Record of significant soil and land resources research in the southwest Pacific

The NZ Soil Bureau had a long involvement with the South West Pacific starting with an investigation of soils on Western Samoa (Hamilton & Grange 1938). Reconnaissance and soil surveys were made on Western Samoa (Wright 1963), the Lower Cook Group (Grange & Fox 1953), Niue (Wright & Van Westendorp 1965), Fiji (Twyford & Wright 1965) and Tongatapu (Gibbs 1976) during the 1950s and 1960s.