Pacific Islands Forum

Nauru, is a small country located in the Pacific Islands that not many people know of. Nauru is located approximately twenty-five miles south of the earths equator, and it’s closest neighboring country is Banaba, another island that is about two hundred miles east of Nauru. The territorial size of the country is only about eight square miles, with a population of “9540” people (Nauru: 2016 Country Review, 3). Nauru “became an independent” country “in 1968,” making it the “smallest republic in…

small island called Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands, located northeast of Taiwan and in the East China Sea. For some time, the Islands were ignored until the Chinese, Japanese, and later Taiwanese claimed to have discovered the Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands. This debate has been brought to light once more by the purchase of some of the Islands by the Japanese. This purchase has been predicted to initiate war between the Chinese and Japanese. Each country has their own position on their claim of the Islands.…

As being said in the rubric, Easter Island covers almost 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean, specifically located 2,300 miles from Chile’s west coast and 2,500 miles east of Tahiti. In 1722, the island was known as Rapa Nui to its earliest inhabitants, Dutch explorers, and was christened Passeiland (Easter Island). Easter Island’s most known claim of fame is the 900 giant stone figures called “moai” located all over the land. These figures reveal that the creators were master…

A large emphasis for the New Zealand National Committee is the focus on the Pacific Islands in particular the Solomon Islands and Samoa. A large portion of campaigning by the UN Women is against violence towards women, with projects such as their Walk for Women fundraiser. UN Women, Walk for Women is a new initiative where you set the date, the place and the pace in hope to fundraise for the Islands within the Pacific. The idea is to fundraise through small donations by walking, biking or…

isn't as great as it sounds, criminals lurk ever alleyway and citizens cower in fear, no tourist knows the dark secrets that lie in this tropical land. But young Jim Holloway and his friends and family are unfortunate enough to crash on this secretive island, how will Jim save his friends and protect his family from the dangers ahead, find out by reading Separated! Jim was laying on the hot yellow…

paradises, what do you think about? Do you think about where that could possibly be, or how that could exist. I think of the island of St. Croix, a small virgin island just off the coast of Puerto Rico. It is an island of beauty, culture, and color. St. Croix is the most beautiful place I have ever seen, it looks like those pictures you see of small paradises. This tiny island is made up of huge hills covered in forests and surrounded by crystal clear water. The hills are so vast and tall…

Hawaii would be a rather uncomfortable place to live by the end of this century. The number of tropical storms striking the archipelago, which is the strip of water containing the islands that make up Hawaii, is expected to rise in the Pacific. When climate change increases significantly, researchers from Japan, China and Hawaii have calculated an increase in the number of cyclones reaching the shores. On average an extra one or two cyclones per year are projected to affect Hawaii, as opposed to…

1.Introduction My rational of choosing Japan for a holiday is because I personally like their culture, savoury food and their beautiful scenery of the country. Japan is an island in the Pacific in which is divided by the east coast of Asia by the Sea of Japan. Japan consists of four main islands that are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. Tokyo is one of a prefecture of Honshu and other largest cities that include Yokahama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kyoto, Kawasaki, Saitama, Hiroshima and Sendai.…

theory’s for why and how the Polynesians spread across the pacific, but there is no definite answer. So I’ve collected information from many different websites to create an explanation on how the Polynesians travelled across the entire pacific. The early Polynesians were intelligent explorers who settled in remote islands in the pacific. The Polynesians are descendants of the Lapita people who lived on the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The Lapita people settled in Fiji, New…

Today is the day that I Kamehameha the Great, set out with nine-hundred-sixty war canoes and ten-thousand soldiers for Oahu. It has been an enduring voyage conquering island after island here in Hawaii. “Ka’iana prepare the landing party,” I ordered the high ranking ali’i. “Yes! Your Majesty,” Ka’iana replied. For some reason this particular battle seemed to cause this wildness in all of my men. It’s like my men entertain the thought of bloodshed and are eager to turn…