Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis

Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis ( born January 22, 1887 † December 14, 1912 at Adelie Land ) was a British polar explorer who accompanied Douglas Mawson on his polar expedition ( 1911-1914 ).

Family background

Already Ninnis ' father, Belgrave Ninnis (1837-1922) was a polar explorer. He participated in the expedition of George Nares into the Arctic Ocean from 1875 to 1876. His cousin Aubrey Howard Ninnis (1883-1956), in turn, was the engineer aboard the Aurora, the expedition ship the Ross Sea Party led by Ernest Shackleton during the Endurance expedition.

Ninnis himself had taken originally a military career. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers.

The Australian Antarctic Expedition

In 1911, he joined Douglas Mawson on in the expedition to the Antarctic. Ninnis was responsible for the Greenlandic sled dogs. Together with the Swiss Xavier Mertz and Mawson expedition leader was Ninnis in a three -man expedition team explored the Antarctic areas of dog sledding in the summer. In December 1912, came here in a fatal accident. Ninnis fell with a majority of the inventories and some sled dogs into a crevasse and found death. Mawson wrote later in his expedition report about this moment:

On the return march finally came Mertz died. In the absence of other stocks this and Mawson fed on the dogs. The radical vegetarians Mertz not coped with the transition to a meat diet.

Naming

At Ninnis remember many Antarctic field names such as the Ninnis Glacier.