Coats Land
- proper noun
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Tierra de Coats
- The edge of the Weddell Sea is bordered by Coats Land to the southeast.
Examples
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Explorers first charted Coats Land in the early twentieth century.
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Research teams set up a temporary camp in Coats Land to study the ice sheets.
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The research team explored Coats Land last summer.
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Have you ever visited Coats Land?
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The edge of the Weddell Sea is bordered by Coats Land to the southeast.
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Explorers first charted Coats Land in the early twentieth century.
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Research teams set up a temporary camp in Coats Land to study the ice sheets.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Coats + land
As a place name, the element 'land' clearly signals a territory so a B1 learner who knows the words can infer this is the name of a place or region. However 'Coats' is an arbitrary proper name (likely a surname) that gives no semantic information about location or meaning, so the full, specific sense (a region of western Antarctica) cannot be derived from the parts.
Etymology
The place name Coats Land may come from the Coats family who helped pay for the trip that first saw this stretch of Antarctic coast. The word Land shows it is a 'region' of the continent, so today Coats Land means that part of Antarctica named after them.
