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IN view of the lack of knowledge concerning the inland seas between Asia and Australia, the Society for Scientific Researches in the Dutch Colonies and the Royal Dutch Geographical Society at Amsterdam planned an Oceanographical, geological, and biological expedition to those parts for the years 1929–30. The field of research, shown on the accompanying chart (Fig. 1), embraces the deep basins in the eastern part of the Dutch colonies with the adjacent regions of the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, which they connect. The area is nearly as large as that of the Mediterranean and the Black Seas combined. The conditions are very different from those in the open ocean and render this part of the Archipelago a region of great interest for Oceanographical, geological, and biological work.
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VAN RIEL, P. The Snellius Expedition. Nature 125, 761–762 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125761a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/125761a0