The Great Barrier Reef : history, science, heritage / James Bowen and Margarita Bowen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, James.

Contributor:

Bowen, Margarita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Australia--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).

Natural history.

Coral reef conservation.

Australia.

Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)--History.

Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).

Coral reef conservation--Australia--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).

Local Subjects:

Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)--History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 454 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Part 1 Navigators and Naturalists in the Age of Sail

1 Quest for the Great South Land 11

Navigators in the New World 12

Portugal and Spain: first navigators of Terra Australis? 13

New explorers: Dutch, English, French 20

South Pacific navigation and the Transit of Venus, 1769 23

2 Voyage of the Endeavour: Cook and the 'Labyrinth' 27

The expedition to Tahiti 27

Encounter with the Reef: through the 'Labyrinth', 1770 29

An error of judgment? Endeavour holed on a reef 31

The Endeavour voyage published: the Reef mystique develops 35

A bizarre controversy: did Cook discover the Reef? 37

3 Endeavour Naturalists: 'A Separate Creation' 41

Eighteenth century natural science: a ferment of ideas 42

Endeavour voyage: first scientific study of the Reef 44

Banks' Florilegium: the great compendium 51

Fate of the Endeavour zoological specimens 54

4 Matthew Flinders: Voyage of the Investigator 56

British settlement of New South Wales 57

Bligh and Flinders: early Reef surveys 58

Flinders' surveys 1795-1799 59

The urgent issue: survey of the colony 61

New Holland: missing links in nature's chain? 65

Robert Brown: plant taxonomy in a new world 68

Science assessed: Brown and Bauer in England 1805-1814 71

A Voyage to Terra Australis: the journal published, 1814 74

5 The Reef Explored: Early Surveys, 1821-1844 77

Expansion of the colony: first decades 77

Australian coastline charts completed: Jeffreys and King 1815-1822 79

Geological observations: rise of controversy 83

Accurate reef charts: Beagle survey 1837-1844 84

Jukes and MacGillivray: naturalists on the Fly 1843-1845 88

6 Early Reef Charts Completed: 1846-1862 94

Reef surveys of the Rattlesnake: 1847-1850 94

Rattlesnake naturalists: MacGillivary and Huxley 98

Australia in a new era: changing international relations 101

Coral Sea surveys of the Herald: 1853-1860 102

7 The Reef as a Maritime Highway: Colony of Queensland, 1859-1900 107

Queensland exploration and expansion: 1859-1870 110

Coastal settlement of the Reef: towns, ports, railways 112

Regulating the Reef: coastal shipping 118

8 From Natural History to Science, 1850-1900: Voyages of the Challenger and the Chevert 124

Cabinet collectors and museums: Darwinism resisted 124

Oceanography and politics: Challenger and Chevert voyages, 1872-1876 129

Queensland Museum: marine science lags, 1859-1880 135

Scientific change 1888-1900: Darwinism established 137

9 Exploitation and Resource Raiding: 1860-1890 141

Pearls and pearlshell: resource depletion 144

A climate 'unfit for Europeans': slave trading 147

Advent of the Japanese 152

10 For Maximum Yield: Reef Biology 155

Reef science: achievements of Saville-Kent 156

Collapse of the pearling industry: 1906-1916 161

Charles Hedley's 'Marine Biological Economics' 165

Part 2 A New Era in Reef Awareness: From Early Scientific Investigation to Conservation and Heritage

11 Origin and Structure of Coral Reefs: From Forster to Darwin 173

Mystery of coral: the ancient quest 173

Another mystery: formation of coral reefs 176

Lyell's solution of 1832 179

Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle: 1831-1836 182

Formation of barrier reefs and atolls: 'so deductive a theory' 185

Darwin's subsidence theory: 1839-1842 187

The problem solved? 191

12 Darwin's Legacy: Coral Reef Controversy 1863-1923 193

Darwin's opponents: Semper and Murray, 1863-1880 193

Alexander Agassiz: pursuing a solution, 1881-1910 196

Funafuti subsidence theory tests, 1896-1898 200

Voyages of Agassiz: Great Barrier Reef to Fiji, 1896 203

Geology and biology: coral research expanded, 1902-1920 207

Mayor's ecological surveys: Torres Strait and Samoa, 1913-1920 208

13 Exploitation Challenged: Rise of Ecology 214

Nature and the Inner Sea 215

'Beachcomber' Banfield: a different drum 218

Rise of ecology: the subversive science 224

Respecting nature: conservation and sanctuary 225

14 Reef Research and Controversy: 1920-1930 231

The Pan-Pacific Union 1920 231

A research body founded: the Great Barrier Reef Committee 1922 233

Second Pan-Pacific Congress, Melbourne 1923 240

Boring Michaelmas Reef: GBRC research and controversy, 1925-1927 242

15 The Low Isles Expedition, 1928-1929: Planning and Preparation 249

Issue of Reef biological studies, 1923-1927 249

First major biological study planned: Potts Expedition of 1927 252

Third Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Tokyo 1926 254

Expedition reorganised: Yonge as leader 257

Expedition begins: London to Cairns 260

16 Biological Research of the Low Isles Expedition 264

Research organisation and procedure 264

Experiments with corals by Yonge and Nicholls 270

Reef geology: Geographical Society survey attempt 273

Low Isles Expedition: results and significance 277

17 From Depression to War: Tourism, Conservation and Science, 1929-1939 283

Naturalists, turtles and early tourism 283

Growth of the conservation movement 289

Geology revived: the Heron Island bore, 1937 295

18 The Pacific War and Its Aftermath 300

Japanese invasion fears: naval survey of the Reef 301

Aerial photography: an innovation in Reef survey 303

War comes to the Reef 305

Coral reef problem solved: Bikini and Enewetak 308

Quest for a marine research station: the background 310

Reef research stations: 1948-1973 312

Sydney's reef stations: One Tree and Lizard Islands, 1965-1973 314

19 A New Problem: The Conservation Controversy, 1958-1972 317

Conservative ascendancy: unrestrained exploitation, 1953-1968 317

Reef resources: devising a legal regime 320

Environmental anxiety for the Reef 322

Commonwealth concern for reef conservation 328

20 Crisis Resolution: Formation of an Environmental Management Authority 337

From resolution to implementation: first drafts of an Act 337

The Whitlam government: a radical development 343

Planning an authority 346

Report of the Royal Commission 1971-1974 348

A formula for Reef management: the Emerald Agreement, 1979 355

21 A New Era: Research Based Management 357

Reef research: James Cook University and the Australian Institute of Marine Science 357

Towards a national marine science and technology policy 360

Planning the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park 363

Management through research: the essential function 369

A conservation climax: World Heritage listing of the Reef 370

Reef management and public relations 372

Crown of Thorns: conflict and controversy 374

22 The Reef Under Pressure: Research and Management 379

Environment and economic growth in the greenhouse decade 379

Oceans of Wealth? marine science under review 381

Coral reef research: into the sustainability era 383

Coral reef science at the turn of the century 386

Warning signals: a 'particularly sensitive area' 388

The Reef as a maritime superhighway 391

World Heritage protection: a twenty-five year strategy 393

Cultural heritage: recognition of indigenous rights 395

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority management reform 398

A wave of concern: maintaining the heritage value of the Reef? 402

23 The Reef as Heritage: A Challenge for the Future 404

Management reform and the 'dugong wars' 405

The Oyster Point controversy 408

Issues for resolution: cooperative management of the Reef 412

Heritage management in a warming world 418

Conserving biodiversity: the innovative Representative Areas Program 421

Heritage: a sustainable ideal? 425.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-445) and index.

ISBN:

0521824303

OCLC:

50164857

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