Between wealth and poverty: Otto Finsch on Mabuyag, 1881

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2015

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Howes, Hilary

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Queensland Museum

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The late nineteenth-century German traveller-naturalist Otto Finsch (1839-1917) visited Torres Strait from October 1881 to January 1882 as part of a far longer Pacific voyage, which lasted from April 1879 to November 1882. I discuss his impressions and experiences of Mabuyag (Mabuiag Island, also known as Jervis Island), particularly its natural history and the cultural and social life of its inhabitants.

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Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Cultural Heritage Series

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