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Thomson, James Park (1854 - 1941) |
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| Geographer and Astronomer | ||
| Born: 20 June 1854 Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Died: 10 May 1941 Kilcoy, Queensland, Australia. | ||
| James Park Thomson was the founder, in 1885, of Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Queensland Branch, was president 1894-97 and edited its "Journal". He had a private observatory and was responsible for the adoption of the zonal system for reckoning time. |
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