Norman Toutcher

Norman Champion Toutcher (1884–1924) was a sailor, mainly known for his time as chief officer of the SY Aurora during the 1911–1914 Australasian Antarctic expedition, under Captain John King Davis.

Toutcher joined the expedition in Cardiff, and sailed to Australia, where the expedition proper started. He accompanied the Aurora on its first Antarctic voyage—south from Hobart to Macquarie Island, on to the Antarctic mainland to drop off the land parties, and back to Australia.^[1]

However, Davis thought Toutcher a "hopeless fool", and he was replaced by Frank D. Fletcher on 12 March 1912, when the Aurora arrived back in Hobart.

Cape Toutcher, on the west coast of Macquarie Island, is named after him.

References

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

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