Geoffrey Irwin (born 1941) is a New Zealand archaeologist and historian, specialising in the pre-history of the Pacific Islands. He is Professor of Archaeology at University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 1985-6 he surveyed the Louisiade Archipelago near Papua New Guinea.
(1985) The Emergence of Mailu as a Central Place in Papuan Prehistory
(1986) Land, Pa and Polity
(1992) The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521476518
(2006). 'Pacific Migrations' in M?ori Peoples of New Zealand: Ng? Iwi o Aotearoa. Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Auckland: David Bateman, 2006:10-18.