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John Robert Victor Prescott

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Name
  
John Victor


Role
  
Author

Books
  
The Maritime Political B, Political Frontiers and Boun, geography of state policies, Secret Hydrographic Surveys i, International Frontiers and Boun

John Robert Victor Prescott FASSA is an Australian academic, author, geographer and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne. A political geographer, most of Prescott's work has focused on international boundary issues, particularly maritime boundaries.

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Early life

Prescott earned his BSc and MA degrees at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. The University of London awarded his doctorate degree.

Career

Prescott was a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Melbourne until his retirement in 1996.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about John Prescott, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10 works in 10 publications in 3 languages and 30 library holdings.

  • The Geography of Frontiers and Boundaries (1967)
  • Our Fragmented World: an Introduction to Political Geography (1975), with William G East
  • Einführung in die politische Geographie (1975)
  • The Maritime Political Boundaries of the World (1985)
  • Political Frontiers and Boundaries (1987)
  • Aboriginal Frontiers and Boundaries in Australia (1992)
  • Limits of National Claims in the South China Sea (1999)
  • The Maritime Political Boundaries of the World (2nd Ed., 2005)
  • International Frontiers and Boundaries (2008)

    • Honors

  • Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow, 1979.

    • References

    John Robert Victor Prescott Wikipedia
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