RRS Discovery wooden three-masted research ship. Captain Scott's Arctic explorer research vessel at Discovery Point, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
RRS Discovery the ship taken to the Antarctic by Robert Falcon Scott and the last wooden three-masted ship to be built in the British Isles was built in Dundee in 1901. It returned to Dundee in April 1986 and is moored next to a purpose-built visitors' centre. The oldest wooden British warship still afloat, the HMS Unicorn, is also moored nearby although it was not built in Dundee. Dundee was also the home port of the Antarctic Dundee whaling expedition of 1892 which discovered Dundee Island, named after the expedition's home port. Dundee, Discovery Point, Tayside Scotland
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Location: Dundee, Discovery Point, Tayside Scotland
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