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Topic: East Melanesian Islands

	World InfoZone - Solomon Islands Information - Page 1
		The Solomon Islands are situated in the South Pacific Ocean, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north east of Australia.
		The climate of the Solomon Islands is tropical.
		The population of the Solomon Islands was estimated at 552,438 in 2006.
	www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=SolomonIslands (414 words)

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		The 300-island archipelago of Fiji is at the bottom of the Melanesian chain of islands south from New Guinea.
		The archipelago is bound on the west by the Yasawas, the closest islands of the Fiji group to the Melanesian islands of Vanuatu.
		Melanesian influence is particularly marked among the Yasawa population, notably with regard to phisiogomy, language and socio-religious characteristics.
	www.lycos.com /info/fiji--fiji-islands.html (730 words)

	Islands ~ Modern Maps
		Réunion was first visited by the Portuguese in the early 16th century, and was settled by French colonists in the middle of the 17th century.
		Solomon Islands is an independent country consisting of an archipelago of ten Melanesian islands with a population of 400,000 people.
		After World War II the Islands were granted internal self-government in 1976 and independence in 1978.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/islands21.htm (248 words)

	Fiji Islands - MSN Encarta
		The Yasawa Group lies to the west of these major islands, and the Lau Group is to the east.
		Fiji’s large islands are of volcanic origin, with mountains rising to a maximum elevation of 1,324 m (4,344 ft) at Mount Tomaniivi on Viti Levu.
		Almost all of the islands are surrounded by coral reefs, giving the Fiji Islands one of the greatest total areas of coral reef in the world.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563473/Fiji_Islands.html (1683 words)

	Hotspots Revisited
		The East Melanesian Islands Hotspot encompasses the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon chain, the Santa Cruz Islands (Temotu), and the islands of Vanuatu.
		In terms of climate, the East Melanesian Islands Hotspot is composed of small and large, low and high islands that are uniformly tropical and humid.
		In all of the larger islands of the East Melanesian Islands Hotspot, the rugged highland forests are largely still intact and in good condition, but it remains unclear whether the original native faunas of these montane forests are comparably intact, especially given the threat from invasive species such as pigs, cats, and rats.
	www.biodiversityscience.org /publications/hotspots/MELANESIA.html (5035 words)

	Maluku Islands Summary
		The vegetation of the small and narrow islands, encompassed by the sea, is very luxuriant; including rainforests, sago, rice, and the famous spices nutmeg, cloves, mace, and others.
		Although cultures varied across this dispersed group of islands, there is a sense in which the Moluccas were a cosmopolitan society, in that traders from across the region took residence in Moluccan settlements, or in nearby enclaves, to conduct spice business.
		Its capital is Ternate, on a small island to the west of the large island of Halmahera.
	www.bookrags.com /Maluku_Islands (1640 words)

	Trobriand Islands
		The Trobriand Islands are an archipelago of several low-lying coral islands situated to the northeast of New Guinea.
		Geologically, the islands are primarily coral reefs, with some isolated volcanic and coral islands, the soils of which are excellent for agriculture, a fact not lost on the islanders.
		The islands' inhabitants had a long history of contact with other Melanesians, specifically with the Massim peoples to the East, with whom they were often at war.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /png/about_destin/trobriand_islands.html (677 words)

	Near Oceania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The boundary between the Asian and Australian faunal regions consists of a zone of smaller islands bearing the name of Wallacea, in honor of the great co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection.
		However, the islands of Wallacea (primarily Sulawesi, Ambon, Ceram, Halmahera and the Lesser Sundas) always remained an island world, imposing a barrier to the dispersal of terrestrial vertebrates, including early hominids.
		To the north and east of New Guinea, the islands of Near Oceania (the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomons) were likewise never connected to Sahul by dry land, for deep-water trenches also separate these from the Australian continental shelf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Near_Oceania (539 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Madagascar & Indian Ocean Islands - Overview
		The island is also host to several high mountain ecosystems such as Tsaratanana and Andringitra massifs, which are characterized by forest with moss and lichens.
		The Indian Ocean islands are composed of a range of relatively recent volcanic islands (the Mascarenes and the Comoros), fragments of continental material (the main group of the Seychelles), and the coral cays of the Amirantes and the atolls of the Farquhar, Cosmoledo, and Aldabra groups, as well as the five Iles Eparses.
		The volcanic islands have high peaks that in the recent past were covered by dense forest; indeed, the Comoros and the Mascarenes are sometimes subjected to very high levels of rainfall (up to 6,000 millimeters per year on Réunion).
	www.biodiversityscience.org /xp/Hotspots/madagascar/index.xml (498 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - East Melanesian Islands - Conservation Action
		Work to establish a conservation area in the Bauro Highlands of Makira Island, in the Solomon Islands is also underway, with the aim of having the area collectively managed by landowning groups and recognized by the government.
		The Solomon Islands government has developed a community-based conservation project in Komaridi, on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, leading to the creation of a local conservation area of lowland and montane rainforest.
		Because of the current lack of large-scale conservation action in the East Melanesian Islands, the region is in urgent need of increased conservation attention and investment.
	www.conservation.org /xp/Hotspots/east_melanesia/conservation.xml (592 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - East Melanesian Islands - Overview
		Once largely intact, the 1,600 East Melanesian Islands are now a hotspot, due, sadly, to accelerating levels of habitat loss, which has been caused chiefly by excessive logging, mining, and unsustainable farming practices.
		The East Melanesian Islands Hotspot lies northeast and east of New Guinea and includes the Bismarck and Admiralty Islands, the Solomon Islands, and the islands of Vanuatu.
		The two main islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, New Ireland and New Britain, are mountainous, with peaks exceeding 2,000 meters.
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/east_melanesia (350 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - East Melanesian Islands - Human Impacts
		The East Melanesian Islands hotspot holds exceptional cultural and linguistic diversity.
		The Bismarcks, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have been most affected by extensive logging of lowland and hill forests and subsequent land clearing for copra and oil palm plantations, while the Admiralties have been most affected by agricultural expansion.
		For example, a nearly decade-long war on Bougainville was related to poor management of the large Panguna Copper Mine on the island, and the fact that local people suffered most of the costs of the mine yet reaped few benefits.
	www.conservation.org /xp/Hotspots/east_melanesia/impacts.xml (364 words)

	Solomon Islands (10/06)
		The islands' ocean-equatorial climate is extremely humid throughout the year, with a mean temperature of 27° C (80° F) and few extremes of temperature or weather.
		The capital of Honiara on Guadalcanal was increasingly populated by migrants from the island of Malaita.
		The U.S. Ambassador resident in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea is accredited to the Solomon Islands.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2799.htm (3450 words)

	Solomon Islands: Report: Part I: Descriptive Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The islands stretch in a double chain 1,400-km in a southeast direction from Bougainville in Papua New Guinea to the northwestern border of the Republic of Vanuatu.
		The islands were then "lost" for another two hundred years until the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century when other explorers rediscovered the islands.
		This is shown as a percentage of the Solomon Islands population according to the census figures for 1976 and 1986 as well as projected ones for 1996, 2001, 2006, and 2011.
	www2.unesco.org /wef/countryreports/solomon_islands/rapport_1.html (3950 words)

	Solomon Islands (SOL) - Country Information - ADB.org
		Made up of 992 islands and covering a sea area of more than 1.35 million square kilometres, Solomon Islands is the third largest archipelago in the South Pacific.
		Solomon Islands is one of the least developed among ADB‘s Pacific developing member countries (PDMCs), ranking at the lowest among all Pacific Islands in the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI).
		While data on Solomon Islands is generally scarce, the social conditions are very likely to have deteriorated as a result of the tensions.
	www.adb.org /SolomonIslands/country-info.asp (1107 words)

	Fiji Islands (FIJ) - Country Information - ADB.org
		The outer islands and atolls are particularly exposed to extreme climate and weather conditions such as droughts, floods, and hurricanes.
		Some 50% of the population belongs to the native Melanesian ethnic group, while around 45% are descendants of Indian contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
		Indicators in general are lower on the second largest island of Vanua Levu compared to the main island of Viti Levu.
	www.adb.org /FijiIslands/country-info.asp (1244 words)

	SOLOMON ISLANDS
		The islands are covered in tropical rainforest and their steep hilly slopes are interspersed with swift flowing creeks, waterfalls and peaceful lagoons.
		He also named Guadalcanal, the island on which it is located for a town in Spain, and many of the other geographical features of the Group, which probably takes its own name from his reports of its riches.
		The Hopei Island is a self-contained cottage on an island 3kms offshore.
	www.janeresture.com /solomons/solomon_islands.htm (3710 words)

	The Crafts of the Solomon Islands
		In the north, the zone is Melanesian, to the south it comes within the region of Polynesia - covering as a generalisation, the crafts of carving and weaving, which happen to belong to men and women respectively.
		The islands of Santa Ana and Santa Catalina of the Eastern tip of Makira (San Cristobal) and Ulawa to the north, are well known for a range of carvings made from a lightweight and light coloured wood which is painted fl on completion.
		Buka is an island to the north, and Buin an area of settlement to the south, a few miles from the Western Solomons across the Western passage.
	www.melanesianhandicraft.com.sb /The_Crafts.htm (2096 words)

	Solomon Islands - Country Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		According to the March 2002 UN Common Country Assessment for the Solomon Islands, the Peace Monitoring Council (PMC) is a local group established by the Government under the Townsville Agreement to monitor the peace process in close cooperation with an International Peace Monitoring Team sponsored by Australia and New Zealand.
		According to Amnesty International’s November 2004 report, Solomon Islands: Women Confronting Violence, lack of awareness of human rights (including women’s rights), domestic law and human rights standards, and mechanisms of recourse are the biggest impediment to women reporting and/or seeking justice for violations of their human rights.
		In October 2000, women from the Solomon Islands participated in a conference in Canberra, which looked at conflict and peacemaking in the Pacific Women's approaches to resolving crises and traditional Melanesian conflict resolutions were among the topics discussed.
	www.womenwarpeace.org /solomon_islands/solomon_islands.htm (5286 words)

	The Solomon Islands: Headed for Self-destruction?
		The Solomon Islands are part of the chain of Melanesian islands on the eastern side of the East Indies, and they include some Polynesian outliers (Kent, 1972).
		Forced migration already occurs on the smaller islands due to the inability of the land to sustain the rising population.
		Although the Michi Village achieved success, "the Solomon Islands are not well suited for mass market tourism, because of their size and fragility of the environment, and because of the inconvenience in transport, as yet rudimentary infrastructure, and the high cost of getting to and staying in the islands"(www.boh).
	www.gdrc.org /oceans/csevilla.html (6468 words)

	Melanesian Mythology - Solomon Islands
		In the Solomon Islands as throughout Melanesia beliefs about origins, not only of men but also of animals, plants, and social customs are frequently linked with certain archetypal themes, one of which is the myth of the ogre-killing child born to an abandoned woman.
		Marruni is said to have come from the tiny offshore island of Tabar, which seemed to have been the home of the germinal culture of the area, and to have brought the malanggin or memorial rights for the dead with him from there.
		In parts of the Solomon Islands it passes into sharks, fish, birds, animals, men, stones and trees and as a person ages, his companions watch for a creature that buy its persistent association with him reveals itself as his future incarnation.
	www.janeresture.com /melanesia_myths/solomons.htm (1097 words)

	polynesia
		With Hawaii to the north, New Zealand to the south, and Easter island to the East, the Polynesian culture includes the islands of Somoa, Tonga, French Polynesia, and the Cook Islands.
		Most of the islands in Polynesia were formed within the last seven million years as a result of vigorous volcanic activity.
		Although there were different environments among the small islands of Polynesia, for the most part, the coasts were harsh to vegetation while the interiors were high and fertile because of the volcanoes.
	www.astronomy.pomona.edu /archeo/islands/polynesia1.html (741 words)

	ET / Indonesia Course: Lesson 1 (I)
		It is conceivable that the Melanesian tribes that populated Timor came from the West (on their way to Melanesia), and not from the East.
		Although the island of Timor was, from very early times, visited by Chinese merchants, mainly searching for the white sandal, of exceptional quality, that grew spontaneously in the island, Timor was kept almost completely aside from the main commercial routes.
		Not even the island of Bali, much further to the West, and even the Eastern part of Java, were under the control of this empire, where the Hindu and Buddhist religions had a very important influence.
	www.uc.pt /timor/CURSO1A.HTM (3438 words)

	SOLOMONS URGE MELANESIAN HUDDLE ON FIJI - December 14, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fiji was chair of the Pacific Islands Forum and the coup had placed its determinations in jeopardy, he said in a statement.
		An urgent meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group could help re-establish dialogue between the opposing parties in Fiji to try to avoid economic sanctions against the country, Sogavare said.
		He said the Solomon Islands government believed the imposition of sanctions against Fiji would only be counter-productive and would most affect the ordinary citizens of the country through economic hardship and instability.
	pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2006/December/12-14-fj03.htm (255 words)

	Solomon Islands - Solomons - Country Profile - Melanesia - South Pacfic
		The Solomon Islands consist of six major and approximately 900 smaller volcanic islands, coral atolls and reefs, more than 300 of them are inhabited.
		The former UK protectorate, established in the 1890s, is one of the poorest countries in the South Pacific; 85 percent of the country's population live in isolated rural villages on undeveloped outer islands.
		Premier institution of tertiary education in the Pacific region, jointly owned by the governments of twelve island countries, USP is an international centre of excellence for teaching, research and consulting on all aspects of Pacific life.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/solomon_islands.htm (901 words)

	Asia Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Regional Study - The South Pacific
		The South Pacific is a large and geographically dispersed region stretching more than 5000 kilometres from Papua New Guinea in the west to Pitcairn Island in the east, and from the equator to the Southern tip of New Zealand.
		It was evident in the course of research that the Pacific Islands forestry situation is generally not well documented in terms of statistics.
		However, with the exception of Papua New Guinea, the Melanesian land area is relatively small.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/W4354E/W4354E01.htm (498 words)

	Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities
		The Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands, a rugged, mountainous area stretching from Mexico to the Southwestern United States, is one of nine newly identified hotspots.
		The scientists delved beyond species to identify genera and families that are unique to the hotspots, concluding that hotspots also hold a disproportionately high degree of unique evolutionary history.
		Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands Hotspot, for example, has 24 plant and vertebrate families that are found nowhere else on Earth.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-02/ci-bhi012605.php (1076 words)

	The Solomon Island's East Rennell
		The primary language spoken on the islands is lingua franca (Melanesian pidgin).
		Each island holds a culture which is all their own, which makes it extremely difficult to make an over-all statement about the peoples and their traditions.
		The land division pattern reveals the cultural landscape of East Rennell due to the importance of the sparse amount of soil found in the region.
	newton.uor.edu /facultyfolder/baty/eastrennell/index.html (403 words)

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