MAWSON FOR ANTARCTIC
FIRST OFFICER CHOSEN CAPTAIN J. K. DAVIS CANBERRA, Friday. It is authoritatively stated that Captain J. K. Davis, Commonwealth Director of Navigation, has been appointed to command the Discovery in Sir Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic expedition.
The Federal Government will immediately appeal to scientific and semiscientific public bodies to contribute toward the venture. Captain John King Davis, who is now 46 years old, probably knows more about navigation in the South Polar seas than any seaman of the present day. At the age of 24 he was chief officer of the Nimrod in Sir Ernest Shackelton’s expedition of 1907-9. Tie went south again with Sir Douglas Mawson as captain of the Aurora in the 1911-3 4 expedition. Later, in 1916, he commanded the Ross Sea Relief Expedition. He is an “extra-master” and holds a commission as Lieut.-Commander in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 596, 23 February 1929, Page 9
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