Clarence Petersen de la Motte

Clarence Petersen de la Motte (born 1892) was a sailor originally from Bulli, New South Wales. During his early career, he served aboard the New Zealand barque Northern Chief and the steamship Warrimoo. From 1911 to 1914, during the Australasian Antarctic expedition, he served as Third Officer aboard the SY Aurora, under John King Davis.[1][2]

De la Motte c. 1914

Douglas Mawson named Cape De la Motte, in George V Land, after him. De la Motte joined the Aurora again in 1916, and served as First Officer during the rescue of the Ross Sea party of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, for which he was later awarded the Polar Medal.

References

Davis, John King (1919), With the "Aurora" in the Antarctic, 1911–1914, London: A. Melrose, p. 170
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

Australasian Antarctic Expedition

Personnel

Main Base party	Bob Bage Frank Bickerton John Close Percy Correll Walter Hannam Alfred Hodgeman John Hunter Frank Hurley Sidney Jeffryes Charles Laseron Cecil Madigan Douglas Mawson Archibald McLean Xavier Mertz Herbert Murphy Belgrave Ninnis Frank Stillwell Eric Webb Leslie Whetter
Western Base party	Charles Dovers Charles Harrisson Charles Hoadley Sydney Jones Alexander Kennedy Morton Moyes Andrew Watson Frank Wild
Macquarie Island party	George Ainsworth Leslie Blake Harold Hamilton Charles Sandell Arthur Sawyer
SY Aurora officers	John H. Blair John King Davis Frank D. Fletcher F. J. Gillies Percival Gray Clarence Petersen de la Motte Norman Toutcher
Other	Hugh Evelyn Watkins

Parties and vessels

Far Eastern Party
SY Aurora
Western Base Party

Places

Other

Adélie Land meteorite
Air-tractor sledge
Dogs
Mawson's Huts

Category

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