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Dundee Whaling Expedition
The Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892–1893) was a commercial voyage from Scotland to Antarctica. Whaling in the Arctic was in decline from overfishing. The merchants of Dundee decided to equip a fleet to sail all the way to the Weddell Sea in search of right whales. Antarctic whaling was mostly done from shore-based stations. On 6 September 1892, four steam-powered whaling ships, the , , ''Diana'' and ''Polar Star'', set off.Voyage of the Balaena Glasgow Digital Library, retrieved 3 December 2013 In the end they found no whales they could harvest as the s of the Antarctic were too powerful to be captured. However, the expedition managed to make a profit by collecting numerous seal pelts. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundee Antarctic Whaling Expedition 1892
Dundee (; ; or , ) is the List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, fourth-largest city in Scotland. The mid-year population estimate for the locality was . It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea. Under the name of Dundee City, it forms one of the 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas used for local government in Scotland. Within the boundaries of the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Angus, Scotland, Angus, the city developed into a burgh in the late 12th century and established itself as an important east coast trading port. Rapid expansion was brought on by the Industrial Revolution, particularly in the 19th century when Dundee was the centre of the global jute industry. This, along with its other major industries, gave Dundee its epithet as the city of "jute, jam and journalism". With the decline of traditional industry, the city has adopted a plan to regenerate and reinvent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Robertson (sailor)
Thomas, Tom or Tommy Robertson may refer to: *Thomas Robertson (priest) (fl. 1532–1559), Anglican archdeacon of Leicester and dean of Durham *Thomas Alexander Robertson (1909–1973), better known by his pen name of "Vagaland", Shetland poet *Thomas Bolling Robertson (born 1950), American diplomat, ambassador to Slovenia 2004–2008 *Thomas Campbell Robertson (1789–1863), British civil servant in India *Thomas Chalmers Robertson (1907–1989), author, ecologist and conservationist from South Africa *T. W. Robertson (Thomas William Robertson, 1829–1871), English dramatist and stage director *Hamza Robertson (Tom Robertson, born 1982), English singer *T. A. Robertson (Thomas Argyll Robertson, 1909–1994), Scottish MI5 intelligence officer *Thomas Dolby (Thomas Morgan Robertson, born 1958), musician * Thomas Robertson (minister) (died 1799), co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh *Thomas S. Robertson, Scottish-born American professor of marketing * Thomas Graham Robertson, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joinville Island Group
Joinville Island group is a group of antarctic islands, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which Joinville Island group is separated by the Antarctic Sound. Location The Joinville Island group lies in Graham Land to the east of the tip of Trinity Peninsula, which is itself the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is separated from the mainland by the Antarctic Sound. Joinville Island is at the center of the group. Other islands and rocks include, clockwise from the west, Bransfield Island, D'Urville Island, Wideopen Islands, Brash Island, Danger Islands, Eden Rocks, Paulet Island, Dundee Island. Main islands D'Urville Island . Northernmost island of the Joinville Island group, long, lying immediately north of Joinville Island, from which it is separated by Larsen Channel. Charted in 1902 by the SwedAE under Otto Nordenskjöld, who named it for Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer who discovered land in the Joinville Island group. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 In Antarctica
Events January * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. * January 13 ** The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting. ** U.S. Marines from the ''USS Boston'' land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. * January 15 – The ''Telefon Hírmondó'' service starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest. * January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Committee of Safety (Hawaii), Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani. * January 21 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 In Antarctica
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ''On the Elements According to Hippocrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 In Scotland
Events from the year 1893 in Scotland. Incumbents * Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir George Trevelyan, Bt Law officers * Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour * Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Asher Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh Events * 20 April – gaff rigged racing cutter yacht HMY ''Britannia'', designed by George Lennox Watson for Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, is launched at D. and W. Henderson and Company's Meadowside shipyard at Partick on the River Clyde. * 29 April – gaff rigged racing cutter yacht '' Valkyrie II'', designed by George Lennox Watson for Lord Dunraven to challenge the America's Cup, is launched at D. and W. Henderson and Company's Meadowside shipyard at Partick on the River Clyde. * 6 July – replacement Bonar Bridge opened. * 12 July – Dundee football club formed. * 10 Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 In Scotland
Events from the year 1892 in Scotland. Incumbents * Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Marquess of Lothian, until 11 August; then Sir George Trevelyan, Bt Law officers * Lord Advocate – Sir Charles Pearson until August; then John Blair Balfour * Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Murray; then Alexander Asher Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh Events * 29 January – Original bridge at Bonar Bridge swept away by flood. * February – Scottish Universities Commissioners publish an ordinance authorising Scottish universities to provide for the education and graduation of women for the first time. * 9 April – Celtic F.C. win the Scottish Cup for the first time. * 4– 18 July – At the 1892 general election, Keir Hardie, standing as an Independent Labour Party candidate, wins the London seat of West Ham South. * 5 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Dundee
Dundee () is the fourth-largest City status in the United Kingdom, city in Scotland with a population of around 150,000 people. It is situated on the north bank of the Firth of Tay on the east coast of the Central Lowlands of Scotland. The Dundee area has been settled since the Mesolithic with evidence of Picts, Pictish habitation beginning in the Iron Age. During the Medieval Era the city became a prominent trading port and was the site of many battles. Throughout the Industrial Revolution, the local jute industry caused the city to grow rapidly. In this period, Dundee also gained prominence due to its marmalade industry and its journalism, giving Dundee its epithet as the city of "jute, jam and journalism". Toponymy The name "Dundee" is of uncertain etymology. It incorporates the place-name element ''dùn'', fort, present in both Scottish Gaelic language, Gaelic and in Brythonic languages such as Pictish. The remainder of the name is less obvious. One possibility is that it com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antarctic Expeditions
The Antarctic (, ; commonly ) is the polar regions of Earth, polar region of Earth that surrounds the South Pole, lying within the Antarctic Circle. It is antipodes, diametrically opposite of the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and other list of Antarctic and Subantarctic islands, island territories located on the Antarctic Plate or south of the Antarctic Convergence. The Antarctic region includes the ice shelf, ice shelves, waters, and all the island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence, a zone approximately wide and varying in latitude seasonally. The region covers some 20 percent of the Southern Hemisphere, of which 5.5 percent (14 million km2) is the surface area of the Antarctica continent itself. All of the land and ice shelf, ice shelves south of 60th parallel south, 60°S latitude are administered under the Antarctic Treaty System. Biogeograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whaling In Scotland
The first evidence for whaling in Scotland is from Bronze Age in Scotland, Bronze Age settlements where whalebones were used for constructing and decorating dwelling places. Commercial whaling started in the Middle Ages in Scotland, Middle Ages, and by the 1750s most Scottish ports were whaling, with the Edinburgh Whale-Fishing Company being founded in 1749. The last company still engaged in whaling was Christian Salvesen, which exited the industry in 1963. History In the 19th century Arctic bowhead whale, bowhead whaling, conducted from ports right along the east coast of the country, was vital for the Scottish jute industry, especially for processing jute fibre in Dundee. Whale oil was also used for street lighting. The two main Scottish ports were Dundee and Peterhead. Greenock was the only significant whaling port on the west coast. Whaling was also conducted on the west coast. A station at Bun Abhainn Eadarra near Tarbert, Harris, Tarbert in the Outer Hebrides was founded b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Antarctic Expeditions
This list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in the 1st century AD, the South Pole was not reached until 1911. Pre-exploration theories * 600 BC – 300 BC – Greek philosophers theorize Spherical Earth with North and South Polar regions. * 150 AD – Ptolemy published '' Geographia'', which notes Terra Australis Incognita. Pre-19th century * 13th century – Polynesians settle Auckland Islands (50° S) * 1501–1502 – Gonçalo Coelho and Amerigo Vespucci possibly sail to (52° S) * 1522 – Juan Sebastián de El Cano – first circumnavigation Fernando de Magallanes discovers Strait of Magellan (54° S) * 1526 – Francisco de Hoces reportedly blown south from Strait of Magellan to (56° S). He discovers the Drake Passage or Mar de Hoces. * 1578 – Francis Drake claims to have discovered an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundee Island
Dundee Island () is an ice-covered island lying east of the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and south of Joinville Island, Antarctica. Location Dundee Island is in the Joinville Island group in Graham Land. It is south of Joinville Island and east of the Trinity Peninsula, which in turn is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is separated from Joinville Island by Active Sound and the Firth of Tay, and separated from Trinity Peninsula by the Antarctic Sound. Features include the Petrel Base (Argentina) and Cape Purvis in the south. Nearby features include Eden Rocks and Paulet Island. Early history Dundee Island was discovered on January 8, 1893 by Captain Thomas Robertson of the ''Active'' and named for the home port, Dundee, Scotland, from whence the ship sailed in company with three other vessels in search of whales. It is from this island that the American businessman Lincoln Ellsworth, accompanied by the pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, took off o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
