Peoples & MigrationThe 1930s

Peoples & Migration in the 1930s

One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1930s, tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
1
Nations
1
Earliest
1933
Latest
1933

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Oceania

    Papua New Guinea

    First contact in the highlands

    Australian prospectors and patrol officers walked into the central highlands and found densely populated farming valleys — perhaps a million people — entirely unknown to the outside world until then.

    Era: Australian rule and the highland 'first contact'

    Sources: Papua New Guinea — History · Encyclopædia Britannica, Papua New Guinea · Encyclopædia Britannica