Rohan Howitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5721788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rohan Howitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rohan |
| FAMILY NAME | Howitt |
| SIGNATURE | HOWITT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2384-7688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Oil from penguins
From 1889 to 1919, Macquarie Island was the centre of one of the world's most unusual extractive industries. On this small island, roughly midway between Australia and Antarctica, penguins were killed and boiled down to produce oil. Yet despite a single company having a virtual monopoly and investing heavily in machinery that allowed them to process up to 3500 penguins a day during the summer oiling season, penguin oil never became the lucrative …
Histories and legacies of extraction and toxicity
Australasian Histories of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean World
Australia and New Zealand have deep historical connections—geological, environmental, cultural, political, and economic—with Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Yet while Australasia and the Southern Ocean are historically entangled, their historiographies are largely estranged. This article provides a survey of Australian and New Zealand histories of Antarctica, the subantarctic, and the Southern Ocean. I argue that historians in and of Australas…
The company-microstate
The Auckland Islands, a subantarctic archipelago 465 kilometres south of New Zealand, were the setting for one of the stranger episodes in the global history of colonial expansion. From 1849–52, these remote, inhospitable islands were governed and settled by a chartered company. The project was driven by lofty ambitions to simultaneously create a flourishing settler colony and unlock vast new whaling grounds in the Southern Ocean; the reality was…
Māori Workers in Colonial New South Wales, c. 1803–40
On the afternoon of 30 March 1835, a funeral took place in the town of Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), that was unusual in many ways. As the funeral procession made its way to the Strangers’ Burial Ground ‘at a very quick pace’, an observer noted that the deceased was conveyed not in a coffin but in a wooden musket case carried by four men. A grave was dug to a depth of five feet, and as the makeshift coffin was lowered one of the dead man’s frien…
The Japanese Antarctic Expedition and the Idea of White Australia
When the Japanese Antarctic Expedition arrived unexpectedly in Sydney Harbour in May 1911, its members anticipated a hostile reception in a country renowned for its White Australia Policy. Contrary to this expectation, the Japanese explorers developed a positive relationship with the people and officials of Sydney. This article explains this relationship by placing it in the context of the flourishing expatriate Japanese community of early twenti…
The Japanese Antarctic Expedition and the Idea of White Australia
When the Japanese Antarctic Expedition arrived unexpectedly in Sydney Harbour in May 1911, its members anticipated a hostile reception in a country renowned for its White Australia Policy. Contrary to this expectation, the Japanese explorers developed a positive relationship with the people and officials of Sydney. This article explains this relationship by placing it in the context of the flourishing expatriate Japanese community of early twenti…
Māori Workers in Colonial New South Wales, c. 1803–40
On the afternoon of 30 March 1835, a funeral took place in the town of Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), that was unusual in many ways. As the funeral procession made its way to the Strangers’ Burial Ground ‘at a very quick pace’, an observer noted that the deceased was conveyed not in a coffin but in a wooden musket case carried by four men. A grave was dug to a depth of five feet, and as the makeshift coffin was lowered one of the dead man’s frien…
The company-microstate
The Auckland Islands, a subantarctic archipelago 465 kilometres south of New Zealand, were the setting for one of the stranger episodes in the global history of colonial expansion. From 1849–52, these remote, inhospitable islands were governed and settled by a chartered company. The project was driven by lofty ambitions to simultaneously create a flourishing settler colony and unlock vast new whaling grounds in the Southern Ocean; the reality was…
Oil from penguins
From 1889 to 1919, Macquarie Island was the centre of one of the world's most unusual extractive industries. On this small island, roughly midway between Australia and Antarctica, penguins were killed and boiled down to produce oil. Yet despite a single company having a virtual monopoly and investing heavily in machinery that allowed them to process up to 3500 penguins a day during the summer oiling season, penguin oil never became the lucrative …
Histories and legacies of extraction and toxicity
Australasian Histories of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean World
Australia and New Zealand have deep historical connections—geological, environmental, cultural, political, and economic—with Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Yet while Australasia and the Southern Ocean are historically entangled, their historiographies are largely estranged. This article provides a survey of Australian and New Zealand histories of Antarctica, the subantarctic, and the Southern Ocean. I argue that historians in and of Australas…
History (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Oceanography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Australian History and Society (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Chemistry (2 works) · Extraction (chemistry (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works)