Features include the Petrel Base (Argentina) and Cape Purvis in the south.
[1] It is from this island that the American businessman Lincoln Ellsworth, accompanied by the pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, took off on the 20 November 1935 for the first crossing of the Antarctic by plane.
The airstrip was extended in summer of 1966–67, and a large metal hangar and other buildings were erected.
An isolated reef lying in the Firth of Tay, just off the north coast of Dundee Island.
Discovered and named by Thomas Robertson, master of the Active, one of the ships of the Dundee whaling expedition of 1892-93.
[9] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey.