Article ID: CBB395559608

CSIRO and Land Research in Papua New Guinea 1950–2000: Part 1: Pre-Independence (2019)

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During the period 1953–69, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) conducted fourteen integrated land resource surveys in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea with the aim of identifying areas suitable for accelerated development. The resulting reconnaissance-level regional survey reports and maps provided extensive baseline information for national development planning. Related disciplinary publications expanded scientific knowledge of land resources and resource use in the wet tropics more generally. Substantial botanical collections carried out during the surveys contributed to building the Papua New Guinea (PNG) national collection at the Lae Herbarium and to the establishment of what is now the Australian National Herbarium.

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Authors & Contributors
Margaret H. Friedel
Dowe, John Leslie
Stephen R. Morton
Orchiston, Wayne
Maroske, Sara
Andel, Tinde van
Journals
Historical Records of Australian Science
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
History of Science
Archives of Natural History
Publishers
NatureBureau
The MIT Press
Miegunyah Press
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Princeton University
Concepts
Botany
Collectors and collecting
Herbarium; herbaria
Land use
Biological specimens
Biographies
People
Dallachy, John
Anderson, Joan Mary
Fraser, Robert Donald Bruce
Palanza, Alfonso
Mittag-Leffler, Magnus Gustaf
Bowman, Edward Macarthur
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
Early modern
Modern
18th century
Places
Australia
Sydney (Australia)
Tropics
Levant and Near East
Papua New Guinea
Tasmania (Australia)
Institutions
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)
Australian National University
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Cambridge University
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