Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America

The Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America took place in 1957-8, when teams from Oxford and Cambridge Universities drove overland across South America in three Land Rovers.[1]

The expedition was the third in a series of overland expeditions undertaken by a joint team from both universities. The first, in 1954, was the Oxford and Cambridge Trans-Africa Expedition, from London to Cape Town, and the second and perhaps most famous was the 1955-6 Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, from London to Singapore.

While on the expedition team member Adrian Cowell met the Villas-Bôas brothers and left the Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to join them on the Centro Geographico Expedition to find the geographical centre of Brazil.[2]

Ethnographic items collected during the Expedition were donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford by Peter Rivière on behalf of the Expedition.[3]

Team members (partial list)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bishop, Michael (22 September 2011). "Expeditions and Land Rover". They Found Our Engineer. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  2. "Biography: John Adrian Cowell 1934 - 2011". Adrian Cowell Films. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  3. "South American Tropical Forest Material". Pitt Rivers Museum. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  4. "Professor Peter Rivière". Oxford University School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnology. Retrieved 21 January 2014.

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