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Wace, Nigel Morritt
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- Dr Nigel Wace
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Dates of existence
1929 - 2005
History
Dr Wace was the leading authority on the plant life of the Tristan da Cunha-Gough Islands which he visited to undertake fieldwork in 1955-56, 1968, 1976, 1984 and 1994. He was awarded a PhD by Queen's University, Belfast and joined the Department of Geography at the University of Adelaide in 1961. He was a Senior Fellow in the Department of Biogeography and Geomorphology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University from 1971 to 1989, and was head of the department from 1981 to 1983.
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academic; biogeographer; botanist
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Prepared by Maggie Shapley on 27 June 2011
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ANU annual reports and calendars, 1971-1989
Obituary, Canberra Times, 21 April 2005, p. 20
Obituary, Polar Record 41 (218), pp. 265-6