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List of Expeditions
to Misool Island

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(Photo E.B.)

icoMain dates

1860: C. Allen, field assistant to A. R. Wallace, spent approximatively six months on Misool at Lelinta and on the north coast.

1860: C. B. H. Baron von Rosenberg collected birds at Lelinta between July 4-9 (where he met Allen), from August 20-25 at Waigama, and again at Lelinta on August 28-29.

c. 1862: A small number of birds were collected on Misool under the supervision of E. Benjamins, a health officer of the Dutch colonial East-Indies army.

1867: D. S. Hoedt collected on Misool between May 1 and August 18. Assisted by several hunters he secured the largest collection ever from the island: 938 bird skins besides a number of specimens in spirit.

1876: J. E. Teijsmann worked at Waigama and Kasim between August 19-30.

1883: five native hunters from the yacht 'Marchesa' visited Misool during the last months of that year.

1893: De Clercq & Schmeltz

1900: Ornithologist H. Kühn visited Misool in January-February.

1910: Ornithologist F. K. Baron van Dedem spent a week at Waigama in July.

1911: Ornithologist Dr. O. D. Tauern collected on Misool from August to October.

1927: A few specimens from Misool reached Europe through the dealers Schlüuter and Mass.

1937: (1954, 1960) Ornithologist Dr. S. D. Ripley collected on Misool and off-shore Schildpad Islands in October-November.

1948: Dr. M. A. Lieftinck made a small collection of birds during entomological investigations in September-October.

1953: (1993) Ethnologist Maurenbrecher. Misool district (Waigama, Tomoelol, Tikoes, Meoskapal, Lilinta, Lenmalaas, Jelloe, Gam, Fakal, Biga)

1954: (1937, 1960) Dr. S. D. Ripley collected on Misool and his assistant J. Khakiaj continued collecting in later years.

1960: (1937, 1954) Dr. S. D. Ripley collected on Misool again.

1983: (1993, 1995, 1997) Van der Leeden

1984: Silzer & Heikkinen:

1914: Van Peski

1991: Silzer & Clouse – Biga

1992 : Smits & Voorhoeve

1993: (1983, 1995, 1997) Van der Leeden

1993: (1953) Maurenbrecher Misool district.

1995 - 1997: (1983, 1993) Van der Leeden

2000 - 2003 : Bert Remijsen. Linguist. Research on Matbat dialects in south east Misool Fafanlap, Gamta, Bagey, Yellu  


Note: The above overview of historical ornithological collecting on Misool is based entirely on Mees (1965).
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Table of Content

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Expedition to inland Misool

  The incredible and unlucky story of Alfred Russell Wallace - 1862

List of exeditions to Misool
 
Image South East Misool: Gamta Village and countryside
  Geological evolution and consequences on bio diversity

Story of inhabitants and villages
 
 
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The Gam River: Going Upstream