Foreign Secretary William Hague anounced plans to rename the 169000 Sq Mile of British Antarctic Territory to ''Queen Elizabeth Land'' following the Monarch's visit to the Cabinet on Tuesday Dec 18,2012
Argentina have lodged a complaint over the renaming of some British Antarctic Territory as "Queen Elizabeth Land" in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
The British ambassador to the South American country was passed a message condemning the UK's "anachronistic imperialist ambitions that hark back to ancient practices".
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