Mining, risk and climate resilience in the ‘other’ Pacific: Latin American lessons for the South Pacific

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Bebbington ◽  
Jeffrey Bury ◽  
Nicholas Cuba ◽  
John Rogan
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
Climate Resilience

Land tenure and urban climate resilience in the South Pacific

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darryn McEvoy ◽  
David Mitchell ◽  
Alexei Trundle
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Climate Resilience

Rev. John Burton frames the Fiji Methodist Mission, 1924

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Weir
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Indian Mission ◽  
General Secretary

In his role as General Secretary of the Australasian Methodist Missionary Society in the 1920s and 1930s, Reverend John W. Burton travelled each winter to one of the ‘mission fields’ in the South Pacific to inspect the mission’s activities, and to encourage and advise. Accompanying him was his camera; Burton had long been an enthusiastic photographer. Following his 1924 visit to Fiji he created two albums of his photographs, one illustrating the indigenous Fijian mission, the other the Indian mission. This article focuses on the ‘social biography’ of the photographs, and examines Burton’s choice and balance of subjects in each album, which cover educational and other mission activities, village and town scenes, landscapes and individual and group portraits. It also considers the placement and message in context of many of the individual photographs when they were later reproduced to illustrate stories in the mission magazine, Missionary Review, of which Burton was the Editor.

scholarly journals Iguanas of the South Pacific

Oryx ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
Red Data Book ◽  
Data Book

Two species of iguana inhabit the islands of the Fiji goup: one, the crested iguana, was discovered as recently as 1979 and the other, the banded iguana, once common enough to be an important source of food for humans, is now listed in the IUCN Red Data Book. The author, in his three-year study, discovered that both species still exist in relatively dense populations on a few, small uninhabited islands, although they have disappeared from those that are developed. He discusses the threats to their survival and the conservation efforts being made.

South Pacific Commission

1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-663 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conference Proceedings ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Welfare ◽  
The South ◽  
Vice Chairman ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Britain

The fourth South Pacific Conference was held at Rabaul, New Britain, in the territory of Papua and New Guinea, from April 20 to May 13, 1959. Sixty-five delegates and advisers attended from sixteen Pacific territories and the Kingdom of Tonga. The Conference was divided into two standing committees, one dealing with social and health questions, and the other with matters affecting the economic welfare of the island peoples. For the second time in the history of the conferences, the delegates themselves elected the chairman and vice-chairman of each committee, but for the first time a woman was elected chairman of one of them, i.e., the social committee. The Conference proceedings were governed by a general committee, on which each of the six governments forming the membership of the South Pacific Commission was represented by a member of a territorial delegation; the chairman of the Conference, Mr. J. R. Halligan, Australia's Senior Commissioner on the South Pacific Commission, was the only European member of the general committee.

South Pacific Commission

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-482
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
Work Program ◽  
The Pacific

From April 28 to May 7, 1952 the ninth session of the South Pacific Commission was held in Noumea, New Caledonia.1 The session, which was primarily concerned with administrative matters, was under the chairmanship of N. A. J. de Voogd (Netherlands). As a result of agreement by member governments at the eighth session to include Guam and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands within the scope of the Commission, at the ninth session it was agreed unanimously to extend Commission activities to embrace these territories. Assurances of cooperation in Commission activities were given on behalf of both territories by the Acting Senior Commissioner for the United States (Leebrick) and the Secretary of Guam (Herman). Special aspects of its work program were reviewed by the Commission. The printing of two project reports dealing with the area was authorized: one, on economic development of coral atolls covered a survey made for the Commission in 1951 in the Gilbert Islands and the other was concerned with the possibilities of expanding the cacao industry in the area.

The Repatriation of Surrendered Japanese Troops, 1945–1947

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Rotem Kowner
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The Other ◽  
Aleutian Islands ◽  
New Order ◽  
The South ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Dutch East Indies

At the end of the war, Imperial Japan’s vast armies stretched from Manchuria to Korea, from the Aleutian Islands to the South Pacific. Surrender was not an end in itself. It was for 3.5 million soldiers only a beginning. In this chapter Rotem Kowner examines the repatriation of demobilized Japanese soldiers in a transnational key, focusing on how the process of soldiers return became enmeshed in the wars of decolonization, restoration of imperial power, and the early Cold War. From Java to French Indochine, Kowner examines how Japanese soldiers, once the frontlines of an ideology of pan-Asianism, became auxiliaries in the restoration of European imperial control. In the Dutch East Indies he shows how Japanese soldiers both aided the return of the Dutch forces; and on the other armed anticolonial nationalists. How did the men who fought for the creation of a New Order greet the wars end? By connecting the experience of repatriation to the wars of decolonization and hardening Cold War divisions, Kowner sheds light on an important part of the unwinding of Japan’s wartime imperium.

XXIII.—The Expedition to the South Pacific of the S.Y. “St. George.” Marine Ecology and Coral Formations in the Panama Region, the Galapagos and Marquesas Islands, and the Atoll of Napuka

1927 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Crossland
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
Marine Ecology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Marquesas Islands ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Considerable Size

Two contrasted oceanographical regions are dealt with in this paper, the fauna of the eastern Pacific being distinct from that of the Marquesas, which are the farthest outliers of the western ocean. In each of these two regions again are two divisions of markedly different ecology, physical conditions in the Galapagos being as great a contrast as could well be to those of the coast of Panama, while the Marquesas Islands differ from their neighbours farther west, which are either atolls, or high islands surrounded by broad reefs, in being without coral deposits of any considerable size, and certainly no true reefs. The corals afford a striking example of the contrast between the two main regions; in Panama the only abundant coral is Pocillopora, in the Marquesas the only “reef” is of Porites, and the other deposits depend upon this genus for their existence. Several species of Pocillopora are abundant in the Marquesas, but are all distinct from those of Panama.

The Invention of an Opera House: The 1844 Teatro Victoria in Valparaiso, Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
José Manuel Izquierdo König
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Andean Region ◽  
Italian Opera ◽  
Italian Culture ◽  
American Research ◽  
Opera House ◽  
Opera Houses ◽  
The Way

Abstract The 1844 Teatro Victoria in Valparaiso, Chile, can be considered the first purpose-built opera house in the Andean region of the Americas. Managed by impresario Pietro Alessandri, it became the centre of an early operatic scene in the South Pacific and a model for theatres built during the following decades. In this article, I discuss the Teatro Victoria as an opera house and the way in which it functioned on the borders of what was then a new global operatic scene. Latin American research on opera has focused mostly on singers and performances, rather than on the workings of the opera houses and the operatic scene. This article discusses the rationale behind the development of the Teatro Victoria project, some of the strategies underpinning its success and the notion of this particular opera house as a projection of certain ideas of ‘Italian culture’ and networks. The article shows, first, that the successful reception and appropriation of Italian opera in this period was not necessarily guaranteed, and it differed across the Americas. Second, that local brokers and host communities had key roles in shaping that reception, which can easily be perceived as a passive one when looked at only from the perspective of the singers or the music itself.

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