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   Wilkes, Charles

   • IPA[wilks]

   美式

   • ph.
     (1798–1877), US naval officer and explorer. He determined that Antarctica is a continent during an 1838–42 expedition. Antarctica's Wilkes Land was named in his honor. In 1861, he was involved in the Trent Affair, an incident on the high seas in which Confederate commissioners to England and France were forcibly detained by the US navy.
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   Wilkes Land

   • ph.
     a region of Antarctica that has a coast on the Indian Ocean. It is claimed by Australia.

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   Wilkes-Barre

   • an industrial city in northeastern Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River, in the Wyoming ...

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   Wilkes Land

   • ph.
     a region of Antarctica with a coast on the Indian Ocean. It is claimed by Australia.

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   Booth, John Wilkes

   • ph.
     (1838–65), US actor. He is better known as the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln at ...

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