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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Oceania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the eastern Pacific Ocean, part of the territory of Chile, and is sometimes included in Oceania.
New Zealand, along with New Guinea and nearby islands, Australia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia, constitute the separate Australasia ecozone.
Melanesia ;: Fiji · New Caledonia · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · Vanuatu
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 Martial arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some weapon systems have also survived as folk sports and as self-defense methods, including stick-fighting systems such as Jogo do Pau of Portugal, and the Juego del Palo style(s) of the Canary Islands.
More ancient origins exist for the shot put and the javelin throw, both weapons utilized extensively by the Romans.
It is known for its wide variety of techniques and weapons.
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Samoa began when immigrants from the Lau Islands in eastern....
Samoa began when immigrants from the Lau Islands in eastern Fiji arrived.
The Samoan Islands were first seen by Europeans in 1722 when three...
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Gregory the Great
Whenever opportunity offered, however, he was careful to provide for the needs of the faithful in these parts, frequently uniting them to some neighboring diocese, when they were too few to occupy the energies of a bishop.
On the islands, of which Sicily was by far the most important, the pre-existing church system was maintained.
Gregory appointed a vicar, usually the metropolitan of the province, who exercised a general supervision over the whole church.
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 Colour, Class and Custom: Notes
Total from 'Muslims in Crossfire', Pacific Islands Monthly September 1987, p.24.
These commonly-quoted figures are not census results; rather, they were drawn from an interim population survey conducted in 1986.
Mara is 'heir to the Fijian paramount line in the Lau Islands and the Tongan line established by Ma'afu'; both he and his wife, Adi Lady Lala, are 'direct descendants of the first Cakobau, as are also Ratu Sir George Cakobau, present Vunivalu of Bau and former Governor-General, and Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau,...
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 Biography, Credits and Stocklist, Brandon Cole Marine Photography
Lau Group- remote, undiscovered, Fiji’s "frontier"; Viti Levu.
Fishes, invertebrates, coral reefs, hard and soft corals, red footed boobies, topside scenics, divers.
Continued work on giant Pacific Octopus and sixgill sharks; return trip to the Bahamas for more Atlantic spotted dolphins and tiger sharks; marlin and sailfish in the tropical Pacific; California's kelp forests in Monterey and the Channel Islands.
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