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RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include V&A Dundee and Dundee railway station.

Museum
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V&A Dundee is a design museum in , 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.

Railway station
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serves the city of on the east coast of . It is situated on the northern, non-electrified section of the East Coast Main Line, 59+1⁄4 miles northeast of . is situated 370 feet west of RRS Discovery.

Museum
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RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dundee and Dundee city centre.

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is an industrial city and port, historically part of county in northeast Scotland. It stands on the north bank of the River Tay, which here broadens out into the North Sea, and in 2022 had a population of 148,000.

Suburb
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Until the Industrial Revolution, the current City Centre represented the full extent of the City of , Scotland. Now roughly encircled by the A991 dual carriageway, the city centre is now the main shopping and commercial district.

Suburb
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is an area of the city of . Broadly, is located to the north of and is centred on the Road, where a number of small, local shops are located.

RRS Discovery

Latitude
56.45692° or 56° 27′ 25″ north
Longitude
-2.96794° or 2° 58′ 5″ west
Inception
1901
Open location code
9C8VF24J+QR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 44384361
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­boat
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ship
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q82257
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“RRS Discovery” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سفينة الأبحاث الملكية ديسكفري”
  • Basque: “RRS Discovery”
  • Catalan: “RRS Discovery”
  • Chinese: “发现号”
  • Chinese: “發現號”
  • Czech: “RRS Discovery”
  • Dutch: “RRS Discovery”
  • French: “RRS Discovery”
  • French: “RSS Discovery”
  • German: “Discovery”
  • German: “RRS Discovery”
  • Hebrew: “דיסקברי”
  • Hebrew: “ספינת המחקר דיסקברי”
  • Italian: “RRS Discovery”
  • Japanese: “RRS ディスカバリー”
  • Japanese: “ディスカヴァリー (調査船・6代)”
  • Japanese: “ディスカバリー号”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “RRS «Discovery»”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “RRS Discovery”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “«Discovery»”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “RRS «Discovery»”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “RRS Discovery”
  • Norwegian: “RRS «Discovery»”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “RRS Discovery”
  • Persian: “آرآراس دیسکاوری”
  • Polish: “RRS Discovery”
  • Portuguese: “RRS Discovery”
  • Russian: “RRS Discovery”
  • Scots: “RRS Discovery”
  • Slovenian: “RRS Discovery”
  • Spanish: “RRS Discovery”
  • Swedish: “RRS Discovery”
  • Swedish: “RSS Discovery”
  • Ukrainian: “RRS Discovery”
  • Wu Chinese: “发现号 (三桅船)”
  • Wu Chinese: “发现号（三桅船）”
  • “RRS Discovery”

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