Wilkes Land - Wilkes Land in Popular Culture

Wilkes Land in Popular Culture

  • Wilkes Land is featured prominently in the 1998 film The X-Files. Fox Mulder journeys to Antarctica to save his partner Dana Scully, who is being held there against her will. In the process discovering a huge secret lab under the surface run by the Cigarette-Smoking Man.

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