Cape York Peninsula: agriculture?

Hansen, Annette

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Cape York Peninsula: agriculture?

Date

1979

Authors

Hansen, Annette

Publisher

University of Sydney

Abstract

Although contact between Europeans and the Cape York Peninsula Aborigines was infrequent before the latter half of the nineteenth century early travellers to the region often remarked on the obvious contrasts between the lifestyles of the Peninsula groups and those of their northern neighbours in the Torres Strait and across in southern Papua New Guinea