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rapid access by plane and reliable air dispatch of labile specimens is 
nonexistent. In such localities the ship could permit research on human biology 
and medical and other biological studies in areas where this kind of work had 
not been previously possible and where it could not be done in the foreseeable 
future without the facilities of such a ship. Specific examples of such areas 
where human ecology and human biology, and medical and genetic studies of the 
isolated population has not yet been possible are: 
The remote, little visited islands of Eastern Indonesia, 
excluding West New Guinea (West Irian); such as the Kai, Aru and 
Tanimbar Islands; Seram; Miso51; Babar; Obi; Pisa, and islands of the 
Radja Ampat group. 
The isolated southern islands of the British Solomon Islands 
Protectorate (Tikopia, Rennell and Bellona) ; and the northern 
islands of New Hebrides (Torres and Banks Islands groups). 
The more remote islands of the Indian Ocean, 
D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D. 
