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Extractions: History Just how the Polynesian peoples came to populate their islands of the Pacific is a subject of some debate. What is clear, however, is that they were great sailors and navigators who traversed vast distances of open ocean to settle as far and wide as present-day French Polynesia, Hawaii, New Zealand, parts of the New Guinea island, Tonga and the Cook Islands. It's thought that they left South-East Asia around 3000 or 4000 years ago and began to arrive in present-day French Polynesia around 300 AD. Islands were originally ruled by chieftains who commanded huge fleets of outrigger canoes; religious practices at this time included human sacrifices. Some of the first European visitors, which included Samuel Wallis (1767), Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1768) and James Cook (1769), returned with stories of a paradise on earth inhabited by 'noble savages' and Venus-like women whose sexual favours were freely offered to the visitors. Europe was abuzz with stories of a tropical haven of free love when Bougainville returned to Paris and this myth attracted the likes of Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin. The most famous event in the region's recent history was the mutiny on the At the time of the mutiny, the Polynesian islands were ruled locally by important families - there was no all-prevailing ruler. The Polynesians had long realised the power of European weaponry and had courted earlier visitors to make allegiances in regional power struggles. While Cook, Bougainville and others had resisted this, the
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Extractions: Navigation Advanced Search Law Pro Links LLRX Buzz LLRX Top 10 Meta Links Newstand Resource Centers - Document Delivery - Comparative and Foreign Law - International Law - Intranets/Knowledge Management - Marketing - Search Engines Update to Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources By Ruth Bird Ruth Bird is Firm Legal Information Manager at the law firm Phillips Fox . Prior to joining this firm, she was Editor's note: This article is an update to the Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources , (published October 16, 2000). There are additions, changes for some Web site addresses, as well as some deletions. These additions and changes are indicated by (yellow background color) for easy identification. Published April 15, 2002 Table of Contents I. Introduction to the Guide This Resource guide deals with internet sites providing Caselaw, Legislation and Government home pages for the Pacific Island region. There are also links to several relevant journals, and to academic sites providing dedicated Pacific Law web pages, or Centres dealing with Pacific Law. There are several issues to be aware of when using the internet to locate Pacific law sites.
Extractions: Papua New Guinea is the geographical exception. As one half of the second largest island in the world and of the PACP countries, it shares a land border with Indonesia and is just across the Torres Strait from Australia. At the same time, it suffers from internal remoteness due to its extreme topography. A further distinction is the considerably varied pattern of colonial and selfgovernment that preceded independence. The great majority of the African and Caribbean ACP countries were formerly French or British colonies that gained independence in the 1950s or 1960s. The PACP countries (with the exception of Samoa, which gained independence in 1962) attained full independence in the 1970s and 1980s. Nor were the former colonial powers exclusively or primarily European nations.
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Extractions: Sweet Maui Moon A Brief History of Slack Key Guitar Hawaiian slack key guitar (ki ho'alu) is truly one of the great acoustic guitar traditions in the world. Ki ho'alu, which literally means "loosen the key," is the Hawaiian language name for the solo fingerpicked style unique to Hawai'i. In this tradition, the strings (or "keys") are "slacked" to produce many different tunings, which usually contain a major chord, or a chord with a major 7th note, or sometimes one with a 6th note in it. Each tuning produces a lingering sound behind the melody and has a characteristic resonance and fingering. Many Hawaiian songs and slack key guitar pieces reflect themes like stories of the past and present and people's lives. But it is the tropical surroundings of Hawai'i, with its oceans, volcanoes and mountains, waterfalls, forests, plants and animals, that provide the deepest source of inspiration for Hawaiian music.
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Project regional history Project of the Council of Presidents of Pacific history The 6th Festival of Pacific Arts Organizing Committee(cook Island), \11105704 http://www.spf.org/spinf/project.html
Extractions: Summary of Project(1990-1998) PROJECT TYPE IMPLEMENTING ORGANIZATION FUNDING Exchange Media Personnel among the Pacific Island Region and Japan The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPINF) Coconuts College The Sasakawa Peace Foundation(SPINF) Forming a Distance Education Alliance for Progress in the Western Pacific University of Guam Distance Education in the South-West Pacific Cultural Heritage Training Australian National University (Australia) Transcending Borders with Education On-Line Micronesian Seminar (Federated States of Micronesia) Pacific Island Digital Opportunities Research Project The Sasakawa Peace Foundation(SPINF) PROJECT TYPE IMPLEMENTING ORGANIZATION FUNDING Exchange Media Personnel among the Pacific Island Region and Japan
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Home Page the RMP helps 14 PICTs (cook islands, FSM, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Is, UPDATE The Pacific islands regional Ocean Forum (PIROF) was held at the http://www.spc.org.nc/Maritime/
Extractions: Home History Publications Contacts ... Meeting s Training News Related Sites The sea is the most significant geographical feature of the Pacific region. It is by sea that most international trade and commerce are conducted and that goods reach regional and national markets. Ships and seafaring are fundamental Pacific traditions. Most Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) rely on the sea for sustenance (fisheries), coastal transportation and employment in shipping or on fishing vessels. Mission and Goal of the Regional Maritime Programme (RMP) The mission of the RMP is: Safe and secure shipping, cleaner seas, improved social and economic well-being of seafaring communities within the Pacific region. Its goal is to strengthen the capacity of Pacific Islanders to manage, administer, regulate, control and gain employment in the maritime transport sector in a socially responsible manner. The Programme is part of the Marine Resources Division. Based in Suva, Fiji Islands, it employs the following officers: Regional Maritime Legal Adviser,
Extractions: This website is accessible to all versions of every browser. However, you are seeing this message because your browser does not support basic Web standards, and does not properly display the site's design details. Please consider upgrading to a more modern browser. ( Learn More Vanuatu News You are here: home news regional news Posted Saturday, April 10, 2004 The Cook Island Football Association (CIFA) is in the midst of final preparations towards the realization of a significant milestone in the history of football in the idyllic pacific island nation. Since selection by FIFA to benefit from the Goal programme, the association identified an ambitious project for the construction of the CIFA national headquarters and academy â truly a âhouse of footballâ that would contribute to the significantly to the development of football in the country. At the time of the âground-breakingâ ceremony in April 2003, the CIFA President, Mr. Lee Harmon commented with some emotion that âthe Goal project was a dream for the Cook Islands Football Association and thanked FIFA for such a wonderful development programmeâ. Construction of the CIFA national headquarters and academy commenced in June 2003 at the picturesque site at Matavera on the main island of Rarotonga. Two natural turf playing fields were also formed as part of the overall project with one playing pitch constructed to a âstate of the artâ international standard with underground irrigation, sand carpeted and fully drained.
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Extractions: History It is thought that 40,000 years ago the Pacific Region was totally uninhabited. Around that time people started to move down from Asia and settled Australia and Melanesia. The Australian Aboriginals and the tribes of Papua New Guinea are the descendants of the first wave of Pacific settlers. After thousands of years of migration throughout the South Pacific, the Cooks Islands were first inhabited around 1500 years ago. Actually, the oldest archaeological item found in the islands is a dog skull from Pukapuka, dated at 2300 years old. The Spanish explorer Alvaro de Mendana was the first European to sight one of the islands in the group - Pukapuka - in 1595. There is no record of further European contact for over 150 years, until Captain James Cook explored much of the group during his expeditions of 1773 and 1777. Cook set foot on just one island - tiny, uninhabited Palmerston - while overlooking Rarotonga, the largest. The first Europeans to sight Rarotonga were the mutineers on the HMS Bounty , who committed their crime while sailing among the Cooks.
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Extractions: « Forgotten refugees Main One last chance » The 35th Pacific Islands Forum meeting opens today in Apia, Samoa, but the Smaller Island States group has already convened a half-day summit focusing on the issues of Nauru, climate change and sustainable development. The SIS group, which formed 13 years ago to advocate for the economic and environmental issues unique to the smallest Pacific nations, consists of Nauru, Tuvalu, Niue, the Cook Islands, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands. None of its members has more than 100,000 people, and the smallest - the New Zealand-affiliated island of Niue - has fewer than 2100. The Smaller Island States group is affiliated with both the Pacific Islands Forum and with the UN-sponsored Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), a worldwide association of 43 "small island and low-lying coastal countries." AOSIS is somewhat misnamed; not all its members are islands, many aren't particularly small and some aren't even states. Among others, the Cook Islands and Niue are full members, and the Netherlands Antilles, Guam, American Samoa and the United States Virgin Islands have observer status. This highlights an issue common to many regional associations but particularly acute in the Pacific and the Caribbean: to what extent should self-governing but non-independent entities participate in regional planning and development? The Pacific and the Caribbean are the two areas of the world where colonialism is still a major force. The United States, France, Britain and New Zealand all have Pacific possessions with varying levels of self-government, and the Caribbean contains British, French, Dutch and American territories. Most of these have no immediate prospect of independence, nor do most of them
Pacific Islands Internet Resources - General Info. Asia Now Online Pacific islands Project (grades 912 curriculum resources, HPTV, regional Organizations. Who Belongs to What Membership in Selected http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ogden/piir/gen.html
Extractions: Pacific Islands Resources Home Page + Pacific Islands Introduction - Anglonesia - Melanesia - Micronesia - Polynesia * General Information Page - Pacific Media Resources - Document Collections - Academic Institutions - Regional Organizations + Geophysical Page - Environmental Features Ogden's Home Page! (In need of some Help Oceans Enterprises (scuba diving books, maps, etc., Aust.) Pan Pacifica Publications Pacific Prints (Tapa Prints for sale... ok, so it ain't a book site) University of Hawaii Press University of Papua New Guinea Press Cafe Pacific (D. Robie, news/articles from Asia-Pacific Network, Uni. of Tech., Sydney, Aust.)
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Extractions: Oral History Collection The University runs the oral history program in conjunction with the Department of History and Politics. Mrs Barbara Erskine is the oral historian. This is a basic list of the names of who have been interviewed. It will be updated eventually with proper titles and a description. Peter Arlett Reg Chapple Keith Chester Lesley Clarke MLA Bob Clayton Moya Cormack Ralph Cormack Phil Courtenay Chris Crossland Ruth Crowe JP Cullen Brian Dalton Frank Daveson Alison Davis Ian Dickson Suzie Dickson Dr Bob Douglas Bill Dowd Jan Eggleton O'Connor Stephen Ellis Brian Embury Archbishop Faulkner Sir George Fisher Robin Gilliver Rosemary Gillman
New Zealand - Ancient And Modern History Links to New Zealand history from the arrival of the Maori, Captain cook, theTreaty of From the island of Madagascar off the east coast of Africa, http://www.enzed.com/hist.html
Extractions: Links to New Zealand history from the arrival of the Maori, Captain Cook, the Treaty of Waitangi, Gallipoli, the Rainbow Warrior, recent economic reforms. Prehistory and Biogeography. ( # June 2003 ) Changes in Vegetation over the past 20,000 years China likely the original homeland of Polynesian people By analysing human deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), Victoria University scientist Geoffrey Chambers claims that it is possible to show that Polynesians, including New Zealand's Maori, have migrated from Asia, through the Philippines, Indonesia, West Polynesia, East Polynesia and finally to New Zealand. Austronesian Language Comparison From the island of Madagascar off the east coast of Africa, all the way to tiny isolated Easter Island (Rapa Nui), and extending into Taiwan, Vietnam, Northern Australia, New Zealand and most of the Melanesian and Polynesian Islands, the languages in this single family have many cognates (words in common). The Settlement of Polynesia The Vaka Taumako Project
Internet Public Library: South Pacific History Short history of Hawai`i; originally appeared in the Honolulu StarBulletin in history and how Hawaiians, Tahitians, New Zealand and cook Island Maori, http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum30.85.00/
Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council Represents the citizens of cook Inlet in promoting environmentally safe marinetransportation and oil facility regional Citizens Advisory Council http://www.circac.org/
Extractions: After months of collaboration and review, the Alaska Oil Spill Permits Tool is complete and available on the Internet. CIRCAC and other members of the Alaska Oil Spill Permit Workgroup are pleased to share what we believe is one of the most useful response tools to be created in Alaska's oil industry history. The tool is designed to increase the efficiency of filing the correct permits during a response and thereby decrease the time necessary to deploy human and equipment resources. Alaska's current statewide oil spill response system involves a complex assortment of permits, forms, and applications that must be prepared and filed during various phases of the response. The new tool provides streamlined access to over 40 important documents. The permit tool allows the user to locate the appropriate form by sorting the permits either by the agency that requires the form or by the type of oil spill response activity that would necessitate the permit.
