Dundas

Dundas, (1) a baronial castle, dating from the 11th to 15th centuries, with modern additions, on the south bank of the Firth of Forth, near South Queensferry, the seat from about 1124 till 1875 of the family of Dundas.—(2) A town of Wentworth county, Ontario, at the head of Burlington Bay, at the west of Lake Ontario, with a number of mills and manufactories. Pop. 3709.—(3) An island of British Columbia, 40 miles NE. of Queen Charlotte Island, and separated by Chatham Sound from the most southerly of the Alaskan islands.—(4) A group of nearly 500 islets (also called the Juba Islands), all of coralline formation, lying off the east coast of Africa, in about 1° S. lat., with only one secure harbour.—(5) A strait in North Australia, separating Melville Island from Coburg Peninsula, about 18 miles broad.