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PLANS for the exploration of the country in the neighbourhood of the Sepik River in the mandated territory of New Guinea, which have been in preparation for some time, are now approaching completion; and Mr. G. M. Dyott, the leader, will leave shortly with two other members of the expedition for Australia, where he will be joined at Sydney by Mr. H. L. Williams, the Australian anthropologist, who will complete the personnel of the party. For some time past, the exploration of the Sepik River country has been an object of ambition of anthropologists and geographers alike. The greater part of it is entirely unknown. Last year, Mr. E. W. P. Chinnery, in the course of an official tour of duty as Government anthropologist, penetrated to the eastern boundary of the unknown territory. He reached the summit of Mount Hagen, and in his reports records how from a, lofty plateau there he was able to look out over this country.
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Expedition to New Guinea. Nature 135, 464 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135464a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135464a0