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Topic: Pig Island

	Previously unstudied populations of glabrous(hairless) and dwarf pigs were identified and documented on the island of ...
		island chain..Along with a student research assistant, a two-fold field study was undertaken to investigate these mammalian anomalies from a scientific standpoint and at the same time document their cultural significance to the people of Tanna.
		Ten of the ten pigs we investigated were predominately fl in color, which resulted from the fl pigment in their skin, as there was no hair to influence the color or pattern.
		Each pigs was graded on a scale of 1 to 10.(1 being completely hairless and 10 being normally haired) Nine of the Ten pigs fell between 1 and 3, with one pig graded a 4 as a result of additional hair around the jowls and ears.
	vanuatu.tripod.com /hairlesspig.htm (2804 words)

	mona lisa production
		Pigs influence politics, seal contracts, are the focal point of ceremonies and social life.
		Pigs were the first and only mammals to populate the islands.
		The island of Tiwai is situated in the Moa River, in the east of Sierra Leone.
	www.monalisa-prod.com /vi/production/prod_animal_islands.htm (964 words)

	watressketch
		Pig Island Gut in Beals is the narrow passage between Pig Island and Great Wass Island, about one mile southeast of Jonesport and 30 miles east of Bar Harbor.
		Used primarily by lobster boats, Pig Island Gut is also used by boats engaged in the harvesting of herring, soft shell clams, sandworms, periwinkles, mussels, and sea moss.
		Pig Island Gut is a six foot deep channel, 80 feet wide, extending from Alley Bay to Eastern Bay.
	www.nae.usace.army.mil /water/topic.asp?mytopic=pig-island (187 words)

	Pig War Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We built a pig, took a ferry to San Juan Island, the pig was evicted, we left and ate lunch, and then wandered into the Pig War Museum.
		She once dressed her van like a pig and drove it around town, but the idea of the pig was no longer welcome on the island.
		It is, however, the "Pig" War, and while the pig needn't be reduced to the island mascot, the pig warrants more than to be thrown to the historical wayside.
	www.pigwar.com /festival.html (854 words)

	C3T2: Adventures on Pig Island
		This is Pig Island - or at least, one corner thereof.
		The island is only about twice as large as what is visible in this photo anyway.
		You can see the small brick wall that surrounds the cluster of trees that are the sole inhabitants of the island.
	pages.ca.inter.net /~ttoyooka/blog/2006/02/adventures-on-pig-island.html (357 words)

	Pig Island (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pig Island is a novel by British writer Mo Hayder, first published in 2006.
		Pig Island is home to a mysterious religious community, the Psychogenic Healing Ministries, and its leader Pastor Malachi Dove, and they ask him to come to the island to debunk the rumours of Satanism which are the result of the videotape.
		Joe's visit to the island, and it's horrific conclusion, is only the beginning of the legacy that Pig Island will leave on his life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pig_Island_(novel) (333 words)

	Auckland Island Pigs Rescue Project
		Pigs were originally introduced onto Auckland Island in 1807 by Captain Abraham Bristow of the Sarah in 1807 – and they thrived.
		Many pigs were seen on the island by Charles Enderby in 1850, and they hunted by the survivors of the wreck of the General Grant in 1866.
		As early as 1840, Joseph Hooker, a botanist with Ross, had noted that pigs on the island were consuming native vegetation, and in 1909 Edgar Waite observed that not only was the plant life suffering but the pigs were also destroying the eggs and young of ground-nesting birds.
	www.rarebreeds.co.nz /aucklandpigspro.html (897 words)

	Pig War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The pig of the Pig War was owned by the "British Empire" and was shot and killed by an "American" farmer for rooting potatoes in 1859 on San Juan island.
		What is important is the unwitting role the pig played in the course of human events, events which admittedly have only the most remote historical relevance, but events which have no less have bestowed the pig a kind of immortality.
		The pig was a bone of contention, a potato-rooting catalyst, whose particular circumstances of death attracted the attentions of two mighty nations, two nations which were trying to scribble outside their topographic lines, to exert spheres of influence, yes, to verily "gobble up" lands, any lands, no matter how remote, isolated, or wet and rainy.
	www.pigwar.com /pigwar_pig.html (526 words)

	Pig Back and Enchanted Isle ...
		Furthermore, the "magical island" is not only a westward projection of the islanders but can also come to be conflated with the real Ireland and seriously influence one's perception of the island when approaching or leaving it.
		In folk mythology, reference is frequently made to the Black Pig's Dyke, a series of earthworks which roughly constitutes the southern border of the province of Ulster, and the appearance of the Black Pig is generally taken as a warning against an imminent Armageddon (O'Malley 1979, 84-85).
		In this vein it is rather difficult to underestimate or ignore the island topos as an essential element contributing to the identity of Irishmen and Irishwomen in bios and graphe, in life and life-writing.
	webdoc.sub.gwdg.de /edoc/ia/eese/articles/huber/4_95.html (3074 words)

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		On Santa Cruz Island off the coast near Santa Barbara, the National Park Service and the Nature Conservancy are trying to do to the three little pigs what generations of fairy tales have done to big bad wolves: turn them into vicious marauders.
		Pigs have very thick skulls and are difficult to kill with a quick, clean shot.
		In the face of such dismissive attitudes about a promising and humane technology, one cannot help but wonder if the desire to eradicate pigs, rats, eagles, swans, and other "nonnative" animals is based on their ancestry rather than on their alleged impacts.
	www.animalliberationfront.com /News/Apr-May05/CIPigKilling.htm (779 words)

	Pig Island - Wal-Mart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vo Hayder's previous novel, The Devil of Nanking, was a dazzling, disturbing book that transcended the average thriller and confirmed her as one of that genre's most exciting talents.
		Now she delivers Pig Island, an equally astonishing, eerily fightening new work that broadens the scope of her dark vision.
		Pig Island is a riveting tale of fringe believers, dark secrets, and how skepticism can become its own sort of blind faith.
	www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=5168790 (721 words)

	Todd Matthews ++ Freelance Journalist
		The tip of Vancouver Island, less than a dozen miles away, is a wooded and green slice in the distance—with the buildings of downtown Victoria, B.C. shimmering in the distance.
		Lopez and Shaw Islands are crowded to the northwest, beyond the grove of firs.
		Before the Pig War, the British were determined to resist the tide of American migration sweeping across the Rocky Mountains.
	www.wahmee.com /pigwar.html (1753 words)

	Wild Pig Hunt Aims to Save California Island Foxes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Channel Islands off the California coast are home to 145 species of plants and animals found nowhere else in the world.
		On Santa Cruz island, non-native feral pigs may be pushing the island's unique and endangered foxes to the brink of extinction.
		The Santa Cruz island fox weighs 5 pounds (2.25 kilograms), one-third the mass of its evolutionary ancestor, the mainland gray fox.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2005/03/0316_050316_tvferalpigs.html (615 words)

	THE QUEEN OF PIG ISLAND-PAGE 1
		Yet the von Wagner case is commonplace, considered in relation to the case of the skeletons on Porcosito, or "Pig Island," as it is commonly called.
		There were other bones: bones of pigs, birds, and fishes; and also the scattered bones of another man who must have been no taller than the other little man. These bones were smashed to pieces and strewn over an area of several square yards.
		This is the history of the queen of Pig Island, and of the bones that Captain Oxford found.
	www.scifi.com /scifiction/classics/classics_archive/kersh2/kersh21.html (3794 words)

	AUCKLAND ISLAND PIGS
		Pigs were first introduced onto Auckland Island, south of mainland New Zealand, in 1807 as a source of food for whalers and shipwrecked sailors.
		By the end of the nineteenth century there was a thriving feral pig population on Auckland Island derived from the successive liberations over the previous century and these animals remained isolated over the next hundred years.
		In January 1999 a Rare Breeds Society expedition rescued and removed seventeen pigs – including several pregnant sows – from Auckland Island prior to the eradication of the remaining animals by the Department of Conservation (see » Auckland Island Pigs Rescue Project).
	www.rarebreeds.co.nz /aucklandpigs.html (255 words)

	Indian Folktales, Pirate Pig, One day, out for a stroll, Pirate Pig found a tub. "A boat," he thought, and rolled it ...
		On the lake lived ducks and other water birds, and in the middle was a small island, with long grass and shady trees.
		Pig longed to visit the island, but as he couldn't swim he could only look at it.
		At last the tub reached the island and Pirate Pig started searching for treasure, but he forgot that all good pirates anchor their boat before going ashore.
	www.4to40.com /folktales/index.asp?article=folktales_piratepig (300 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Scotland \| North East/N Isles \| Extinct island pig spotted again
		An extinct pig which was indigenous to Shetland has been seen for the first time in more than 100 years.
		The pig, which attacked lambs, was kept domestically until the 1800s, when landowners forced islanders to keep fewer swine and the breed died out.
		The job of bringing the pig back to life was then handed to taxidermist David Hollingworth.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6155172.stm (394 words)

	Pig Island by Mo Hayder reviewed by Chris High.
		Pig Island by Mo Hayder reviewed by Chris High.
		Strange goings on amongst a remote island community in the West of Scotland may not sound the most original of plotlines.
		But when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is challenged.
	www.chrishigh.com /reviews/books/pig_island_mo_hayder.htm (396 words)

	Cumberland Island
		On the west side of the island is fresh water and on the east side is the Atlantic Ocean.
		The mostnorthern part of the island is private property, and on the tip of the island is an abandoned lighthouse.
		The Cumberland Island park service gives tours of the mansion twice a month and the remainder of the time it is inhabited by Ed, the island's pig hunter.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~eec2/a4.html (381 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: San Juan Island Pig War -- Part 1
		The "Pig War" is the name commonly given to the 13-year standoff between the American Army and British Royal Navy on San Juan Island that began in the summer of 1859 after an American settler shot a British pig on the island that both nations claimed.
		Some accounts suggest that the treaty makers were unaware of the San Juan Islands and their multiple channels, but the islands had been known since the Spanish explorations and surveyed by both British and American naval expeditions (Vancouver in 1792 and Wilkes in 1841).
		Of all the islands in the archipelago, San Juan, closest to Victoria and overlooking the approaches to the harbor there, was the one the British viewed as strategically essential.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=5724 (3070 words)

	ESPN Outdoors - CALIFORNIA (January 2006): Pig numbers are in the rise in parts of state
		Pig numbers are in the rise in parts of state
		The public Joice Island pig hunt in Solano County is held in the Grizzly Island Wildlife Area (707-425-3828).
		Twenty-five to 100 pigs may be seen daily here, and experienced guides know where they are.
	sports.espn.go.com /outdoors/hunting/news/story?page=h_map_06_CA_pigs (833 words)

	New Pig War Page
		The “Pig War”, as the confrontation on San Juan Island came to be called, had its origin in the Anglo-American dispute over possession of the Oregon Country, that vast expanse of land consisting of the present states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, parts of Montana and Wyoming, and the Province of British Columbia.
		Thus the San Juan Islands became American possessions and the final boundary between Canada and the United States was set.
		Peace had finally come to the 49th parallel, and San Juan Island would be long remembered for the "war" in which the only casualty was a pig.
	www.nps.gov /sajh/Pig_War_new.htm (1157 words)

	The Pig War
		The Oregon Treaty of 1846 established the boundary between Canada and the United States from the Rocky Mountains westward to the coast.
		The issue dividing the two countries this time was the ownership of the often fog-shrouded San Juan Islands that dot the strait between what is today the state of Washington and British Columbia's Vancouver Island.* The San Juan Islands...
		From the Bay of Pigs on, Castro had an increased fear of a U.S. incursion on Cuban soil.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1030.html (565 words)

	KlezCalendar: Shirim perform 'Peter and the Pig', Staten Island, NY, Nov 9
		Shirim Klezmer Orchestra and Fishel Bressler perform "Pincus and the Pig," a
		Staten Island, 2800 Victory Boulevard, in the Willowbrook section of Staten
		Island at the intersection of Victory Boulevard, I-278 / Staten Island
	www.klezmershack.com /calendar/000662.php (186 words)

	The Pig War of San Juan Island at eclecticism
		When Cutlar offered to pay for the pig, his neighbor claimed that the pig was a champion breeder and demanded $100 for the loss.
		Incidentally, the construction of the redoubt at the top of a hill in the American camp to let the cannon oversee the water approaches to the island was supervised by engineer Henry Martyn Robert.
		This situation continued for the next twelve years, making the Pig War the longest single military conflict on U.S. soil — even if the only casualty was a hungry pig.
	www.michaelhanscom.com /eclecticism/2004/03/08/the-pig-war-of-san-juan-island (1023 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Opponents of Santa Cruz Island pig killing head back to court
		LOS ANGELES – Opponents of a program to exterminate thousands of feral pigs on Santa Cruz Island are heading to federal court Monday to try to convince a judge to stop the killings.
		The National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy say the pigs, which are descended from animals that ranchers brought there in the 1850s, must go because they're damaging archaeological sites and threatening native species like the endangered Santa Cruz Island fox.
		The ambitious Santa Cruz Island Restoration Plan also calls for reintroducing bald eagles to the island, moving golden eagles to the mainland and breeding foxes in captivity.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20050926-0434-ca-pigkilling.html (404 words)

	Grimesish Grumberlings - Where Have All the Pigs Gone
		Quite some time ago the “G” key of my typewriter sort of froze up on me. As at the time, I was writing yet another installment of the never-ending John Grimes saga this was no small inconvenience, especially since I had no light lubricating oil ready to hand.
		I said, “New Zealand.” He asked, “Since when has it been called pig Island?” Then, “Oh, I suppose it’s to do with their Prime Minister, Piggy Muldoon.” I said, “It’s always been called Pig Island.” He said, “I’ve never heard it called Pig Island.” And so on, and so on.
		I was beginning to think that I had strayed on to another Time Track until, at last, I found somebody in about my own age group who knew what and where Pig Island is but he admitted that he had not heard New Zealand so referred to for many, many years.
	www.bertramchandler.com /works/TheMentor32.htm (1065 words)

	San Juan Island Chamber of Commerce, member and visitor information.
		Native Americans favored the islands for their temperate climate, safe harbors and abundance of resources.
		Conflicts between British and Americans came to a head in the so-called Pig War of 1859, resulting in a join military occupation that lasted 12 years.
		Many of the islands' first buildings and settlements have settled back into the soil, many buildings have been rebuilt or kept up over the years.
	www.sanjuanisland.org /historical.html (404 words)

	Don't kill sheep on Big Island - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		There, the Park Service and the Nature Conservancy, the island's co-owners, conspire to assassinate the entire island pig population.
		The Park Service and the Nature Conservancy claim that the island pig attracts the "non-native" golden eagle, which then preys upon the rare island fox.
		The Park Service and the Nature Conservancy now try to pin on the poor island pig the consequences of their own violent, cruel, deadly acts.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Apr/29/op/op04a.html (386 words)

	Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving - Pig Island, Madang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The islands from the south near Madang are Kranket, Paeowai (Leper), Masses, Pig (Tab) and further to the north, Wangat (or Wangad).
		At the southern end of Pig Island there is a small passage between this island and Masses Island.
		This is another drift dive that starts to the north-west of Pig Island on the reef that stretches all the way to Wangat Island (except for a couple of passes).
	www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info /articles/pigs.htm (1306 words)

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