Petrography of the Pacific Islands

A Contribution to the Petrography of the South Sea Islands.

Pacific islands archaeology

The Pacific Islands, also known as Oceania, have been subdivided traditionally by anthropologists into three main geographic regions: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia (Fig. 1). Following Green (1991), prehistorians now stress the division between Near Oceania in the west (including the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands), and Remote Oceania (which includes all of island Melanesia ...

Spiders from some Pacific Islands

KNOWLEDGE OF THE SPIDERS of the Pacific is largely the result of the work of Berland (1934, et. seqq.). He has published a number of papers dealing with the spiders of the New Caledonian and New Hebridean region; of Samoa; and of the Marquesas, Society, and Austral groups, and other islands in the southeastern Pacific. Recently I have completed a study of the spiders of Western Samoa (not yet p...

Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency

Dengue surveillance in the Pacific Islands.

Adequate monitoring of dengue activity can be achieved using a combination of mosquito vector surveillance, fever surveillance, sentinel clinicians and laboratory screening. An apparent increase in fever cases or clinically suspected DF should prompt a careful clinical and laboratory investigation. If an outbreak of dengue is confirmed, health authorities will need to implement emergency commun...