Ellsworthland

- 75.5 - 80Koordinaten: 75 ° 30 '0 " S, 80 ° 0' 0 " W

The Ellsworthland is a region in Westantarktika. It extends from the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula ( Palmer Land) and the Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf in the east to Marie Byrd Land in the West, between 103 ° 24 'W and 79 ° 45 ' W. To the north is the Ellsworthland by the Bellingshausen limited.

It is an ice -covered plateau of an average elevation of 2000 m, from which the Ellsworthgebirge with Mount Vinson, the highest peak of Antarctica rises. The area was named by the American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who flew over the area in 1935 in an airplane, after his father, James W. Ellsworth country.