Hyland Neil "Hank" Nelson (21 October 1937 – 17 February 2012) was one of Australia's foremost historians of the Pacific, particularly
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. His interest in the region began in 1966 when he took a teaching position at the
Administrative College of Papua New Guinea and later the University. He lived in Papua New Guinea for seven years and studied the period of Japanese occupation, which led to several publications.
He worked on several displays and archival material at the
Australian War Memorial about the war in Papua New Guinea, as well as films and radio documentaries. He was Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow at the
Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...
's
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs is a constituent of the College of Asia and the Pacific, but was formerly part of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, which was founded in 1946 as part of the Institute of Advanced ...
(RSPAS) until his death from cancer in February 2012.
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Silence broken on Australia's worst maritime disaster
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1937 births
2012 deaths
Australian National University faculty
Australian historians
Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Historians of Oceania
Historians of the Pacific
Members of the Order of Australia
University of Melbourne alumni
University of Papua New Guinea alumni
University of Papua New Guinea faculty
20th-century Australian historians