Henry Dunlop

Henry Dunlop (1907)

Henry Joseph Long Dunlop (born October 15, 1876 in Belfast , † March 5, 1931 ibid), called Harry , was a British engineer who took part in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) to Antarctica .

Life

family

Dunlop was the third of eight children to the chief cashier at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Northern Ireland . In 1912 he became general manager of the African Oil & Cake Mills Company in Liverpool and in 1914 married his wife Ethel Jane Ward. Their daughter Patricia was born in 1918.

Nimrod expedition

Dunlop took part in the Nimrod expedition led by Ernest Shackleton . He was friends with Shackleton and contributed a loan to finance the expedition, which Shackleton never repaid. During the expedition, in addition to his work as a ship engineer on board the Nimrod, together with the mechanic Bernard Day (1884–1934), he was responsible for the operation of the automobile he had brought with him. After landing at Cape Royds , he was also involved in the construction of the expedition hut. However, Dunlop was not part of the team that wintered in Antarctica, but drove back to New Zealand with the Nimrod at the end of January 1908 . When the expedition ship returned to McMurdo Sound in the spring of 1909, Dunlop was one of the crew who resumed the landing crew.

Shackleton named Dunlop Island ( 77 ° 14 ′  S , 163 ° 30 ′  E ) in McMurdo Sound and immediately off the east coast of Victoria Land in his honor . In addition, Cape Dunlop ( 77 ° 14 ′  S , 163 ° 27 ′  E ) to the east of the island also bears his name.

literature

• Beau Riffenburgh: Nimrod . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8270-0530-2 .
• John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 .

Web links

• The “Who's Who” of the Nimrod Expedition Information on coolantarctica.com (accessed December 1, 2009)