Been there, done that?

• Main Author: Neumann, Klaus
• Other Authors: Swinburne University of Technology
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Federation Press 2007
• Subjects: O'Connor; Roland; Banks Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/18961; http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781862876569

On 16 February 1969 eight men landed on Moa (Banks) Island in the Torres Strait. They were West Papuans who had travelled by raft from a village near Merauke in what was then known as West Irian, the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea. Merauke is less than 300 kilometres from Moa, but becau...