Ellsworth Land

Ellsworth Land is a portion of the Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by the Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by the western margin of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. It is largely a high ice plateau, with the Ellsworth Mountains and several scattered mountain groups rising from it. The area west of 90 degrees west is unclaimed, the area between 84 and 90 degrees west is claimed by Chile alone, and the remainder is claimed by Chile and the United Kingdom as part of the British Antarctic Territory. The land is named for the American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who flew across the continent in 1935.