Percival Gray (5 January 1889 – November 1944) was an Australian naval officer. During his early career he served on the Worcester and the Archibald Russell, and then joined the New Zealand Shipping Company.
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From 1909 to 1911, he worked for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. During this time he attained his first officer's certificate.[1]
From 1911 to 1914, during the Australasian Antarctic expedition, he served as second and navigating officer aboard the SY Aurora, under John King Davis, for all five cruises.[2]
Cape Gray, in King George V Land in Antarctica, was named after him by Sir Douglas Mawson.
References
edit- ^ Mawson, Douglas (1996) [1915], The home of the blizzard: the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914, Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, p. 8, ISBN 978-1-86254-377-5
- ^ Davis, John King (1919), With the "Aurora" in the Antarctic, 1911–1914, London: A. Melrose, p. 170