Nimrod Expedition / Crew List
The crew list of the Nimrod expedition (1907–1909) is shown here. Participation in previous expeditions, achievements during the Nimrod expedition and special characteristics of the expedition participants are listed under "Comments".
| Surname | origin | task | Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landing Team - Southern Group . Reached 88 ° 23 ′ S, 162 ° 0 ′ E on January 9, 1909 | ||||||
| Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) | Ireland | Expedition leader, leader of the southern group | Participants of the Discovery Expedition | |||
| Jameson Adams (1880–1962) | England | Deputy expedition leader, meteorologist | First ascent of Mount Erebus on March 9, 1908 | |||
| Frank Wild (1873-1939) | England | Provisioner | Participant of the Discovery Expedition, typesetter and printer of the Aurora Australis expedition book | |||
| Eric Marshall (1879-1963) | England | Chief expedition doctor, cartographer | First ascent of Mount Erebus on March 9, 1908 | |||
| Landing Team - Northern Group . Reached 72 ° 15 ′ S, 155 ° 16 ′ E on January 16, 1909 | ||||||
| Edgeworth David (1858-1934) | Wales | Senior geologist, head of the northern group | First ascent of Mount Erebus on March 9, 1908 | |||
| Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) | England | Geologist, physicist | First ascent of Mount Erebus on March 9, 1908 | |||
| Alistair Mackay (1878-1914) | Scotland | surgeon | First ascent of Mount Erebus on March 9, 1908 | |||
| Landing Team - Western Group . Ferrar Glacier and Taylor Valley from December 1908 to January 1909 | ||||||
| Bertram Armytage (1869-1910) | Australia | Overseer of the ponies, leader of the western group | ||||
| Philip Brocklehurst (1887-1975) | England | geologist | First ascent of Mount Erebus on March 9, 1908 (summit not reached) | |||
| Raymond Priestley (1886–1974) | England | geologist | ||||
| Landing Crew - Cape Royds (Base Camp) | ||||||
| Ernest Joyce (1875-1940) | England | Overseer of sleds and dogs | Participant of the Discovery Expedition, typesetter and printer of the Aurora Australis expedition book | |||
| George Marston (1882-1940) | England | Expedition draftsman | Illustrator of the expedition book Aurora Australis | |||
| James Murray (1865-1914) | England | Chief Biologist | Head of base camp in the absence of Shackleton, Adams, and David | |||
| Bernard Day (1884-1934) | England | Engine expert, driver of the car | ||||
| William Roberts (1872 – unknown) | England | cook | ||||
| Crew of the Nimrod | ||||||
| Rupert England (1878-1942) | England | Captain 1 , 2 | was released from Shackleton at the end of the outward journey | |||
| Frederick Pryce Evans (1874-1959) | New Zealand | Captain 2 , 3 | Captain on the return journey; Captain on the Koonya on the outward journey | |||
| John King Davis (1884-1967) | Australia | First Officer, 1 , 2 , 3 Captain 4 | Captain of the Nimrod during the search for the sub-Antarctic Phantom Islands between Australia and Cape Horn and the subsequent return to England from May to August 1909 | |||
| Aeneas Mackintosh (1879-1916) | Scotland | Second officer, 1 , 2 navigation officer 3 | was scheduled for the landing crew, but had to return to New Zealand after an accident; returned to the target area with the Nimrod in January 1909 | |||
| Arthur Edward Harbord (1883–1961) | England | deputy second officer, 1 , 2 second officer, 3 first officer 4 | ||||
| Sydney Richardson (1881 - unknown) | England | Second officer 4 | ||||
| Alfred Cheetham (1867-1918) | England | Third officer and chief boatman 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 | Discovery expedition participants | |||
| Harry Dunlop (1876-1931) | Ireland | Chief Engineer 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 | ||||
| Christian Craft (1871 – after 1940) | England | Engineer 1 , 2 | ||||
| David Nelson (1876 - unknown) | England | Engineer 3 , 4 | ||||
| Charles Hunt (1878 - unknown) | England | Engineer 3 , 4 | ||||
| Hugh McGowan (1882 - unknown) | Ireland | Engineer 1 , 2 | ||||
| Rupert Michell (1879–1966) | Canada | Ship's doctor 1 , 2 , 3 | ||||
| J. Hancock (1878 - unknown) | England | Chief Steward 2 | ||||
| William Drummond Ansell (1886-1947) | New Zealand | Second steward 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 | ||||
| Murdoch M. McRae (1867 - unknown) | Australia | Third steward 1 | ||||
| John Thomas Montague (1869-1927) | England | Ship's cook 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 | ||||
| Edward Morrison (1870 - unknown) | Scotland | Senior sailmaker 1 , 2 | ||||
| Michael Thomas McGillion (1888–1962) | New Zealand | Sailmaker 3 | March with Mackintosh from the Nimrod to Cape Royds over breaking sea ice between January 3 and 12, 1909 | |||
| William Richard Meyrick (1880-1958) | New Zealand | Sailmaker 3 | ||||
| Walter George Bilsby (1872–1930) | England | Ship carpenter 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 | ||||
| James Paton (1869–1917/18) | Scotland | Able seaman 2 , 3 , 4 | ||||
| Frederick George Abraham (1885 – late 1950s) | England | Ordinary seaman 3 | ||||
| Victor Berry (1884-1935) | England | Ordinary seaman 1 , 2 | ||||
| John Brolly (1886 – unknown) | United States | Ordinary seaman 4 | ||||
| Alfred B. Bull (1887 - unknown) | England | Ordinary seaman 3 , 4 | ||||
| Harold Boyer Bull (1884-1943) | Australia | Ordinary seaman 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 | ||||
| Ernest Watson Ellis (1878-1959) | England | Ordinary seaman 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 | ||||
| George Richard Kemp (1863 - unknown) | England | Ordinary seaman 1 | ||||
| John McMillan (1884 - unknown) | Scotland | Ordinary seaman 4 | ||||
| Richard Henry Nodder (1876 - unknown) | England | Ordinary seaman 3 , 4 | ||||
| Ernest Reynard (1885–1955) | England | Ordinary seaman 4 | ||||
| G. Rooney (1883 - unknown) | New Zealand | Ordinary seaman 3 , 4 | ||||
| Walter Spice (1863 - unknown) | England | Ordinary seaman 1 | ||||
| W. Williams (1887 - unknown) | Australia | Ordinary seaman 3 , 4 | ||||
| D. Donovan (1882 - unknown) | Ireland | Heater 2 | ||||
| H. Holmes (1874 - unknown) | England | Heater 1 | ||||
| Robert McNeil (1878 - unknown) | England | Heater 3 | ||||
| John Stuart Partridge (1885-1954) | New Zealand | Heater 2 | ||||
| Sidney Barnes Riches (1880-1929) | England | Heater 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 | ||||
| Felix Rooney (1885-1965) | Scotland | Heater 1 , 2 | ||||
| A. Schofield (1875 - unknown) | England | Heater 1 | ||||
| M. Vaughan (1881 - unknown) | New Zealand | Heater 4 | ||||
| Guests on board the Nimrod / other employees | ||||||
| George Alexander McLean Buckley (1866-1937) | New Zealand | Guest on board 2 | Part of the financing of the expedition (£ 500), return to New Zealand on the Koonya (January 1908) | |||
| Leo Arthur Cotton (1883-1963) | Australia | Geologist, guest on board 2 | Return to New Zealand with the Nimrod (February 1908) | |||
| Alfred Reid (1861–1957) | England | Managing Director of the expedition in England | ||||
| Herbert Dorman | England | Expedition advocate in England | Brother of Shackleton's wife, Emily | |||
| Joseph James Kinsey (1852-1936) | New Zealand | Expedition agent in New Zealand | ||||
1 from London to Lyttelton (August – December 1907)
2 from Lyttelton to Antarctica and back (January – March 1908)
3 from Lyttelton to Antarctica and back (December 1908 - March 1909)
4th from Lyttelton to Sydney and then to London (March – August 1909)
swell
- Beau Riffenburgh: Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod . Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004, ISBN 1-58234-488-4 , pp. xxiii – xxiv ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6
- British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. Information on coolantarctica.com (English)
Remarks
The names and dates of life were usually taken from Riffenburgh's list of expedition participants and supplemented with additional information from Stewart, if necessary. However, Riffenburgh's and Stewart's statements sometimes differ. Additional sources were consulted in individual cases.
- ↑ According to Stewart, England was born in 1877 but was not baptized until January 23, 1878.
- ↑ According to Stewart, the year of birth is 1875.
- ↑ According to Stewart, the correct spelling is McGeown and the year of birth is 1875.
- ^ According to Stewart: Henry Handcock, born May 20, 1855.
- ↑ Riffenburgh gives 1885 as the year of birth, but no year of death.
- ↑ According to Stewart, the year of birth is 1885, not a year of death.
- ↑ According to Stewart; Riffenburgh names 1883 as the year of birth, but does not name the year of death.
- ^ A b According to Stewart, Alfred Benjamin Bull was born on May 2, 1885 in Oatlands , Tasmania , and according to Riffenburgh in 1887 in London.
- ↑ Mr. HB Bull Dies . In: The Daily News (Perth) , October 16, 1943, p. 16; Riffenburgh gives the name Henry B. Bull, Stewart the year of death as 1942.
- ↑ Harold Bo w yer Bull, according to staff. In: The Western Australian (Perth) , October 18, 1943.
- ↑ According to Stewart, the year of birth is 1862.
- ↑ Information according to Stewart, who mentions May 24, 1876 as his birthday; Riffenburgh gives 1878 as the year of birth. Born in January 1877, and died on August 25, 1910, according to genealogy.com .
- ↑ According to Stewart; Riffenburgh writes the name E. Reynart and does not give a year of death.
- ↑ According to Stewart, the year of birth is 1882.
- ↑ According to Stewart; Riffenburgh only gives the first name with W. and mentions 1883 as the year of birth.
- ↑ According to Stewart, the year of birth is 1886.
- ↑ According to Stewart, the year of birth is 1887.
- ↑ According to Stewart H. Vaughan.