biography
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| lived:
| (1869–1951)
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| biography:
| Businessman, born in Roma, Queensland, NE Australia. In 1900 he discovered immense quantities of high-grade phosphate rock on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Banaba (Ocean I). His subsequent career was concerned with the mining of these resources. In the 1970s (Banaba) and 1980s (Nauru), indigenous demands for rehabilitation of the devasted islands led to major legal actions. He was knighted in 1938. |
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