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By Tolga Akmen / AFP Here are 10 places around the world named after Queen Elizabeth II: Here are 10 places around the world named after Queen Elizabeth II: – Queen Elizabeth Land – Around 437,000 square kilometres (169,000 square miles) of British Antarctic Territory was named after the monarch to mark her diamond jubilee in 2012. The triangular segment is nearly twice the size of Britain and stretches from the South Pole to the Ronne Ice Shelf on the Weddell Sea. – Princess Elizabeth Land – Seven decades earlier in 1931, this slice of Antarctica was discovered by the British, Australian an…