IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0402 AHN
Held at: Royal Geographical Society
Title: NINNIS, Aubrey Howard (fl 1914-1917)
Date(s): 1914-1962
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s): Ninnis | Aubrey Howard | d 1956 | Antarctic explorer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Aubrey Howard Ninnis was commissioned as purser in SS AURORA on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916, he was intended for the shore party but stranded when the AURORA broke adrift. He was on the Aurora Relief Expedition, 1916-1917; he died in New Zealand in 1956.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Journals, charts and other papers relating to A H Ninnis' commission as purser in SS AURORA on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916 and the Relief Expedition, 1916-1917.
The papers include diaries of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition, 23 Dec 1914-12 Feb 1917, with a single volume typescript summary of the diaries; notebook entitled 'The Log of Taroona Camp, H E Wild and A H N with the 26 and stores for dog teams' including notes of equipment and stores for the dog teams; list of the dogs' names and a journal headed 'RMS Ionic, Hobart, Ocean Quay', 31 Oct-24 Dec 1914; copies of letters from Ninnis including to Ernest Shackleton, 6 Jan-5 Feb 1920 and to John Lachlan Cope, 9 Jun 1920; press cuttings, 1919-1920; papers reviewing Antarctic exploration achieved and proposals for another expedition under J L Cope in TERRA NOVA, for 1923; printed prospectus of Cope's Antarctic expedition; Ninnis' certificate of discharge made out at Wellington, New Zealand, Feb 1917; three large charts titled 'Map of the Antarctic East Longitude 150°-180° showing drift of SY Aurora', 1931 (the three are similar but two have small insets of landscape sketches); small chart entitled 'Map of the Bay of Whales', from a survey by Blackburn and Coman, Byrd Antarctic expedition, 1929-1930, with a second sketch map showing the route of Byrd's polar flight; three volumes of uncorrected typescript of High Latitude by J K Davis.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in the Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying at the discretion of the Archivist,and subject to completing 'application for copies' form. No reproduction without the permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.
Finding aids:
Hand list and card index.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Bequeathed by Ninnis, 1956; typescripts of High Latitude were received in 1962.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of copies:
Papers 1, 3 and 4 have been microfilmed for Canterbury Museum of Christchurch, New Zealand, Nov 1981.
Print outs of scans from the Ross Sea Party photo albums are kept in the RGS.
Related material:
Ninnis' photograph albums of the SS Aurora and Antarctic, 1914-1917 are in the Picture Library, (ref: G130 a and b).
Ninnis' zoological log and diary relating to the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (copies), 1915-1916 are held at Cambridge University: Scott Polar Research Institute (ref: MS 1590).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Prepared by an Archives volunteer using existing finding aids. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: The biographical information was compiled using a Google search and is not authoritative.
Date(s) of descriptions: 8 November 2001; 2008.