New Guinea Exploration Expedition

New Guinea Exploration Expedition
New Guinea Exploration Expedition
	SS Bonito, Fly River, 1885
Location	New Guinea ;
Country of origin	Colony of New South Wales ;
Start	Sydney ; 10 June 1885
End	Sydney ; 3 December 1885
Leader	Henry Charles Everill ;
Organiser	Royal Geographical Society of Australasia ;
Funder	Government of New South Wales; Queensland Government; Victoria State Government ;
Participants	Wilhelm Haacke; Sidney Adolphus Bernays; Henry Charles Everill; William Baeuerlen; Walter Wilson Froggatt ;

The New Guinea Exploration Expedition of 1885 was a scientific, collecting and anthropological expedition sent by the Geographical Society of Australasia to the Fly River region of the New Guinea Protectorate (present-day Papua New Guinea). Also known as the Bonito Expedition, it lasted for six months from 10 June to 3 December 1885, of which five months were spent in New Guinea. They named and explored the Strickland River, and made vast biological discoveries, including numerous species.