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