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Kapingamarangi Studies
SPONSORED by the Pacific Science Board, and associated with the South Pacific Com mission’s “Project-E”— Economic Development of Coral Atolls—a team of scientists from the US was to visit Kapingamarangi atoll in j U ne lip^ a of n M^ron a
whi?hthe jkvlnese llunched
their "Sl ah- aUacks on New Guinea, is the Australian Mandated Territory’s nearest neighbour to the north.
The late Dr. Peter Buck, Director of Bishop Museum, Honolulu, accom-
P. ard .ed Dr Kenneth P. Emory, studied its material culture and ethnology in 1947. Another visit was made by scientists in 1950 to public health problems, T “ e . present team includes a geologist, a marine zoologist, land exologist, ichthyologist, alologist and geographer Funds are being pro- Vlded by the US Office of Naval Research si A milar studies have been made 2? rno - m the Southern Marshalls, & 1950 d ße f fulta
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in the Atoll Research Bulletin, 27 issues having appeared covering the earlier work.