James "Scotty" Paton (1869–1917 or 18) was a Scots-born seaman who sailed to the Antarctic in several major expeditions between 1902 and 1917. His first venture was from 1902 to 1904 as a crewman of Captain William Colbeck's SY Morning. This expedition consisted of two voyages and was sent as a relief ship for the Captain Scott's Discovery Expedition. During the first voyage the ship was briefly stalled in the ice between Cape Bird and Beaufort Island. Scotty Paton took the opportunity to leave ship and jump floes a distance of one mile to 'land' of Beaufort Island, the first man to do so. This accomplishment was received with a reprimand. In 1907–09 he was a crew member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition during each of Nimrod's two southern voyages. From 1910 to 1913 he was a seaman aboard Captain Scott's Terra Nova during her two voyages between New Zealand and Cape Evans, in support of Scott's ill-fated expedition. In 1914 he joined the Ross Sea party section of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition as boatswain on the Aurora. He was aboard ship on 7 May 1915 when Aurora was torn from her Cape Evans moorings, drifting in the pack for nine months before limping back to New Zealand.