 7:05 AM PDT

Our claim to Antarctica is weak compared to Russia/Canada/Iceland. Our continental shelf doesn't connect.

  • 12.18.2012 7:12 AM PDT

BrAdLeY

Sigh why does my country love some queen who does nothing to help her country except wave.

  • 12.18.2012 7:14 AM PDT

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Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

I don't really see why countries want Antarctica other than because it is land, you know since it is probably colder than Siberia is, and that's year-round.

  • 12.18.2012 7:22 AM PDT
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Sigh why does my country love some queen who does nothing to help her country except wave.

Trained from birth to run a country, has been in the military and gone through the ranks and is active in helping the UK in foreign affairs and your saying they do nothing??

She has seen countless PM's come and go and she knows more than any of them, also while everything is changing she is one constant people can hold on to and feel secure in a way.

  • 12.18.2012 7:37 AM PDT

BrAdLeY

Really? so instead of building new houses she improves her palace, She says we should take cold baths to help the economy but she soak's in flowers, instead of putting funding in a obvious need for new houses to be built they build a olympic stadium.

Your a zombie android.

  • 12.18.2012 8:11 AM PDT

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Queen Elizabeth Land This sounds like the name of a really lame amusement park. Why not just call it Elizabeth, or Queen Elizabeth?

  • 12.18.2012 8:13 AM PDT

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That sounds like a terrible name for our territory. They should call it something like Little Britain?

  • 12.18.2012 8:16 AM PDT

hi

CAN we not think of a better name than that? they didn't even put
II on the end so we can tell which Elizabeth it was named after.
sure, it's obvious now, but in a hundred years or so there will probably be an other queen called Elizabeth.

  • 12.18.2012 8:28 AM PDT


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Posted by: feedthefishy
Sigh why does my country love some queen who does nothing to help her country except wave.

Trained from birth to run a country, has been in the military and gone through the ranks and is active in helping the UK in foreign affairs and your saying they do nothing??

She has seen countless PM's come and go and she knows more than any of them, also while everything is changing she is one constant people can hold on to and feel secure in a way.

  • 12.18.2012 8:44 AM PDT
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also while everything is changing she is one constant people can hold on to and feel secure in a way.


Lol at people who forget the whole Princess Diana fiasco. The Royal Family is one publicity stunt.

  • 12.18.2012 8:58 AM PDT