Dundee Island

Dundee Island

File:Wfm antarctic peninsula islands.png Map of Graham Land, showing Dundee Island (5)
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates
Archipelago	Joinville Island group
Country
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

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 Antarctic Whaling Expedition, the island was named by Captain Thomas Robertson of the Active and named for their home in Dundee, Scotland. The expedition was made up of three other vessels in an unsuccessful search for commercial 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.

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

External links

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Dundee Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).