Background
THOMSON, James Park was born on June 20, 1854 in Shetland.
THOMSON, James Park was born on June 20, 1854 in Shetland.
One daughter Government Surveyor, Fiji, 1880-1884. Observed Transit of Venus, 1882. Founded Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Queensland, 18S5.
President of Society, 1894-1897.
Awarded Thomson Foundation Gold Meda "(established by the Society in his honour) for Eminent Services to Geographical Science, 1901. Secretary and Treasurer of Society and Editor of Queensland Geographical Journal.
Successfully observed Transit of Mercury at Brisbane, 1894. Honourable Vice-President Sixth International Geographical Congress, London, 1895.
Secretary Section A. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1895.
Got Peek award of the Royal Geographical Society, London, for his great services to Geography, 1902. Examined and reported on New South Wales Government Water Conservation and Irrigation Schemes, 1906. Undertook a successful journey to the Gulf of Carpentaria to identify and astronomically determine the position of the ill-fated Victorian Explorers’, Burke and Wills, most northerly camp on the Bynoe River, 1909.
Publimtions: British New Guinea.
Physical Geography of Australia. Round the World.
Over 100 papers on Geography and allied subjects in scientific periodicals. Canada); Honourable Corresponding Member New York Academy of Science, the Scientific Society, Alzate, Mexico, Royal Scottish Georgia
Society, the Commercial Georgia Society, Paris, and the Georgia Societies of Marseilles, Halle, and Manchester.