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Don King Notebook 3 : Diary 1951

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Three geologists left Australia in 1951 to conduct geological surveys in Pakistan, under the auspices of the Colombo Plan which provides technical assistance for member countries in South and South East Asia. The main objects were to conduct an economic and general geological survey of a selected part of the Gilgit Agency, to examine the alluvial-gold prospects of the Chitral River, and, if time permitted, to discuss the Sind and East Bengal lignites with the Director of the Pakistan Geological Survey. The field notebooks contain the geological observations recorded by the geologists during their trip. Files include a scanned copy of the original handwritten field notebook, transcription of the notebook’s contents, and a csv file of the transcription with Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) tags. The original field notebooks are held at the N.H. (Doc) Fisher Geoscience Library at Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

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Field Value
Title Don King Notebook 3 : Diary 1951
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/df1a1904-8fe8-4207-ae36-2907f714b51f
Contact Point
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Don King Notebook 3 : Diary 1951". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/don-king-notebook-3-diary-1951