Dundee Island
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Dundee Island is an ice
-covered island
lying east of the northeastern tip of Antarctic Peninsula
and south of Joinville Island
.
On January 8, 1893, during the Dundee Whaling Expedition
, the island was named by Captain Thomas Robertson of the Active
and named for the home port, Dundee, Scotland, whence the ship sailed in company with three other vessels in search of whales.
It is from this island that the American businessman Lincoln Ellsworth
, accompanied by the pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, took off on the 23 November, 1935 for the first crossing of the Antarctic by plane.
Ice
Ice is water frozen into the solid state. Usually ice is the phase known as ice Ih, which is the most abundant of the varying solid phases on the Earth's surface. It can appear transparent or opaque bluish-white color, depending on the presence of impurities or air inclusions...
-covered island
Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
lying east of the northeastern tip of Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....
and south of Joinville Island
Joinville Island
Joinville Island is the largest island of the Joinville Island group, about long in an east-west direction and wide, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by the Antarctic Sound...
.
On January 8, 1893, during the Dundee Whaling Expedition
Dundee Whaling Expedition
The Dundee Whaling Expedition began on 6 September 1892, when a Dundee, Scotland whaling company, due to dwindling arctic whaling resources, decided to gamble and sent four steam-powered whaling ships, the Balaena, Active, Diana and Polar Star, to the Weddell Sea in search of Right Whales...
, the island was named by Captain Thomas Robertson of the Active
Active (ship)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Active, USCGC Active, USRC Active, and USS Active.The Active was a ship that disappeared in the Tasman Sea in 1810....
and named for the home port, Dundee, Scotland, whence the ship sailed in company with three other vessels in search of whales.
It is from this island that the American businessman Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth was an arctic explorer from the United States.-Birth:He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois...
, accompanied by the pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, took off on the 23 November, 1935 for the first crossing of the Antarctic by plane.
See also
- Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
- SCARScientific Committee on Antarctic ResearchThe Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research is an interdisciplinary body of the International Council for Science . It was established in February 1958 to continue the international coordination of Antarctic scientific activities that had begun during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58...
- Territorial claims in Antarctica