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28 unusual facts about Pacific islands


Allan Riverstone McCulloch

McCulloch travelled widely for his collections, including trips to Queensland, Lord Howe Island, New Guinea, the Great Barrier Reef and various Pacific islands.

Alloteropsis semialata

Alloteropsis semialata, known commonly as black seed grass, cockatoo grass, donkersaad gras, swartsaadgras, tweevingergras, and isi quinti, is a perennial grass distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics of Africa, Asia and Australasia, including Pacific Islands and Madagascar.

Aquaculture in Nauru

Aquaculture in Nauru has been practiced much longer than aquaculture in any other Pacific Islands country, the country's milkfish industry predating contact with Europe.

Chelsea Sugar Refinery

Chelsea purchases bulk raw sugar from various sources in the Pacific and Australia, which is brought in by boat and processed and packaged at the Refinery.

De Havilland DH.50

The Chief of the Air Staff, Group Captain Richard Williams, and two crew members undertook a three-month, 10,000 mi (16,093 km) round trip from Point Cook, Victoria to the Pacific Islands.

East Maitland – Morpeth railway line

St Michael was a seagoing ship that traded between New South Wales and Pacific Islands in the early 1820s.

Fusion cuisine

Other examples of this style include Tex-Mex, which combines Southwestern United States cuisine and Mexican cuisines, and Pacific rim cuisine, which combines the different cuisines of the various island nations.

Gehyra mutilata

It has made its way to several areas of the world including Sri Lanka, Indochina, and many of the U.S. Pacific Islands.

Geography Cup

Most participants had little trouble recognizing the major European and Asian countries but many people on both teams had trouble locating small Pacific Islands and some African countries.

Greg Percival

He became a telegraph messenger in 1941, and was employed by the Royal Australian Navy in this capacity from 1942 to 1946, serving in anti-submarine patrol boats in New Guinea and the south-west Pacific Islands.

History of Australian rules football

The Arafura Games, held in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia is a Multi-sport event for South East Asia and East Asian island nations, northern Australia and the Pacific Islands which has Australian football as a permanent competition sport, rather than a demonstration sport.

Human rights in Australia

The Act gave women a vote in federal elections but Aboriginal people and people from Asia, Africa or the Pacific Islands (except for Māori) were excluded unless entitled under Section 41 of the Australian Constitution.

Human trafficking in South Korea

South Korean men continue to be a significant source of demand for child sex tourism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Hypseleotris cyprinoides

Hypseleotris cyprinoides, the Tropical carp-gudgeon, is a species of sleeper goby found in fresh, brackish and marine coastal waters from Africa through southern Asia to the Pacific Islands.

Immigration Act of 1917

The most controversial part of the law was the section that designated an "Asiatic Barred Zone", a region that included much of Asia and the Pacific Islands from which people could not immigrate.

International Amateur Radio Union

IARU Region 3 includes the member societies representing amateur radio operators in Australia, most of Asia, and the Pacific Islands.

John Macmillan Brown

The Macmillan Brown Library's collections focus on New Zealand and Pacific Islands history.

Joseph Pitty Couthouy

A good linguist, he spoke fluent Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, and had mastered several dialects used in the Pacific Islands.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection is a collection of the library at the Victoria University of Wellington which provides a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials.

Pacific Basin Development Council

The Council is concerned with the economic and social development of the Pacific Islands, and conducts research and implements projects to that end.

Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum

Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum or PBIF, is a regional, non-governmental, scholarly organization that seeks to provide a multilateral venue to support knowledge transfer and information access in the Pacific Islands.

Ralph L. Boyce

His area of responsibility included Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.

Richard Seddon

He is also noted for his support of New Zealand's own "imperial" designs – Seddon believed that New Zealand should play a major role in the Pacific Islands as a "Britain of the South".

Sprent Dabwido

Dabwido's first major international meeting as president was at the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, as a representative of the Pacific Islands grouping of Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Teouma

The site contains the oldest known cemetery within the Pacific Islands, and has been important in the gathering of information relating to the Lapita people of the ninth and tenth centuries BC.

Type 2 Ka-Mi

The Type 2 Ka-Mi was designed for the Navy's Special Naval Landing Forces for the amphibious invasion of Pacific Islands without adequate port facilities, and for various special operations missions.

Vaughn J Featherstone

Featherstone spent several years in the Young Men general presidency of the church, and has served in area presidencies in the Philippines and Pacific.

William R. Dickinson

Dickinson is renowned for his work in plate tectonics, sedimentary geology and Pacific Oceana geology and is considered one of the foremost experts on the geology of the Colorado Plateau.


Acacia mearnsii

mearnsii is native to South-eastern Australia and Tasmania, but has been introduced to North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Pacific and Indian Ocean islands, Africa, and New Zealand.

August 2007 lunar eclipse

The Pacific regions of Canada and the continental United States (including all of Alaska) witnessed the whole event, along with most of eastern Australia, New Zealand and all the Pacific Island regions (except New Guinea), and the tip of the Chukchi Peninsula that includes the town of Uelen, Russia.

Common galaxias

Common galaxias are one of the most widely distributed freshwater fish in the world and can be found around throughout New Zealand; in coastal streams in south eastern Australia, Tasmania and some parts of south west Western Australia; in Chile (From 35°S to 55S°), Patagonia, Argentina; in the Falkland Islands; and, in some Pacific Islands such as New Caledonia.

Fa'asamoa

The fa'asamoa consists of the Samoan language, and customs of relationships and culture, that is a traditional and continuing Polynesian lifestyle of the Pacific Islands and diaspora.

General Order No. 1

The senior Japanese commanders and all ground, sea, air and auxiliary forces in the Japanese Mandated Islands, Ryukyus, Bonins, and other Pacific Islands shall surrender to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet.

Juan de Salcedo

He joined the Spanish military in 1564 for their exploration of the East Indies and the Pacific, at the age of 15.

Kamilo Beach

In ancient times, Kamilo Beach was a location where Native Hawaiians would go to find large evergreen logs, drifted ashore from the Pacific Northwest, for building dugout canoes.

Martin de Goiti

Martín de Goiti was one of the soldiers who accompanied the Spanish colonization of the East Indies and the Pacific, in 1565.

Oceanic art

Oceanic art or Oceanian art refers to the creative works made by the native peoples of the Pacific Islands and Australia, including areas as far apart as Hawaii and Easter Island.

Pasifika Festival

The Pasifika Festival (also known as Pasifika) is a Pacific Islands-themed festival held annually in Western Springs, Auckland City, New Zealand.