Jungle, desert, ice : Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch
thesis
posted on 2006-01-01, 00:00authored bySusan Lizabeth. Blackwood
Between 1884 and 1920 the Society was part of an intense period of international geographical interest, imperialism and nationalism. This empirical history shows that the Society sought to explore New Guinea, Northern and Central Australia, and Antarctica, pursuing issues of land use, labour and commercial development of these regions.