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Harald Jensen (geologist)

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30: 253:, who had him demoted in 1915, although he remained chief geologist. Jensen wrote to the minister for external affairs and territories and precipitated a royal commission into Gilruth's administration, which ultimately found against Jensen (a public service inquiry later exonerated him of making disloyal comments) and led to his forced resignation in September 1915. He returned to Queensland in 1917 and became a government geologist. 264:. Divorced in 1937, in 1938 he was appointed leader of the Queensland section of the Aerial Geological and Geophysical Survey of North Australia, which continued until 1940. He later became interested in 141:(12 June 1879 – 13 July 1966) was an Australian geologist, academic, public servant and political candidate. He was born in Denmark and came to Australia as a young child. 528: 513: 324:
after being badly burnt in a grass fire. He was survived by five children. Two boxes of his papers are held in the Fryer Library at The University of Queensland.
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and a university medal, and was employed by the New South Wales Department of Agriculture as a soil scientist, publishing
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tickets in 1922 and 1925, but was expelled from the party in August 1926 after attacking a perceived move away from
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Jensen married Jane England in Sydney in 1906. They were divorced in 1937. Jensen died in 1966 in
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Nielsen), the latter of whom was purported to be a descendant of the great Danish poet
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In 1923 Jensen was employed as a consultant geologist, searching for oil in the
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in 1905, allowing him to travel extensively in the Pacific, including to
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Harald Ingemann Jensen Collection of Queensland Maps and Plans 1886-1977
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New South Wales, Australia, Public Service Lists, 1858-1960
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in 1904. He was employed as an assistant demonstrator to
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The Rising Tide: An Exposition of Australian Socialism
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in August 1912, he found himself in opposition to the
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before returning to his studies in 1902, receiving a
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Aarhus
Brisbane
Queensland
University of Sydney
Aarhus
Jutland
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Queensland
Brisbane Boys' Grammar School
Clement Wragge
Mount Kosciuszko
University of Sydney
Sydney
North Queensland
Bachelor of Science
geology
Edgeworth David
Linnean Society of New South Wales
Fiji
Samoa
Tonga
New Zealand
Doctorate of Science
Northern Territory
Administrator
John Gilruth
Roma basin
New Guinea
meteorology

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