An ocean apart: meteorology and the elusive observatories of British Malaya

• Main Author: WILLIAMSON, Fiona
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: History; Science; Meteorology; Colonial Malaya; Asian Studies; Environmental Sciences; Place and Environment
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/145
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Throughout the late nineteenth century, the British established observatories, meteorological posts, and stations across their burgeoning empire. These institutions and their networks were part of a global endeavor to map and understand the weather by collating vast quantities of data, and, it has b...