Ship’s engineer Gordon Burt, of Dunedin, holds the New Zealand flag alongside exploration ship Island (named after the island of Iceland) in the far north Arctic Ocean as skipper Cmdr Frank Worsley (right) salutes. — Otago Witness, 12.1.1926. Although the little ship has not yet reached England, news of what is now to be called the "British Arctic Expedition, 1925," was received from one member of the expedition at present in London, having come from Spitzbergen by a Dutch vessel.