# Kaiser Wilhelm II Land

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. Part of Antarctica, lying between Cape Penck at 87° 43'E and Cape Filchner at 91° 54'E.

## Etymology
Calque of German Kaiser-Wilhelmsland. The area was discovered on 22 February 1902, during the Gauss expedition of 1901–1903 led by Arctic veteran and geologist Erich von Drygalski. Drygalski named it after the sitting Kaiser Wilhelm II who had funded the expedition with 1.2 million goldmarks.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/kaiser-wilhelm-ii-land