The residents of Fanalei Island, in the Solomon Islands, say the lucrative hunts will help them buy land elsewhere and move ...
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Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...
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A Rare Polynesian Canoe Was Found By A Fisherman And His Son In New ZealandAround 3,000 years ago, people from Southeast Asia began sailing out into the Pacific and settling on the islands of […] ...
Polynesian migration over the vast Pacific was made possible by the coconut palm: coir from the fruit's outer casing, extracted by soaking in sea water, was plaited into sinnet and used in canoe ...
The makeshift canoe – called Tomoko and traditionally ... who wore black shirts that read “Welcome To Solomon Islands.” As young women showed off their hip-shaking dance to the delight ...
The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into ... first along the Solomon Island chain, and then to the Banks and Vanuatu Archipelagos.
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