Percival Gray

Percival Gray (born c. 1889) was an English sailor. During his early career he served on the Worcester and the Archibald Russell, and then joined the New Zealand Shipping Company. From 1909 to 1911, he worked for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.^[1] During this time he attained his First Officer's certificate.^[2] From 1911 to 1914, during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), he served as Second and navigating Officer aboard the SY Aurora, under John King Davis, for all five cruises.^[3]

Cape Gray, in King George V Land in Antarctica, was named after him by AAE Commander Douglas Mawson.^[4]

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Australasian Antarctic Expedition Personnel Main Base party Bob Bage Frank Bickerton John Close Percy Correll Walter Hannam Alfred Hodgeman John Hunter Frank Hurley Sidney Jeffryes Charles Laseron Cecil Madigan Douglas Mawson Archibald McLean Xavier Mertz Herbert Murphy B. E. S. Ninnis Frank Stillwell Eric Webb Leslie Whetter Western Base party Charles Dovers Charles Harrisson Charles Hoadley Sydney Jones Alexander Kennedy Morton Moyes Andrew Watson Frank Wild Macquarie Island party George Ainsworth Leslie Blake Harold Hamilton Charles Sandell Arthur Sawyer SY Aurora officers John H. Blair John King Davis Frank D. Fletcher F. J. Gillies Percival Gray Clarence Petersen de la Motte Norman Toutcher Other Hugh Evelyn Watkins Parties and vessels Far Eastern Party SY Aurora Western Base Party Places Adélie Land Cape Denison Commonwealth Bay King George V Land Macquarie Island Mertz Glacier Ninnis Glacier Queen Mary Land Shackleton Ice Shelf Wireless Hill Other Adélie Land meteorite Air-tractor sledge Mawson's Huts Category