RRS Discovery

Le RRS Discovery est un navire britannique, trois-mâts barque à propulsion mixte, conçu pour la recherche en Antarctique (RRS est un préfixe de navire pour Royal Research Ship). Lancé le 21 mars 1901, il fut le dernier trois-mâts en bois construit dans les îles Britanniques. Sa première mission fut d'amener Robert Falcon Scott et Ernest Shackleton pour leur premier voyage en Antarctique, l'Expédition nationale Antarctique, plus connue sous le nom d'expédition Discovery. Le navire est actuellement un musée dans le port de Dundee en Écosse. C'est la visite de ce bateau lorsqu'il était amarré à Londres, qui inspira l'écrivain Arthur C. Clarke de nommer du même nom le vaisseau spatial à destination de Jupiter dans son roman 2001 : L'Odyssée de l'espace. Ce nom fut ensuite repris par la NASA pour nommer une de ses navettes spatiales.

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RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom. Her first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first, and highly successful, journey to the Antarctic, known as the Discovery Expedition. After service as a merchant ship before and during the First World War, Discovery was taken into the service of the British government in 1923 to carry out scientific research in the Southern Ocean, becoming the first Royal Research Ship. The ship undertook a two-year expedition – the Discovery Investigations – recording valuable information on the oceans, marine life and being the first scientific investigation into whale populations. From 1929 to 1931 Discovery served as the base for the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Douglas Mawson. This was a major scientific and territorial quest in what is now the Australian Antarctic Territory. On her return from the BANZARE, Discovery was moored in London as a static training ship and visitor attraction until 1979. That year she was placed in the care of the Maritime Trust as a museum ship. In 1986 she was moved to Dundee, the city where she was built. After an extensive restoration, Discovery is now the centrepiece of a visitor attraction in the city. She is one of only two surviving expedition ships from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, the other being the Norwegian ship Fram. The ARA Uruguay, which survives and sailed in the Antarctic in 1903, is excluded from this group, as it was not built specifically for Antarctic Exploration.

V&A Dundee

V&A Dundee is a design museum in Dundee, Scotland, which opened on 15 September 2018. The V&A Dundee is the first design museum in Scotland and the first Victoria and Albert museum outside London. The V&A Dundee is also the first building in the United Kingdom designed by Kengo Kuma, whose vision was for a 'living room for the city'.

Olympia Leisure Centre (1974)

The Olympia Leisure Centre was a swimming pool in Dundee.

Dundee West railway station

Dundee West railway station served the city of Dundee, Scotland, from 1847 to 1965 on the Dundee and Perth Railway. Author John Minnis has described demolition of the "wonderful" station building (built between 1889 and 1890) as "perhaps the most tragic loss" of a piece of railway architecture in Scotland.

Dundee railway station

Dundee railway station serves the city of Dundee on the east coast of Scotland. It is situated on the northern, non-electrified section of the East Coast Main Line, 59+1⁄4 miles (95.4 km) northeast of Edinburgh. Dundee is the tenth busiest station in Scotland. In January 2014, the former main station building was demolished to make way for a new building as part of the Dundee Waterfront Project which opened on 9 July 2018. Dundee railway station is where the Edinburgh–Dundee line meets the Glasgow–Dundee line, via Perth, to form the Dundee to Aberdeen line.