Oates Land

The segment of the Australian claim extends between 153°45' E and 160° E,[citation needed] forming a wedge between Latitude 60° S and the South Pole.

It is bounded in the east by the Ross Dependency and overlaps George V Land to the west.

It is named after Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates of the 6th (Iniskilling) Dragoons, who, with Captain Robert Falcon Scott and three companions, lost his life on the return journey from the South Pole in 1912.

[1] The coastal region of Oates Land has been photographed or explored by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946–47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1958), Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1959, 1961 and 1962), the US Navy (1960–62), and the US Geological Survey (1963–64).

[citation needed] This article incorporates public domain material from "Oates Land".