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James Kerguelen Robinson (11 March 1859 – 1914) was an Australian prospector who was the first person born south of the Antarctic Convergence. Robinson Pass was named after him.

Life

Robinson was born in March 1859 on the Kerguelen Islands to James William Robinson, a captain and sailor, and his wife Jane Parsons Bentley while the couple was on a sealing voyage in the Antarctic Convergence. Robinson's middle name, Kerguelen, was taken from the island he was born on. Robinson Pass was named after him.

He married Alice Maud Wakefield in 1889.

Robinson died of dehydration in Murchison in 1914 while he was prospecting in the western Australian desert.

See also

• Emilio Palma
• Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen

References

1. J. Robinson. Appendix B: Log of the Offley. In: Reminiscences. Hobart: Archives Office of Tasmania, 1906. pp. 98-99. (Transcribed and edited by D. Cerchi.)
2. ^ R. K. Headland (1989). Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events. Cambridge University Press. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-0-521-30903-5.
3. Briton Cooper Busch (1987). The War Against the Seals: A History of the North American Seal Fishery. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 179–. ISBN 978-0-7735-0610-7.
4. The American Neptune. Peabody Museum of Salem. 1981.
5. Elizabeth Chipman (1986). Women on the Ice: A History of Women in the Far South. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 978-0-522-84324-8.
6. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Royal Society of Tasmania. 1972.

External links

• Geni profile

• 1859 births
• 1914 deaths
• Australian prospectors
• Deaths by dehydration
• Accidental deaths in Western Australia
• Colony of Western Australia people