Unknown N. Guinea
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Young Explorers Plan to Penetrate British and Dutch Territories
SUPPORTED by the Royal Geographical Society, an expedition is being or ganised in England by Mr A. J. Marshall, a Sydney zoologist, to explore Papua and the British and Dutch sections of New Guinea in 1938.
The party will sail from London for Papua in November next. Though their actual route is at present indefinite, they hope to go up the Fly River, in the West ern Division, and across the watershed, through primitive country, to the north coast of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. Then they will seek to penetrate Dutch New Guinea.
Members of the expedition will include Gandar Dower, an international tennis player; Mr. Tom Harrisson, a member of the Oxford Expedition to the New Hebri des in 1933; and Mr. Humphrey Spender, a surveyor and photographer. The oldest member of the party will be Mr. Dower, who is 26 years of age.
Mr. Marshall has already completed a preliminary reconnaissance of portion of the country through which the expedition will travel. He visited the area behind the Torricelli Mountains in North East New Guinea and then crossed over into the Dutch territory, returning to Hum boldt Bay, the Dutch settlement near the border.
The English committee, which is as sisting in the work of making prepara tions for the expedition, consists of Pro fessor A. C. Haddon, the eminent ethno logist; Mr. Julian Huxley, secretary of the Zoological Society; Admiral Good enough, a former president of the Royal Geographical Society; and Mr. H. G.
Wells, the prominent writer.