Commander
Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882–1916) was a Royal Navy officer who served on the
Terra Nova Expedition. He was responsible for the first sighting of
Oates Coast on 22 February 1911, and named it after Captain
Lawrence Oates. He only spent short periods in Antarctica, returning with the
Terra Nova to wait out the winters of 1911 and 1912 in Lyttelton, New Zealand, and bringing fresh supplies back to Antarctica with each voyage. Pennell was promoted to Commander and assigned to
HMS Queen Mary in the summer of 1914, and died 31 May 1916 in the
Battle of Jutland, when the ship was sunk by the German ships
SMS Seydlitz and
SMS Derfflinger.