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1981–83 CCNT wildlife surveys

CCNT = Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, which became the Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory

Gibson & Southgate
3.    Oct 1981    Waralya (Spider Lake); Spider and Boomerang Lakes (Southgate & Gibson)
5.    June 1982    Aerial survey of the Lander and Hanson River systems; Yinapaka (Lake Surprise)
6.    Aug 1982    Hanson River and Eastern Tanami Desert
8.    Sept 1982    Wilson Creek and Lake Buck
7.    Oct-Nov 1982    between Winnecke Creek and Newcastle Waters ("No Aboriginal guides")
Gibson & Cole
9.    May-June 1983    Eastern Portion of the Old Tanami Desert Wildlife Sanctuary ("No Aboriginal guides")
10.    June-July 1983    to Kulpulurnu
11.    Sept 1983    Brown's Range and Kulpulurnu
13.    Oct 1983    Green Swamp Well area (Nov report)
The above trips are numbered according to Appendix I "Aboriginal people involved with wildlife surveys in the Tanami Desert" (Gibson 1986:105-6); and see References below.
map of 1981–83 CCNT wildlife surveys
Fig. 9 Tanami Desert wildlife surveys 1981 – 1983 (Gibson 1986:40)

References

Gibson, D[avid] F. 1986. A biological survey of the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory.  Technical Report - Number 30. Alice Springs: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory. ISBN 07245 0836 8  ISSN 0729 9990 xiii+258pp.

Gibson, D.F. and R.I. Southgate. June 1982. Aerial survey of the Lander and Hanson River systems in the Tanami Desert and ground survey of the fauna of the Lander River - Lake Surprise system, Unpublished report, Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, Wildlife Research Section, Alice Springs.

Gibson, D.F. and R.I. Southgate. August 1982. Wildlife Survey of the Hanson River and Eastern Tanami Desert. Wildlife Research Section, Alice Springs. 83pp.

Gibson, D.F. and R.I. Southgate. September 1982. Fauna Survey of Wilson Creek and Lake Buck, Tanami Desert. Wildlife Research Section, Alice Springs. 68pp.

Gibson, D.F. and R.I. Southgate. October-November 1982. Fauna Survey between Winnecke Creek and Newcastle Waters, Tanami Desert. Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory. Wildlife Research Section, Alice Springs. 88pp.

Gibson, D.F. and J.R. Cole. May-June 1983. Fauna Survey of the Eastern Portion of the Old Tanami Desert Wildlife Sanctuary. Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory. Wildlife Research Section, Alice Springs. 74pp.

Gibson, D.F. and J.R. Cole. June-July 1983. Fauna Survey to Kulpulurnu, Tanami Desert. Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory. Wildlife Research Section, Alice Springs. 40pp.

Gibson, D.F. and J.R. Cole. August-September 1983. Fauna Survey of the Brown's Range area, North-West Tanami Desert. Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory. Wildlife Research Section, Alice Springs. 65pp.

Gibson, D.F. and J.R. Cole. November 1983. Fauna Survey of the Green Swamp Well area, Tanami Desert. Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory. Wildlife Research Section, Alice Springs. 27pp.

Gibson, David F. & M[ichael] Fleming. August-September 1981. Central Tanami Desert Fauna Survey. Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory. Wildlife Research Section, Alice Springs. WLFE9 A 69pp.

Southgate, R.I. and D.F. Gibson. October 1981. Tanami Desert Fauna Survey of Spider and Boomerang Lakes.  Wildlife Research Section, Alice Springs. 38pp.

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