THE PACIFIC ISLANDS ON WORLD WIDE WEB: NEW SITES
The Centre for Pacific Studies has now its own URL. You can access the World Wide Web pages of the Centre for Pacific Studies at:
The Oceania Newsletter, until recently only available in ASCII-format from LISTSERV, is now included in the CPS WWW-pages. The HTML of the Oceania Newsletter is:
http://www.kun.nl/cps/cpsindex.html
The following Pacific-oriented URL's are recommended:
Michael R. Ogden (ogden@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu), University of Hawaii, publishes a WWW document which provides a comprehensive register of Internet resources dealing with the Pacific Islands:
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/con/com/fac/ogden/ogden-pacific.html
This URL includes the following table of contents:
General Information
(book lists, document collections & institutions):
Book Bin - Pacifica (book dealer, Corvallis, OR, USA)
Books Pasifika (book dealer, Auckland, NZ)
Center for Pacific Islands Studies (gopher: Univ. of Hawaii, USA)
CoL: Pacific Region (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver)
Documents from Melanesia, Polynesia & the Pacific (FWDP, USA)
Microstate Resources (M. Leventhal, Chicago, USA)
Pacific Studies Facility (gopher: A.N.U., Australia)
Search the "ANU-Pacific-Islands-L" database (gopher search the database)
Search the "ANU-Theses-Abstracts" database (gopher search the database)
Pacific Regional Educational Laboratory (Hawaii, USA)
Pactok (low-cost email network for Asia-Pacific NGOs)
Pacific Sustainable Development Network (part of the global SDN, hosted by Pactok)
Pacific SDN Pactok Sites (email addresses for Fiji, Vanuatu & Western Samoa)
PeaceSat (Uni. of Hawaii, USA)
Pacific Islands Sites (contact info. for PeaceSat)
Polynesian Voyaging Society
PVS Gopherspace (gopher: NIC, Hawaii, USA)
Polynesian Cultural Center (BYU, Laie, Hawaii, USA)
Small Islands Information Network (P. Meincke, Canada)
South Pacific Forum
Forum Secretariat
25th Forum Communiqué (1994) (Brisbane, Aust.)
SPF News, Brisbane 1994 (summaries of 25th SPF meeting)
South Pacific Organisations Coordinating Committee (SPOCC) Membership
South Seas BUBL (online info. server, Victoria Uni., New Zealand)
UN Global Conference on Sustainable Development of Small Island States
ClariNet: Oceania (usenet news service)
Oceania (satellite images, maps & physical features)
Satellite Images of the Earth (the Pacific area) (satellite JPEG images from GMS-4!)
Map of Oceania (262K jpeg)
Maps of Islands, Oceans & Poles (Perry-Casta=F1eda Library, U. Texas, Austin, USA)
Oceania (general info. provided by City.Net!)
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA, USA)
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Rim Biodiversity Catalog (including Aust, NZ, PNG, & Cent. Pacific, UC Berkeley, USA)
Current Weather Outlook (courtesy of UHM Metrology, USA)
Eastern Pacific
Central Pacific
Western Pacific
Australia (list provided by City.Net!)
Human Rights Practices, 1993
Aust. Foreign Policy on Pacific Islands
(M. Costello, Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade)
New Zealand (list provided by City.Net!)
Human Rights Practices, 1993
The Pacific Islands
(For purposes of clarity, grouped by geographic region)
Micronesia
Guam
PREL profile (Pac. Reg. Ed. Lab., Hawaii, USA)
Kiribati
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
- Political overview
Marshall Islands, Republic of the
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
- Political overview
PREL profile (Pac. Reg. Ed. Lab., Hawaii, USA)
Micronesia, Federated States of
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
- Political overview
-- Chuuk State (Pac. Reg. Ed. Lab., Hawaii, USA)
-- Kosrae State (Pac. Reg. Ed. Lab., Hawaii, USA)
-- Pohnpei State (Pac. Reg. Ed. Lab., Hawaii, USA)
-- Yap State (Pac. Reg. Ed. Lab., Hawaii, USA)
Nauru, Republic of
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
- Political overview
Northern Mariana Islands, Commonwealth of
PREL profile (Pac. Reg. Ed. Lab., Hawaii, USA)
Palau, Republic of (formerly, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands)
PREL profile (Pac. Reg. Ed. Lab., Hawaii, USA)
Melanesia
Fiji, Republic of
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
- Political overview
Fijian Oral Traditions
- (Bibliography, M. Tuimaleali'ifano, UNESCO)
University of the South Pacific (courtesy of USP!)
New Caledonia (a French Overseas Territory)
Papua New Guinea
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
PNG Research Info. Resource (gopher: ANU, Aust.)
PNG Forests Archive (ftp: IES, Wisconsin, USA)
Rabaul Caldera
- (info. concerning volcanic activity at Rabaul, PNG)
The New Guinea Sculpture Garden
- (New Guinea Art at Stanford University, USA)
Solomon Islands
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
- Political overview
Vanuatu
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
- Political overview
Pictures & Personal Perspective (K. Buluk, ClarkNet)
Polynesia
Cook Islands
Making Traditions in the Cook Is.
- (CSAC, Uni. of Kent, Canterbury, UK)
Easter Island (map, jpeg 156k)
French Polynesia (a French Overseas Territory)
Hawaii (my own collection of URLs!)
PREL profile (Pac. Reg. Ed. Lab., Hawaii, USA)
Current positions of the voyaging canoes Hawai'iloa,
- Hokulea'a, and Makali'i
Volcano Observatory
Niue
Pitcairn (dependent territory, UK)
Samoa, American
PREL profile (Pac. Reg. Ed. Lab., Hawaii, USA)
Samoa Observatory
- (meteorological monitoring program, NOAA, USA)
Samoa, Western
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
- Political overview
Tokelau
Tonga, Kingdom of
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
- Political overview
Tuvalu
- Human Rights Practices, 1993
Political overview
Wallis & Futuna (a French Overseas Territory)
AID/WATCH:
http://www.pegasus.oz.au/%7Etoysatellite/aidwatch/
This site includes, as a recent issue "PNG says no to World Bank and International Monetary Fund"; see:
http://www.pegasus.oz.au/~toysatellite/aidwatch/issues/png/pngno.htm
ASIA NOW ONLINE
Asia Now, the weekly PBS news series covering 25 countries in the Asia-Pacific region launched its home page ASIA NOW ONLINE on the World Wide Web. ASIA NOW ONLINE features quicktime video clips from recently broadcast Asia Now stories, educational resources on the Asia-Pacific region, the program's broadcast schedule and transcripts from recent shows and announcements of upcoming stories. Current online features include a story on U.S. nuclear testing on human beings in the Pacific Islands; the role of dance in Bali and a little known ancient language in China. Asia Now is a joint production of KHET/Honolulu, KCTS/Seattle and NHK/Tokyo. ASIA NOW ONLINE can be found at:
The AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND STUDIES CENTER at Pennsylvania State University in the USA maintains a major World-Wide-Web site:
http://www.psu.edu/research/anzsc/
This site is provided by the Australia New Zealand Studies Center and the Pennsylvania State University as a service to the academic community. The objective is the further development of interdisciplinary study and understanding of Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. It is a premier location on the internet for academic and general information related to Oceania as well as Australia and New Zealand and is listed by major government, university, commercial and private sites around the world. This award-winning site has been called "The mother of all antipodean pages" by the Australia-New Zealand Club at Oxford University. Its pages are consulted over one hundred times a day.
Information includes a complete listing of, and links to, all related Studies Centers and Associations throughout the world which have a presence on the internet. There is also a page of links to sites related to each of the Pacific Countries and Territories. The site is maintained on a daily basis and there are plans for additional expansion of the Oceania sections. The type of items which may be appropriate include:
A new web site to serve those interested in COGNITION, BEHAVIOUR, HEALTH AND EDUCATION:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/index.html
THE CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC ISLANDS PRESS can be found on the World Wide Web under a new monniker, The CocoNET Wireless, at http://www.uq.oz.au/jrn/home.html
COOMBSWEB (A.N.U. SOCIAL SCIENCES SERVER):
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombsHome.html
The Coombsweb is a specialist World Wide Web server established 25 January 1994 by Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra. It publishes on-line research materials originating from the ANU's Research Schools of Social Sciences and Pacific & Asian Studies, as well as keeps track of social sciences, humanities and Asian Studies Internet resources world-wide. The Coombsweb site is accessed more than 30,000 times a week (which is, on average, one access every 20 seconds). Since the start of its operations eighteen months ago the Coombsweb site has been accessed more than 1,000,000 times.
The FIELD MUSEUM'S (CHICAGO) NEW GUINEA RESEARCH PROGRAM is now available on the Internet at:
http://rs6000.bvis.uic.edu:80/museum/science/Science:html (click on Gopher and go to the Department of Anthropology).
FIJI & TONGA HOME PAGE:
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~minibbjd/fiji+tonga.html
HAWAII HOME PAGE:
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN STUDIES:
The MAORI LAW REVIEW, a monthly review of law affecting the New Zealand Maori is now available (this site contains back issues of the Review from December 1993 to Jan-Feb 1995, and will be regularly updated):
http://charm.wcc.govt.nz/extern/bennion/mlr_home.htm
MICROSTATE RESOURCES has grown into one of the largest Web sites for information pertaining to very small countries (includes Asia & Pacific pages):
http://www.microstate.com/pub/micros
Microstate includes TONGA ONLINE & KAVA BOWL (see below).
NATION OF HAWAII HOME PAGE:
http://hawaii-nation.org/nation/
A subject guide to internet-accessible information about NEW ZEALAND (includes an alphabetical list of WWW home-pages on servers within New Zealand):
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/libr/nz/
PACIFIC ISLAND PEOPLES (Lareau Web Parlour; includes:
Pitcairn Island Home Page, 1787 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty):
http://wavefront.wavefront.com/~pjlareau/pacific1.html
PACIFIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATION on the Web (via Bishop Museum's web pages):
http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/psa/psa.shtml
Details of the VIII PACIFIC SCIENCE INTERCONGRESS, to be held at the Univ. of the South Pacific in July 1997, can be accessed on site:
PASIFIKA PRESS:
http://ak.planet.co.nz/pasifika
SMALL ISLANDS INFORMATION NETWORK:
TONGA ONLINE, the Kingdom of Tonga in Cyberspace, designed by the Tongan Taholo Kami, and planning to be a major clearing house for all information relevant to that country:
http://www.microstate.com/pub/micros/tonga/
Tonga Online includes a new interactive messaging area, THE KAVA BOWL, also designed by Taholo Kami, which is intended to be a forum for South Pacific discussion:
http://www.microstate.com/pub/micros/tonga/msg/msgs.html
Please visit, sit around the bowl and taste the Kava!