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, the region of Victoria Land is located below the Ross Ice Shelf .]]

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica lying south of New Zealand , named after the UK's Queen Victoria . It is bounded on the east by the Ross Sea and on the west by Wilkes Land . It includes ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains and the McMurdo Dry Valleys . Early explorers of the region include James Clark Ross and Douglas Mawson .