Ninnis

'Ninnis is mustering with Moongarr Bill and the others, a good way off, and they're camping out to-night ....

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

The dogs became a food resource after Ninnis, his dog team and the sledge they were pulling fell into a crevasse and were lost, along with most of the food supply.

Into the Wild ... 2008

Xavier Ninnis replied to comment from Paul Burnett

Heliconia - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Hooke and Ninnis worked hard at the wireless plant with the object of getting into touch with Macquarie

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

Ninnis has been busy now for the week on the construction of a new tractor.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

Ninnis and Kavenagh took a long walk to the north – west, and found the deserted rookery.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

I ordered steam on main engines, and the engine – room staff, with Hooke and Ninnis, turned to.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

We returned to our original landing, and were fortunate in our time, for no sooner had we cleared the ledge where Ninnis had been hanging in his endeavour to catch the penguin than the barrier calved and a piece weighing hundreds of tons toppled over into the sea.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

There are only four of the original eleven on board — Larkman, Ninnis, Mauger, and I.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

It was but one of many hundred similar ones we had crossed and had no specially dangerous appearance, but still I turned quickly round, called out a warning word to Ninnis and then dismissed it from my thoughts.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920