James Kerguelen Robinson
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| death_place = Murchison, Western Australia, Australia
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Jane Parsons Bentley
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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.J. Robinson. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120206155915/http://www.cerchi.net/destinations/2002_sioe/sioe_kerguelen.html Appendix B: Log of the Offley.] In: Reminiscences. Hobart: Archives Office of Tasmania, 1906. pp. 98-99. (Transcribed and edited by D. Cerchi.){{cite book|author=R. K. Headland|title=Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sg49AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA177|year=1989|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-30903-5|pages=177–}}
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.{{cite book|author=Briton Cooper Busch|title=The War Against the Seals: A History of the North American Seal Fishery|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4WF3PTh4kQC&pg=PA179|year=1987|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-0610-7|pages=179–}}
He married Alice Maud Wakefield in 1889.
Robinson died of dehydration in Murchison in 1914 while he was prospecting in the western Australian desert.{{cite book|title=The American Neptune|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=82zVAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Peabody Museum of Salem}}{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Chipman|title=Women on the Ice: A History of Women in the Far South|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2G0KAQAAIAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Melbourne University Press|isbn=978-0-522-84324-8}}{{cite book|title=Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rT0tAAAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Royal Society of Tasmania.}}
See also
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External links
- [https://www.geni.com/people/James-Kerguelen-Robinson/6000000097054293997 Geni profile]
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Category:Australian prospectors
Category:Deaths by dehydration