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-'''[[Darling Ridge]]''' is a [[snow]]-covered, flat-topped ridge, 2,350 meters (7,700 ft) high, with precipitous rock sides. The ridge is 2.5 nautical miles (5 km) long and forms a notable landmark at the northwest corner of Buckeye Table in the [[Ohio Range]] of the [[Horlick Mountains]].
+'''[[Wilkes Land]]''' is a large district of land in eastern [[Antarctica]], formally claimed by Australia as part of the [[Australian Antarctic Territory]], though the validity of this claim has been placed for the period of the operation of the [[Antarctic Treaty]], to which Australia is a signatory. The region extends as a sector about 2600 km towards the [[South Pole]], with an estimated land area of 2,600,000 km², mostly glaciated.
-The ridge was surveyed by the United States [[Antarctic]] Research Program Horlick Mountains Traverse party in December 1958. Darling Ridge was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in honor of Fredric L. Darling, a glaciological assistant with the traverse party.
+Wilkes Land is named after Lieutenant Charles Wilkes (later a Rear Admiral), the American explorer who commanded the 1838–42 United States Exploring Expedition. The naming is in recognition of Wilkes' discovery of the continental margin over a distance of 2,400 km (1,500 miles) of coast, thus providing substantial proof that [[Antarctica]] is a continent. This definition of extent excludes the area east of 142°02' E, George V Land, which was sighted by Wilkes but has been shown by later expeditions to be further south than the positions originally assigned by him.
-<p><small>Photographer: Bill Atkinson</small></p>
+<p><small>Author: Thomas Sully</small></p>
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