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 one of several islands around the peninsula known as Graham Land, which is closer to South America than any other part of that continent.[1]
It is from this island that the American billionaire 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.[citation needed]
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