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	Mago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mago Barca, a Carthaginian general, brother of Hannibal
		Mago (agricultural writer), a Carthaginian quoted and drawn on by Columella
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mago (101 words)

	Mel's island shopping - People - www.smh.com.au
		It is in the north-west sector of the Northern Lau Group of islands in Fiji.
		Mago, says Colliers, "rises majestically" to 200 metres on its eastern cliffs and is fringed entirely by protective reefs, "powder white beaches" and "turquoise lagoons".
		Magos indigenous Fijian owners were moved off the island when they converted to Christianity in the 19th century.
	www.smh.com.au /news/People/Mels-island-shopping/2004/12/02/1101923255430.html (190 words)

	Weekend Millionaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Located in the northwest sector of the Northern Lau Group of islands in Fiji, Mago rises majestically to 670 feet on its eastern cliffs and is fringed entirely by protective reefs, powder white beaches and turquoise lagoons.
		One of the Island's most extraordinary features is its abundance of free flowing natural artesian spring waters.
		"Located in the northwest sector of the Northern Lau group of islands in Fiji, the Island rises majestically to 670 feet on its eastern cliffs and is fringed entirely by protective reefs, powder white beaches and turquoise lagoons."...
	weekendmillionaire.com /print.php?sid=35 (350 words)

	:: Unique Properties - Mago Island ::
		The Unique Properties Group of Colliers International is pleased to present the exclusive sale offering of Mago Island, Fiji: a rare opportunity to own one of the world's singularly most spectacular private islands.
		Mago (pronounced Mungo) Island is one of the largest freehold islands in the southwest Pacific consisting of over 5400 acres (8 square miles) of pristine ecology and varied terrain.
		The rich volcanic soil is evident in the lush, expansive interior plain and is considered by locals to be among the most fertile land in the region.
	www.uniqueproperties.ca /magoisland/index.cfm?PropertyID=6&TypeID=2 (154 words)

	Fiji Private Island for Sale - Mago Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The exclusive sale offering of Mago Island, Fiji is a rare opportunity to own one of the world's singularly most spectacular private islands.
		Mago Island's outstanding physical attributes also include two lagoons: a rare inland navigable lagoon on the northern side which is accessible by small craft; and an external reef protected lagoon which is rich in sea life and benefits from a protected fishery.
		Mago Island is offered on the basis of a freehold transfer of title at a price of US$15 Million.
	www.privateislandsonline.com /fijimago.htm (532 words)

	LuxuryRealEstate - Lau Group, Fiji - Blue Lagoon Island Resort - Residential (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The island is 225 acres in size, 1 mile long by 1/3 mile wide and 150 feet high, surrounded by a 5,000 acre plus lagoon which almost completely encircles the island, offering protection from extreme tides and providing the island with calm tranquil waters ideally suited for water sports.
		The island still provides a safe and luxurious haven from the storms of everyday life and is the only resort in the largely uninhabited and pristine archipelago, offering visitors with a privelaged image of Polynesian life as it was hundreds of years ago.
		The island was an operating coconut plantation in the 19th century; therefore the entire island is littered with coconut palms giving a truly tropical aspect.
	www.luxuryrealestate.com /74726 (2083 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Tribe contests Gibson island sale
		Gibson is believed to have purchased the 5,411-acre Mago island in Fiji's Northern Lau group for £7.8 million.
		The original Magoans were assured that the island was being leased to a cotton planter and not sold outright.
		The island is currently home to 35 sugar plantation workers and their families.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/4307621.stm (323 words)

	Best private islands 2004 - Forbes.com - MSNBC.com
		When we looked for the best private islands on the market, we tried to find islands that were close to civilization, at a range of price points and in a variety of geographical locations.
		Other islands — such as Norway Island near Vancouver, Canada — where most of the heavy lifting has been done, almost appeared to be a bargain when you consider the fact that the owners have already taken care of the upfront expenses of building a home, infrastructure, and so on.
		The price of Norway Island is 3.95 million CAD (about $3 million USD), and it includes three homes; a log guest home, a 4,500-square-foot main residence, and a caretaker's cottage; It also has a 60,000-gallon pool, tennis court, fruit orchard, and a 200-foot protected dock.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4687222 (815 words)

	USATODAY.com - Villagers challenge Gibson's island buy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		SUVA, Fiji (AP) — Mel Gibson has purchased a Pacific island hideaway in northern Fiji, but the sale may face a legal challenge from villagers who claim their ancestors were forced off the island.
		Gibson bought Mago Island from Japan's Tokyu Corp. for about $15 million.
		Any legal challenge is likely to be difficult, but a landless tribe of indigenous Fijians say their ancestors were forced from the island in the 19th century — and they want it back.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-03-03-gibson-island-sale_x.htm?csp=36 (295 words)

	Grandeur LUXURY LIVING ON THE GULF COAST
		In addition to the property costs, building on an island can cost 50 percent to 75 percent more than on the mainland because everything from equipment to labor must be brought in on a barge.
		The most expensive island Vladi has brokered to date was Norman Island in the British Virgin Islands for $12 million.
		Islands are also for sale in the Mediterranean, Fiji Islands and the Bahamas.
	www.news-press.com /special_sections/grandeur/stories/island_story.html (1060 words)

	Backpage Article Display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The gear is being loaded on a small local cargo ship at the port in Fiji's capital, Suva, for delivery to Mago Island, the shipping company official said on condition of anonymity.
		The director of The Passion of the Christ and star of the Mad Max films purchased the 2 164-hectare Mago Island - the largest privately owned island in the Fiji archipelago - from Japan's Tokyu Corp for about $15m in late 2004.
		He said he wouldn't want to disturb the environment of Mago," she said.
	www.news24.com /News24/Backpage/HotGossip/0,,2-1343-1344_1877929,00.html (256 words)

	Ibizavillas.com - Villas and Accommodations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This is the Catalan spelling of the island.
		It is difficult to describe the island as it is so many different feelings.
		These coves as you look at the map of the island are each distinctive of the other.
	www.ibizavillas.com /aboutibiza.htm (323 words)

	Film \| Next for Gibson, Paradise lost?
		But it is claimed that the government did not properly consult the descendants of the original inhabitants, who are demanding the 2,164-hectare (5,411-acre) island back.
		Fijian villagers say their families were cheated out of Mago Island for 2,000 coconut plants in the early 1800s, then chased off it at gunpoint by British settlers.
		The island, in the Lau archipelago, is claimed to be the largest privately owned island in the south Pacific.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5139366-3156,00.html (290 words)

	Mel Gibson May Buy Fiji Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Australian Herald Sun paper reports that the Aussie-raised Gibson had been flown by helicopter to Mago Island which is on the market.
		the Northern Lau Group of islands in Fiji, Mago rises majestically to 670 feet on its eastern cliffs and is fringed entirely by protective reefs, powder white beaches and turquoise lagoons.
		Mago Island is offered on the basin of a freehold transfer of title at a price of US$15 Million.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1292831/posts (1873 words)

	Fijians challenge island sale to Mel Gibson (villagers received 2,000 coconut plants for island) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		SUVA - Villagers in Fiji plan to challenge the sale of an island hideaway to Hollywood star Mel Gibson, claiming their ancestors were cheated out of the land over a century ago and those who refused to leave murdered, a report said.
		Namalata Development Committee chairman Timoci Waqalevu alleged the villagers were defrauded when the 21 square kilometre (eight square mile) Mago Island in the Lau group was sold by chiefs in the 19th century for 2,000 coconut plants, the Fiji Times said.
		The island was on the market late last year for $15 million and was reportedly bought by Gibson from Japan's Tokyu Corp after a visit in December.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1352677/posts (1174 words)

	fpharand's Hotspots - World Wind Central
		Necker Island is Sir Richard Branson's well-known exclusive island in the British Virgin Islands.
		Located on the west side of São Miguel Island, it is one of the most popular national parks in the islands.
		It is a 8-km-wide island and the volcano itself is 1 066-m-high.
	www.worldwindcentral.com /hotspots/index.php?cat=user&user=fpharand&sort=-3 (2459 words)

	Backpage Article Display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Australian-raised screen heart-throb and movie industry mogul flew to Fiji earlier this month where he bought the 2160-hectare island of Mago from a Japanese hotel chain, People magazine reported.
		Gibson plans to turn the Pacific paradise, that is home to 40 residents, mostly coconut farmers and their families, into his own personal retreat, the US magazine said in its edition due to hit news-stands on Friday.
		The South Pacific island boasts two lagoons and stunning white-sand beaches, it said.
	www.news24.com /News24/Backpage/HotGossip/0,,2-1343-1344_1633900,00.html (153 words)

	Landowners query sale of island Fijilive - Fiji news breaking fiji news elections 2006 fiji government news fiji coup ...
		The director of The Passion of the Christ and star of the Mad Max films purchased the 5411-acre Mago Island - the largest privately owned island in the Fijian archipelago - from Japan's Tokyu Corporation for about $15million in late 2004.
		Several grievances by similarly displaced native land owners were aired at the meeting of the 'turaga ni vanua', the direct owners of native land.
		The original inhabitants of Mago were chased away by gunmen in 1860.
	www.fijilive.com /news/show/news/2006/03/12/12Fijilive1207.html (356 words)

	Travel Video Television News
		A group of villagers, who claim to be the original owners of Mago Island, have condemned its sale for $24.7 million to Hollywood action hero Mel Gibson.
		English planter Rupert Ryder bought the island soon after the original natives were removed until it was sold in 1930 to copra farmer, Jim Borron.
		He said the sale of Mago Island was just one example of how many islands that were declared freehold during the 1800s were being sold without the knowledge of its original landowners.
	travelvideo.tv /news/more.php?id=A3747_0_1_0_M (457 words)

	Gibson adds bowling alley to hideaway island - People - Entertainment
		Hollywood star and director Mel Gibson is shipping an eight-lane bowling alley to his private Pacific island in northern Fiji, a shipping company official says.
		The gear is being loaded on a small local cargo ship at the port in Fiji's capital, Suva, for delivery to Mago Island, the shipping company official told The Associated Press.
		Gibson and his family have been to the island in north-east Fiji several times since buying it.
	www.smh.com.au /news/people/gibson-adds-bowling-alley-to-hideaway-island/2006/02/09/1139379617597.html' (298 words)

	Gibson to buy island - People - www.theage.com.au
		In an unsourced story, the newspaper said Gibson had been flown by helicopter to Mago Island which is on the international market.
		Colliers International are advertising the island at US$15 (A$19 million).
		It says it has a pristine ecology and varied terrain: located in the northwest sector of the Northern Lau Group of islands in Fiji, Mago "rises majestically" to 200 metres on its eastern cliffs and is fringed entirely by protective reefs, "powder white beaches" and "turquoise lagoons".
	www.theage.com.au /news/People/Gibson-to-buy-island/2004/12/02/1101923252529.html?oneclick=true (206 words)

	Stamps Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Test pits were excavated to check for cultural deposites in rock overhangs on the northwest side of the island.
		A subsequrnt surface collection in a cultivated area near a center of the island included a sherd with dentate-stamped decoration.
		The first excavations made on Mago Island were part of a project of the University of the South Pacific in 1996, led by Patrick Nuun of the geography Department and involving researchers from Fiji Museum and the Australian National University.
	www.stampsfiji.com /stamps/pottery (843 words)

	Pacific Islands: PINA and Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gibson visiting the island in the Lau Group last December and is reported to have offered $24.5 million to buy it.
		The website said the island was first purchased by Rupert Ryder from Somosomo chiefs who "removed the population off the island after they adopted Christianity in the mid-19th Century".
		Mr Ryder sold the island to the Borron family in the 1930s, who later sold it to Tokyu Corporation in the 1980s.
	www.pacificislands.cc /pina/pinadefault.php?urlpinaid=14631 (793 words)

	Villagers challenge Gibson's island buy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		SUVA, Fiji - Mel Gibson has purchased a Pacific island hideaway in northern Fiji, but the sale may face a legal challenge from villagers who claim their ancestors were forced off the island.
		Any legal challenge is likely to be difficult, but a landless tribe of indigenous Fijians say their ancestors were forced from the island in the 19th century - and they want it back.
		The 500 tribe members are raising funds to challenge the sale in court, the Fiji Times newspaper reported.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/celeb/articles/0303gibson.html (280 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Bowling alley moved to Mel's island
		The gear is being loaded on a small local cargo ship at the port in Fiji's capital, Suva, for delivery to Mago Island, the shipping company official said.
		The director of The Passion of the Christ and star of the Mad Max films purchased the 5,411-acre (2,164-hectare) Mago Island - the largest privately owned island in the Fijian archipelago - from Japan's Tokyu Corporation for about $15 million (£8.6 million) in late 2004.
		No comment could be obtained from Gibson's manager on Mago, which is located about 240 kilometres (150 miles) east of Suva.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=206972006 (454 words)

	Mel's 'Passion' buys him an island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Australia-raised screen heartthrob flew to Fiji earlier this month where he bought the 2,160-hectare island of Mago from a Japanese hotel chain, News24.com reported Saturday.
		Gibson plans to turn the Pacific paradise, which is home to 40 residents, mostly coconut farmers and their families, into his own personal retreat, it said.
		The South Pacific island has two lagoons and stunning white sand beaches, it said.
	www.nowrunning.com /news/news.asp?id=2065 (146 words)

	Mel Gibson buys personal Pacific island: report. 10/12/2004. ABC News Online
		Australian actor Mel Gibson, flush from the huge success of his religious film The Passion of Christ, has splashed out $US15 million on a private Pacific island, a report said.
		Gibson flew to Fiji earlier this month where he bought the 2,160 hectare island of Mago from a Japanese hotel chain, People magazine reported.
		Gibson plans to turn the Pacific paradise, that is home to 40 residents, mostly coconut farmers and their families, into his own personal retreat, the US magazine said.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200412/s1262008.htm (209 words)

	Mel and Kylie set sail for island life
		French island is found in the waters east of Melbourne
		Movie veteran Mel Gibson is said to have splashed out £8 million for Mago Island in the tropical waters north of Fiji, while pop diva Kylie Minogue has paid a comparatively modest £170,000 for a chunk of French Island near Melbourne.
		The Aussie songstress is now the proud owner of a 20-hectare estate on the sun-kissed isle, which can only be accesses by boat or helicopter.
	www.hellomagazine.com /travel/2005/03/09/kylieminogue (305 words)

	St. Lucia Hotel - Mago Estate Hotel Soufriere St. Lucia
		The Mago Estate Hotel is located just above the fishing village of Soufriere on the west coast of the island of Saint Lucia.
		The island of Saint Lucia is no more than 23 Km wide and 45 Km long, and it is situated between the islands of Martinique and Saint Vincent, close to the northern coast of South America.
		The fire place is used as a barbecue on given nights where guests can relax under the stars to Mago's resident band, Heritage.
	www.southtravels.com /america/stlucia/magoestatehotel (509 words)

	Travel Video Television News
		Student groups from throughout the world can now create and star in their own reality show in Fiji’s Kadavu Island, as their struggles to master the challenges of life on a remote Pacific Island are documented through film, photos and journals.
		The World Health Organization says Australian authorities should not have reported a case from Plantation Island Resort as cholera because it was not the dreaded disease.
		A WHO analysis showed the suspect cholera case reported in Australia was not cholera but the bacterium found on the patent was vibrio cholera, a strain of the disease.
	travelvideo.tv /news/index.php?id=C10_102_1 (600 words)

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