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...ok is about the voyage to deliver a double-hulled sailing canoe thousands of miles as a gift to renowned wayfinding navigator Mau Piailug of Satawal, Micronesia. Native Hawaiians delivered the canoe to express their gratitude to Mau for sharing his knowledge of non- instrument navigation 30 years ago, reviving their sailing culture. Courtesy of Polynesian Voyaging Society ...
...Fiji; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Kiribati; Lao PDR; Malaysia; Marshall Islands; Micronesia, Fed. Sts.; Mongolia; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippi...
....82% Nationality: noun Kiribatian(s); adjec- tive Kiribati Ethnic divisions: Micronesian Religion: 48% Roman Catholic, 45% Protestant (Congregational)... ...e Solomon Islander Ethnic divisions: 93.0% Melanesian, 4.0% Polynesian, 1.5% Micronesian, 0.8% Euro- pean, 0.3% Chinese, 0.4% other Religion: almost a... ...he US as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The Federated States of Micronesia signed a Compact of Free Association with the US (effective 3 ... ...the US (effective 21 October 1986). Maps and data on the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands will be included in t...
... we had made them, that our friends were persons of station. I have said ‘usually taller and stronger.’ I might have been more abso- lute,—over all Po... ...es, when human oblation was made in the marae, the eyes of the victim were formally offered to the chief: a delicacy to the leading guest. All Melanes... ...Dennis Reid; and on a cer- tain bright June day in 1889, adorned in the Hawaiian fash- ion with the garlands of departure, we drew out of port and bor... ...egun to turn and stretch itself; it was still plunged in heat and silence. So much the more vivid was the impression that we car- ried away of the hou... ...Gilbertine would look her best, that must be her costume. In that and naked otherwise, she moves with an incompa- rable liberty and grace and life, th... ...no measure to preserve, and the man is typical of a class of ruffians that once disgraced the whole field of the South Seas, and still linger in the r... ...d isles of Micronesia. He had the name on the beach of ‘a perfect gentleman when sober,’ but I never saw him otherwise than drunk. The few shocking an...