The Diana was a whaler ship, that was part of the Dundee whaling expedition in 1892 to 93 and visited the Joinville island area.

Its master was Robert Davison. The ship was built in Drammen, Norway and was a steam screw Barque of 341 GRT, she sailed from Dundee, Scotland to the Antarctic peninsula in northern Antarctica. They sailed nearby to the Dundee island , off the coast the peninsula, which was later named after the city the ships sailed from.

In 1956, the Diana reef, on Dundee island, was named after the ship by the UK Antarctic place-names committee.[1]

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  1. ^ "Antarctica Detail". 2021-06-02. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2024-03-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)