James Kerguelen Robinson

James Kerguelen Robinson was an Australian prospector who was the first person born south of the Antarctic Convergence. Robinson Pass was named after him. He is the only person known to have been born on the Kerguelen Islands.

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.