Coats Land
On 18 December 2012, the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office announced that the southern part of British Antarctic Territory has been named Queen Elizabeth Land in honour of Queen Elizabeth II in her Diamond Jubilee year. The area, the southern third of the territory, has an area of about – almost twice the size of the United Kingdom – and is roughly triangular in shape, with the South Pole at one apex and with the and lines of longitude forming the eastern and western boundaries. The northern boundary is formed by the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf on the west and by Coats Land on the east.