81. IWon - Travel Guide - History & Culture history. Just how the Polynesian peoples came to populate their islands of thePacific is a While cook, Bougainville and others had resisted this, the http://www1.iwon.com/travel/travelguide/history/0,20310,pacific-405,00.html

iWon Travel Pacific French Polynesia And Tahiti Powered by HISTORY and CULTURE History Culture 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

82. Information Gateway Links List Display Page Banking regional Development Banks Asian Development Bank Business PromotionInvestment Promotion Agencies - cook islands Development Investment http://www.opic.gov/links/countryInfo.asp?country=Cook Islands®ion=asia

83. Backpackers International, Youth Hostels Rarotonga, Cook Islands Youth Hostels, our islands history, culture and how you can save money but enjoy it all. Backpackers International PO Box 878 Rarotonga cook islands cook islands http://www.realadventures.com/listings/1031847.htm

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84. LLRX -- Update To Law Of The Pacific Islands: A Guide To Web Based Resources Members are Australia, cook islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, It provides a history of the project, and a list of Pacific Island experts. http://www.llrx.com/features/pacific2.htm

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 1. Introduction 2. Countries: American Samoa Cook Islands ... 5. Related Sites, not Law Specific 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.

85. The European Commission's Delegation For The Pacific - EU & Pacific Regional Par Based on its own history, the EU has an advantage over other donors because The Pacific islandsEU consensus is that the regional strategy should take a http://www.delfji.cec.eu.int/en/eu_and_country/regional_partnership.htm

Europa The European Union in the World Delegations the European Commission's Delegation for the Pacific [EN] home what's new? site map links ... EU Guide The European Union and the Pacific Region Overview Cotonou Agreement A strong regional partnership Regional Partnership Download English brochure (13MB) Download French brochure (8MB) The Pacific region has a number of characteristics that distinguish it from its African and Caribbean partners and defines a special co-operation with the EU. The most obvious is the great physical distance between the 14 PACP themselves and with Europe. 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.

86. A Brief History Of Slack Key Guitar The most influential slack key guitarist in history was Gabby Pahinui For example, in the cook islands, especially on the island of Aitutaki, http://www.kbeamer.com/sk_history.html

NAVIGATION Home Online Store On Tour! Discography ... Helen Desha Beamer HUMOR Spam Haiku Slightly Bent Hawaiian Phrases KB Trivia Wendel Hehena MISCELLANEOUS Join our email list! to be notified of any breaking news, tours, new releases and appearances, and to enter our monthly drawing for a FREE Keola Beamer CD! Management Contacts Electronic Press Kit INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Online Lessons! (exclusively from our website) Art of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar (Instructional DVD) Learn To Play Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar (book/CD) (book/CD) RELEASES Ki Ho 'alu (Loosen the Key) DVD Mohala Hou Soliloquy Island Born ... 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.

87. Fishpond.co.nz Raratonga And The Cook Islands (Lonely Planet Travel, General, Raratonga and the cook islands (Lonely Planet regional GuidesS.), Errol Hunt, Nancy Keller. http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Travel/General/product_info.php?products_id=8716

88. 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

Type of Projects (Second Period Program Guidelines 1999-2008) Exchange projects that respect the values and cultural identity of each island society Micronesia-focused projects aimed at promoting regional harmony Projects that support education and training through the medium of distance education Projects to promote networking among NGOs and NPOs operating in the region and to form linkages among Pacific island nations and Asian countries Type of Projects (First Period Program Guidelines 1991-1998) A. Joint cooperative projects aimed at promoting mutual understanding between the Pacific lsland Nations and Japan B. Human resource development and educational projects conducted in cooperation with Japan or other countries C. Information and communication network projects D. others 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

89. Read Messages In view of your country s history on dengue fever, we are inviting most directroute between Rarotonga (cook islands), Suva (Fiji), Papeete http://lyris.spc.int/read/messages?id=5790

90. 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/

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,

91. Port Vila Presse Online Vanuatu News :: Cook Islands Football Association Set To The cook Island Football Association (CIFA) is in the midst of final preparations in the history of football in the idyllic pacific island nation. http://www.news.vu/en/news/RegionalNews/cook-islands-football-ass.shtml

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 Cook Islands Football Association set to inaugurate Goal Project 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 – truly a “house of football” that would contribute to the significantly to the development of football in the country. At the time of the ‘ground-breaking’ ceremony in April 2003, the CIFA President, Mr. Lee Harmon commented with some emotion that “the Goal project was a dream for the Cook Islands Football Association and thanked FIFA for such a wonderful development programme”. 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 ‘state of the art’ international standard with underground irrigation, sand carpeted and fully drained.

92. ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Pacific Regional Programmes Appeal No. 01.40/20 Related Appeals Pacific regional programmes 01.71/03 Outstanding needs None cook Island Red Cross made history in the Pacific by becoming the only http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64BUS2?OpenDocument

93. ZUJI Destination Guides Australia/Pacific cook islands. cook islands. history.It is thought that 40000 years ago the Pacific Region was totally uninhabited. http://www.zuji.com/dest/guide/0,1277,LNPLAU|4966|709|1,00.html

Feedback My ZUJI About ZUJI Help ... Log-in Regional Guide Introduction Fast Facts Best Time to Visit Money ... Australia/Pacific : Cook Islands Cook Islands 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.

94. The Head Heeb: Not Quite Nations Among others, the cook islands and Niue are full members, The result has beentwofold regional associations have become more willing to accept http://headheeb.blogmosis.com/archives/025812.html

The Head Heeb « Forgotten refugees Main One last chance » August 06, 2004 Not quite nations 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

95. 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

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 Bess Press (independent publisher since 1979, Hawaii) Book Bin - Pacifica (book dealer, Corvallis, OR, USA) Books Pasifika (book dealer, Auckland, NZ) Lonely Planet Online Manaaki Whenua Press (browseable catalogue of New Zealand science publications, Lincoln, NZ) Moon Travel Handbooks definitive travel guides, USA) Australia Fiji Islands Micronesia New Zealand ... 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 Online Book Catalog (910 titles=149K, courtsey of Assoc. of Amer. Uni. Presses , USA) University of Papua New Guinea Press Pacific Media Resources Cafe Pacific (D. Robie, news/articles from Asia-Pacific Network, Uni. of Tech., Sydney, Aust.)

96. James Cook University Archives Oral History James cook University Archives Oral history. Oral history Collection The Universityruns the oral history program in conjunction with the Department of http://www.jcu.edu.au/gen/Archivist/oral.html

James Cook University Archives Oral History 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 Growth of Engineering Department, innovations, commercial ventures, Pro-VC Research, personal projects, CRC Combined Research Centre, anecdotes. John Armstrong Townsville Teachers' College,1969, curriculum creation, student rules, regulations, Aboriginal education, (A.I.T.E.P), Koiki Mabo as student, introduction of mature age students, course evaluations, staff commitment, amalgamation, opposition, new admission standards and process. John Aubrey Tropical Veterinary Science, 1954, Douglas campus as early stock route, Parvo virus discovery by Bob Johnson, animal husbandry, Pimlico campus, Mount Isa experience, Strathmore (Cunningham) anecdotes, artifical insemination cattle, dogs, camels. Ken Back Patricia Back Joe Baker Baden Best James Birrell Jack Bordujenko Peter Brownell Keith Bryson Cyril Burdon-Jones Rod Campbell Eric Carman 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

97. 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

Ancient and Modern History 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 The origin of the Polynesian people who inhabit most of the South Pacific islands including Hawaii and New Zealand has been obscure and the location of a mythical homeland called "Hawaiki" unknown. 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 ancient tribes and canoes, modern tribal divisions.

98. 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/

dqmcodebase = "/javascript/" Subject Collections Business Computers Education ... South Pacific History This collection All of the IPL Advanced Resources in this category: You can also view Magazines Associations on the Net under this heading. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/ "This website contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on this country. It does not include people who are alive." Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Hawaii Looking Back http://starbulletin.com/specials/millennium/ Short history of Hawai`i; originally appeared in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 1999. New Zealand History http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/index.html Authored by the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand, this site includes annotated links organized by subject and a gallery of exhibitions on NZ history subjects. Polynesian History and Origin http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/polynesian.html This website from PBS Online explores Polynesian history and how "Hawaiians, Tahitians, New Zealand and Cook Island Maori, and other Pacific Islanders have begun to reconstruct their ancient craft and sail them over the long seaways of the Pacific in order to rediscover their oceanic heritage." Southern Cross University: Music Archive for the Pacific http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/arts/music/musicarchive/ArchiveHome.html

99. 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/

Home "The mission of the Council is to represent the citizens of Cook Inlet in promoting environmentally safe marine transportation and oil facility operations in Cook Inlet" Home About Us Council Committees Programs ... Login Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council CIRCAC Newsletter, Council Briefs (PDF) Read Our 2004 Annual Report (PDF) ... Former Mayor Don Gilman Passes CIRCAC Receives GREEN STAR AWARD CIRCAC at Industry Appreciation Days in Kenai August 27 CIRCAC at Alaska Oceans Festival July 16 in Anchorage CIRCAC at Pacific States/BC Task Force Meeting in Anchorage July 27 See other events listed on our Calendar Alaska Oil Spill Permits Tool Shorezone Mapping Video "Fly the Coastline" Cook Inlet Geographic Response Strategies Alaska Oil Spill Permits Tool Completed CIRCAC Expects to Speed Spill Responses 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.

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