North New Guinea Expedition

North New Guinea Expedition
Arthur Wichmann and his expedition member.

The North New Guinea Expedition (1903) was a Dutch expedition to the still largely unknown north coast of Dutch New Guinea for the purposes of scientific exploration and to seek exploitable coal resources.

Literature

  • Beaufort, L.F. de, Birds from Dutch New Guinea (Nova Guinea 5, boek 3). Leiden 1909, pp. 389–421.
  • Lorentz, H.A., Eenige maanden onder de Papoea's. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1905.
  • Sande, G.A.J. van der, Ethnography and Anthropology (Nova Guinea 3). Leiden, 1906.
  • Schmeltz, J.D.E., Gids voor de tentoonstelling van de ethnographische verzameling der Noord-Nieuw-Guinea-Expeditie 1903. Leiden: S.C. van Doesburgh, 1907.
  • Wichmann, A., Bericht über eine im Jahre 1903 ausgeführte Reise nach Neu-Guinea. (Nova Guinea 4). Leiden, 1917.

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