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| | Important News: Starvation facing sinking singing Polynesian civilisation... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Takuu or Mortlock atoll, Papua New Guinea's eastern most territory, is sinking due to dramatic plate tectonics, taking with it a community of 400 people who have over 1,000 songs they can sing from memory. |
 | | Takuu is short of rice, tin pis, etc, etc.... |
 | | University of Auckland's Richard Moyle, an ethnomusicologist who is writing the first, and what may be the last ethnology of the people of Takuu, was on the island when the tide seemed to go out and then not come back in for another week. |
| www.maskiflynn.co.uk /londtaim.html (735 words) |
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