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	Tikopia - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Tikopia is the southernmost of the Santa Cruz Islands, located in the province of Temotu.
		Tikopia is a high island, covering an area of 5 km² (2 sq.
		Reproductive policy was particularly restrictive, however: only the eldest son in each family was allowed to have children and when an unwanted child, for economic or virginic ideal reasons, was born, the face of the child was "turned down", a euphemism for infanticide.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/t/i/k/Tikopia.html (546 words)

	Solomon Islands: About Tikopia
		Tikopia is part of Temotu Province, the most easterly part of the Solomon Islands.
		Four chiefs rule the island of Tikopia and the neighbouring islands of Anuta and Fatutaka.
		Only the eldest son in each family was allowed to have children and when an unwanted child was born to a single woman who became pregnant or to a married couple who could not cope with another child, the face of the child is turned down.
	www.janesoceania.com /solomons_tikopia/index.htm (389 words)

	Tikopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Zealand anthropologist, Raymond Firth, who lived on Tikopia in 1928 and 1929 found a "cult of virginity" and widespread infanticide among the islanders, whom he described as gentle and loving.
		Reproductive policy was particularly restrictive, however: only the eldest son in each family was allowed to have children and when an unwanted child was born, the face of the child was "turned down", a euphemism for infanticide.
		Jared Diamond's Collapse describes Tikopia as a success case in matching the challenges of sustainability, contrasting it with Easter Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tikopia (616 words)

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		Tikopia is a small, volcanic island, approximately six square miles in size.
		Marine fauna are the major source of protein in the Tikopia diet and are taken by line or net fishing, frequently from sea-going canoes, or by collecting with nets along the reefs.
		We, the Tikopia: a sociological study of kinship in primitive Polynesia.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7873 (1081 words)

	'Total Devastation' Seen On Cyclone-Hit Pacific Island
		All contact was lost with Tikopia 24 hours before the cyclone hit and Solomon Islands officals hold grave fears for the inhabitants of the remote outpost more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) northeast of Australia.
		He said Tikopia appeared to have been hit when Cylone Zoe was at its peak, with winds of between 300 and 350 kilometres per hour (186 to 217 miles per hour).
		Tikopia has a long history of dealing with cyclones, in 1992 Cyclone Tia in 1992 wiped out most of its housing and food crops while a storm in 1956 killed 200 people.
	www.rense.com /general33/total.htm (685 words)

	'Total devastation' at Tikopia: News24: World: News24
		All contact was lost with Tikopia 24 hours before the cyclone hit and Solomon Islands officials are gravely concerned about the fate of its 2 000 inhabitants.
		He said Tikopia appeared to have been hit when Cylone Zoe was at its peak, with winds of between 300 and 350 kilometres per hour.
		Tikopia has a long history of dealing with cyclones - in 1992 Cyclone Tia wiped out most of its housing and food crops while a storm in 1956 killed 200 people.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/0,,2-10_1302892,00.html (549 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Cyclone survivors tell of island terror
		Inhabitants of the remote Pacific island of Tikopia survived a devastating cyclone and massive waves that destroyed hundreds of their homes a week ago by hiding in caves, a newspaper reported in Sydney on Saturday.
		Tikopia, part of the Solomon Islands chain, had been cut off from the outside world since Cyclone Zoe hit the area with winds of more than 300 kilometres per hour.
		Earlier overflights of Tikopia by fixed-wing aircraft showed entire villages wiped out by the storm, fuelling fears of a heavy death toll among the island's population of up to 2 000.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/198943.htm (531 words)

	Tikopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tikopia is a small, volcanic island, about six square miles in size.
		The Tikopia way of farming uses as method referred to as the “slash-and-burn” method and planting is done with digging stick tools.
		Tikopia religious systems are orientated around rituals for ancestors and gods.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/pacific/tikopia.html (473 words)

	A voyaging Canoe for Tikopia
		Tikopia is a tiny remote Polynesian island in the Western Pacific, which has maintained self-sufficiency for 3000 years.
		The Tikopian double canoe design we intend to build for Tikopia and Anuta is the Child of the Sea (Tama Moana in Polynesian), which when designed 3 years ago, was inspired by the unique hull shape of the original Tikopian canoes.
		In 1916, when Tikopia officially adopted the Christian church (Church of England), the Great Grandfather of one of the Tikopian Chiefs donated the island’s 9m Sacred Canoe to the Bishop of Auckland.
	tikopia.co.uk (798 words)

	Peter W. Wood on Tikopia & Raymond Firth on National Review Online
		And the total population of Tikopia — about 1,300 — is smaller than the enrollment in the average American high school.
		Firth went back to Tikopia in the 1950s and, among his later books, is an account of what happened after all the Tikopians became Christian.
		Ships with emergency supplies are on their way to Tikopia and Anuta, and we can expect that these resourceful people, currently surviving on green coconuts, will soon begin to rebuild their battered lives.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-wood010603.asp (1484 words)

	Obituary: Sir Raymond Firth 1901-2002 Oceania - Find Articles
		The Tikopia were extremely resistant to outside intrusion and had successfully kept missionaries and colonial government at bay until the early 1900s.
		In We, the Tikopia he wrote, '...what justification can be found for this steady pressure to break down the customs of a people against whom the main charge is that their gods are different from ours?' (1936:50).
		I therefore had to ask, when Tikopia made statements to me that occurred in the same form in Firth's work, whether they liked his version of themselves so much that they had adopted it or whether this was the persistence of culture.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_200203/ai_n9030797 (944 words)

	Atom Voyages \| Tikopia Unspoilt - Sailing to Solomon Islands Santa Cruz Group Tikopia Island
		This is how I arrived alone at Tikopia, a remote and unspoilt island at the far eastern end of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.
		Tikopia stands out from the ocean like a green fortress, surrounded by coral and pounding surf.
		By custom, the chiefs of Tikopia are not allowed to travel outside of their island unless the Solomon Islands government requests them for a meeting in Guadalcanal.
	www.atomvoyages.com /articles/tikopia.htm (2670 words)

	Slow boat to relief for island survivors - smh.com.au
		Three of the four leading Tikopia chiefs lived there and it was effectively the main centre of the island.
		Tikopia and nearby Anuta, with a population of about 600, bore the full brunt of the cyclone.
		"Tikopia Island would have been in the eyewall of Cyclone Zoe when it was at its peak strength, every tree on the island has been blown over or shredded," Mr Mackley said.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/02/1041196728310.html (1609 words)

	Solomon Islands - The Miracle of Tikopia
		An aerial view of Tikopia in which its volcanic origins are evident.
		The islanders had survived by fleeing to the high country along paths Tikopians had used for centuries during cyclone emergencies to shelter in mountain caves from 370 kilometer per hour winds and gigantic waves which swept across the low-lying areas of the island.
		The first arrivals at Tikopia expected to see hundreds of dead and festering bodies, but rather were just overwhelmed with people running towards the helicopter.
	www.janesoceania.com /solomons_tikopia/index1.htm (325 words)

	Help arrives at last for ruined isle - smh.com.au
		Tikopia and other islands in the region have suffered much loss of life during past cyclones, most notably in 1950 and 1992.
		Mr March said surveillance indicated that Tikopia was by far the hardest hit, and there were no grave concerns for inhabitants of the other islands in the remote region, 1000 kilometres form the Solomons capital, Honiara.
		A second boat, Isabella, is expected at Tikopia early this morning and a third is loading at Honiara.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/05/1041566309469.html (565 words)

	help save a civilization - Tikopia
		Tikopia, in the Solomon Islands, is only about two miles long and a mile wide.
		Other accounts and information on the storm damage can be found thru a Google search on "Tikopia".
		Today, the water in the Lake is salt and the sea comes and goes with every tide through a narrow breach.
	home.netcom.com /~yellowrose/tikopia/index.html (492 words)

	Canberra displays callous indifference toward storm-ravaged Pacific islanders
		The first supplies and trained medical staff are due to arrive on Tikopia later today or early tomorrow aboard a Solomon Islands patrol boat funded by Canberra—that is, nearly a week after the cyclone struck.
		“Tikopia Island would have been in the eye of Cyclone Zoe when it was at its peak strength.
		The fact that the radio transmitter on Tikopia has been out of action since November and its clinic is “not in very good shape” is symptomatic of the state of the country’s infrastructure.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jan2003/solo-j04.shtml (1443 words)

	A Daily Dose of Architecture: Tikopia, Part 2
		In the image above, Tikopia is almost literally in the eye of the storm.
		A storm surge of 5-10m was reported by residents [of Tikopia].
		Granted that Tikopia's geographical isolation does not extend to practice, as it has long traded with other islands, for example, but this scale of help goes beyond that extended history considerably.
	archidose.blogspot.com /2006/05/tikopia-part-2.html (434 words)

	A Voyaging Canoe for Tikopia
		We should build 2 Tikopian Canoes (by our builder in the Philippines) and give them to the islands of Tikopia and Anuta (it’s sister island), so they can continue to be self-sufficient and take pride in their ancient sailing heritage.
		The two canoes would have to be sailed the 3000 miles to Tikopia along the ancient Polynesian migration route.
		This paradise was to feel the full force of nature's wrath as Cyclone Zoe approached the islands of Tikopea and Anuta on the morning of 28 December 2002.
	www.multihullpages.com /tikopia.html (686 words)

	Whole Villages Gone - Giant Waves Crush Pacific Island
		The Polynesian island of Tikopia has been hit by massive 11 metre (36 feet) high waves which appear to have swept away entire villages and completely destroyed the lagoon around the island, experts said.
		An anthropologist who lived on Tikopia, Judith Macdonald, said that from the photographs she had seen, entire villages have disappeared.
		The photographs show wide sandy beaches around Tikopia but the island does not have beaches normally and Macdonald said she believed the fringing reef had been lifted up into the lagoon that was now full of sand and debris.
	www.rense.com /general33/wholevillagesgone.htm (620 words)

	Pacific Magazine: Whispers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As the world waited a week to find out what was happening, he agreed that had Tikopia been a ship with 2000 American tourists on board, it would have already been rescued.
		The amount Australia spent in the week of silence around Tikopia, unaware of whether its nearly 2000 people were in trouble or not: A$150,000.
		In a huff, they then sent a high-speed jet over Tikopia (after Mackley had landed and checked it all out) and said as far as they could tell from the comfort of the Falcon seats, everything was fine.
	www.pacificislands.cc /issue/2003/02/01/whispers (1226 words)

	CNN.com - Cyclone wrecks Pacific islands - Jan. 1, 2003
		Zoe battered the islands of Tikopia, Fataka and Anuta Sunday with winds exceeding 300 kilometers an hour (186 mph) and massive waves.
		"Tikopia Island would have been in the eyewall of Cyclone Zoe when it was at its peak strength," Mackley said.
		Tikopia, Anuta and Fataka are volcanic islands in the Santa Cruz group of the sprawling Solomons archipelago.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WEATHER/01/01/solomons.cyclone/index.html (644 words)

	CDNN :: Tikopia: A Study of Small Island Survival in the Solomon Islands
		TIKOPIA ISLAND, Solomon Islands (8 Jan 2003) -- Cyclone Zoe has focused world attention on the culture of the people of Tikopia - who belong to the Solomon Islands・small Polynesian minority.
		For generations the Tikopia have learned to live with the devastating impact of cyclones, and have managed to find refuge on different parts of the island to minimize loss of life.
		But other practices, such as abortion and infanticide, are also believed to be an integral part of traditional Tikopia society, where survival hinged on the ability to control population growth.
	www.cdnn.info /industry/i030108a/i030108a.html (1350 words)

	RSNZ/2002 Yearbook/Firth
		That year, he went to Tikopia, an island on a line due north of New Zealand and Vanuatu.
		Tikopia would seem to many people to be a stereotypical location for a field anthropologist, but what Firth did there broke moulds.
		Importantly, he was not in the business of building templates by which to measure people and their activities anywhere, irrespective of the size of their turf or their populations.
	www.rsnz.org /directory/yearbooks/year02/firth.php (1028 words)

	Solomon Islanders Suffer in Silence - Global Policy Forum - Nations and States
		Officials in the Solomon Islands spent the past week stressing that the islanders of Tikopia and Anuta are well used to storms of this sort and predicting that casualties would be minimal.
		While the outside world has had little idea of conditions on the island, the people of Tikopia have kept up to date with the speculation about their fate.
		But it brought the first medical supplies and water purification equipment to the island, alongside an assessment team to gauge the situation on Tikopia, and was followed by a larger supply boat this morning.
	www.globalpolicy.org /nations/micro/2003/0106solomon.htm (1162 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Rescuers head for second cyclone isle
		A patrol boat has left the Solomon Island of Tikopia for the island of Anuta, where damage and casualties will be assessed on Tuesday.
		All the islanders on Tikopia appear to have survived.
		"The two large villages on Tikopia don't have a sustainable water source, the health clinic has had to be re-stocked," she said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2630577.stm (684 words)

	Villages buried, island officials fear - theage.com.au
		Solomon Islands officials and former residents of the tiny Tikopia Island fear two villages have been buried under sand after massive waves bashed the island during last week's cyclone.
		The Solomon Islands high commissioner in Australia, Milner Tozaka, said former residents of Tikopia had examined RAAF surveillance pictures of the island and made the grim assessment.
		Planes cannot land on Tikopia or Anuta and the islands have no radio communication with Honiara or the outside world.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/03/1041566224791.html (536 words)

	Tikopia (Tikopia)
		The director Thomas Lien arrived at the Polynesian island Tikopia in the sixth sailing vessel in the last 15 years.
		This last traditional Polynesian island, hardly touched by modern civilization made a great impact, and Thomas made a long lasting friendship with John, the son of one of the chiefs.
		In 2003, Tikopia was hit by the strongest cyclone ever measured in the pacific.
	www.nfi.no /english/norwegianfilms/show.html?id=707 (321 words)

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