Dundee Island
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Joinville Islands ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 30 ′ S , 55 ° 55 ′ W | |
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| length | 24.9 km | |
| width | 21.6 km | |
| surface | 383.3 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 600 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
| main place | ( Petrel station ) | |
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The Dundee Island ( English Dundee Island ) is an ice-covered island off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and south of Joinville Island . It is part of a group of islands around the peninsula of Graham Land , which is closer to South America than any other part of the continent . Its area is 383.3 km². Active Reef is just north of the Dundee Island coast .
The British navigator James Clark Ross had already seen them on his Antarctic expedition (1839–1843), but without recognizing their island character. On January 8, 1893, it was discovered as an island by Captain Thomas Robertson of the Dundee Whaling Expedition and named after the home port of Dundee of his ship Active .
The American Lincoln Ellsworth took off from this island on November 23, 1935 with the pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon (1897-1975) for the first crossing of the Antarctic by plane.
The Argentine Petrel station is located on the island , as it also falls within the Argentine claimed territory.
Web links
- Dundee Island at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)
- Dundee Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dundee Island on geographic.org (English)