Person

Jensen, Harald Ingemann (1879 - 1966)

Born
1879
Aarhus, Jutland, Denmark
Died
13 July 1966
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Botanical collector, Geologist and Soil expert

Summary

Harald Jenson was Director of Mines and Chief Geologist of the Northern Territory from 1912 to 1916. He was then made Geologist for the Queensland government (1917-1922) and a member of the Aerial Geological and Geographical Survey of Northern Australia. Jensen also had a keen interest in the flora, of the sites of his geological research, particularly those of the eucalypt genus. He collected specimens in the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales.

Details

Chronology

1904 - 1908
Award - Macleay Fellow of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
1909
Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne
1909 - 1912
Career position - Soil chemist and soil surveyor, Department of Agriculture of New South Wales
1912 - 1916
Career position - Chief Government geologist of the Northern Territory
1917
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus blakelyi Maiden. Jensen collected the type
1917 - 1922
Career position - Government Geologist of Queensland (Acting)
1922
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus umbrawarrensis Maiden. Jensen collected the type
1922
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus jensenii Maiden, of which Jensen collected the type, was named in Jensen's honour
1922 - 1938
Career position - Freelance consulting geologist
1931
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus tenuipes Blakely & White. Jensen collected the type
1938 - 1940
Career position - Senior geologist in the Aerial Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Harald Ingemann Jensen - Records, 1908 - 1964, MS 009; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland

  • Harald Ingemann Jensen - Records, 1916 - 1955, MSS 41; Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland. Details

John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland

  • Harald Ingemann Jensen - Records, 1905 - 1965, OM69-29; John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland. Details

National Archives of Australia, National Office

  • Harald Ingemann Jensen - Records, 1915 - 1919, CRS A2, A3 and others; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Book Sections

  • McFarlane, B. J., 'Jensen, Harald Ingemann (1879-1966), geologist and socialist pamphleteer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 480-481. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090474b.htm. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

McCarthy, G.J.

EOAS ID: biogs/P000521b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000521b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260