Person

Gray, Percival (1889 - 1944)

Born
5 January 1889
Died
November 1944
Occupation
Antarctic explorer and Navigator

Summary

Percival Gray was a merchant marine officer, serving with the Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company and the New Zealand Shipping Company before joining the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. During the Expedition he was Second Officer and navigator on S.Y. Aurora, commanded by John King Davis, participating in the oceanographic cruises and the relief on the shore parties. Cape Gray, King George V Land, Antarctica, was named in his honour.

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Chronology

1909 - 1911
Career position - 3rd Officer, Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company
1911 - 1914
Career position - 2nd Officer, S.Y. Aurora, Australasian Antarctic Expedition
1915
Award - Polar Medal (Silver)

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Percival Gray - Records, 1911 - 1914, ML MSS 2893; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Moyes, Morton; Gray, Percival; Mawson, Douglas, Records of the Queen Mary Land station; [together with] Meteorological log of the S.Y. Aurora; Sledge journey weather records; appendix: Macquarie Island weather notes for 1909-1910-1911 (Sydney: Government Printer, 1939), 279 pp. Details

Resources

See also

  • Dartnall, H. J. G., 'Antarctic vignettes VII: unsung heroes - researching the crew of the S.Y. Aurora 1911 - 1914', Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 148 (2014), 11-5. https://doi.org/10.26749/rstpp.148.11. Details
  • Davis, J. K., With the Aurora in the Antarctic, 1911 - 1914 (London: Andrew Melrose, 1919), 183 pp. Details
  • Mawson, Douglas, The home of the blizzard: being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 - 1914, 2 vols (London: J.B. Lippincott: Heinemann, 1915). Details
  • Quilty, P. G.; and Goddard, P. H., 'The lower deck on Aurora H. V. Goddard's diary, 1913-14', Polar record, 40 (3) (2004), 193-203. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003224740300336X. Details

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