Active Reef
| Active Reef | ||
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| Waters | Firth of Tay | |
| archipelago | Joinville Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 24 ′ S , 55 ° 52 ′ W | |
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The Active Reef is an isolated rocky reef in the Firth of Tay just north of the coast of Dundee Island at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula .
It was discovered by Thomas Robertson, skipper of the eponymous whaler Active on the Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892-1893). The ship hit the reef on January 10, 1893 during a storm.
Web links
- Active Reef in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Active Reef on geographic.org (English)