1. Henry Fairfield Osborn, The Pacific World: Its Vast Distances, Its Lands and the Life upon Them, and Its Peoples (New York: W.W. Norton, 1944), Foreword.
2. See Carol Grant Gould, The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004).
3. X. Theodore Barber, “The Roots of Travel Cinema: John L. Stoddard, E. Burton Holmes, and the Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Travel Lecture”, Film History 5, (1993): 68.
4. Alison Griffiths, “‘To the World We Show’: Early Travelogues as Filmed Ethnography”, Film History 11, (1999): 282. By examining the South Seas in natural and ethnographic terms, and explaining them to their audiences using accessible scientific language, National Geographic and Nature had played important roles in stimulating popular interest in the South Seas.
5. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film, 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1980), 57.