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2nd panel blasts GSA for parties, trips
April 17, 2012 | WTTG FOX 5 Washington, DC

Henderson celebrates Pacific Island culture
September 10, 2011 | KTNV Las Vegas, NV

All Blacks Begin Campaign to End 24-Year Cup Drought
September 09, 2011 | Bloomberg

Pacific Islands Wikipedia Information

The Pacific Ocean contains an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 islands (the exact number has yet to be precisely determined). Those islands lying south of the tropic of Cancer but excluding Australia are traditionally grouped into three divisions: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Inhabitants are sometimes referred to as Pacific Islanders. Pacific islands are also sometimes collectively...

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Scientists provide first large-scale estimate of reef shark losses in the Pacific Ocean
April 27, 2012
Curious gray reef sharks (Carcharhinus amlyrhynchos) at Kure Atoll in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Hawaii were studied as part of a study...

Pacific Islands Face Severe Water Threat, new report says
April 23, 2012
BANGKOK, April 23, 2012 - Climate change will exacerbate water stress in Pacific Islands, particularly small islands that rely on seasonal rain for their...

New Report Assesses Impact of Climate Change on Forest Diseases
April 09, 2012
ALBANY, Calif. April 9, 2012 - Climate change is projected to have far-reaching environmental impacts both domestically and abroad. A recently published report...

Nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands: "Nomads in their own country" – UN Expert
March 30, 2012
MAJURO/GENEVA, March 30, 2012 - United Nations Special Rapporteur Calin Georgescu warned Friday that the communities affected by nuclear testing over sixty years...

Another Vertebrate Species Reported Extinct from the Hawaiian Islands
March 22, 2012
A copper-striped blue-tailed skink (Emoia impar) photographed in Samoa during a USGS field survey. Location: Samoa Date Taken: 2010 Photographer: Chris Brown .....

Facing droughts, Pacific islands need urgent risk mitigation steps, UN warns
October 11, 2011
Oct 10, 2011 - Amid growing concerns about drought crises in some small island States of the Pacific, the United Nations today called for comprehensive risk...

From around the web

Submitted for your approval: Steeler names for this year's pledge class
May 20, 2012 | Behind the Steel Curtain
They call it Hawaiian Barbecue on the west coast and plate lunch all over the Pacific Islands. 5) Pledge Rainey: Zippy the Rain Man. With his speed, he can zip around the...

The Dutchstache
May 04, 2012 | Lone Star Ball
Cargo cults on remote Pacific Islands stopped seeking planes and started seeking Dutchstaches. Other Pacific Islanders proclaimed that John Frum would appear with a Dutchstache....

How did the early indigenous people of the pacific islands obtain fresh drinking...
February 29, 2012 | reddit.com: what's new online
I dont know much about these islands and I do not know how people actually ended up on them, but they have been populated for a long time, so how did the people on them find...

2nd panel blasts GSA for parties, trips, bonuses
April 17, 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area News -- -- SFGate
(04 - 17) 17: 06 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The main figure in a General Services Administration spending scandal took trips to Hawaii, Napa Valley and the South Pacific islands ...

Island Hopping, Kamikaze, No Prisoners: Images from the Pacific Islands and WW2 [...
September 25, 2011 | Gizmodo
The Japanese presented a tenacious, unrelenting foe to U.S. and Allied servicemen who battled with them during an island-hopping campaign across the Pacific. More>> ...

Lin- sanity: The chink in AAJA's armor
February 24, 2012 | michellemalkin.com
'' Asian America'' is itself a phony ethnic construct tying vastly different generations of immigrants, immigrant children, and grandchildren from across Asia and the Pacific Islands ...

Pacific Islands on twitter

	Oceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Hardcover): In aesthetic quality, signifi... http://t.co/ygepUO5y Twitter: @porthejlpro
	The eastern Pacific islands, yet many fishes range from the Pacific into. Twitter: @susonamasawu
	In Seattle, having lunch with a wonderful group from the Pacific Islands! Hoping for an invite to visit American Samoa ;) Twitter: @kimmytweets
	The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu (Pacific Islands Monograph Series): The Other Side is the fir... http://t.co/Nr1GGnDF Twitter: @OleHeathcote
	maitravelsite just shared his/her opinion on Snorkeling in Hanauma Bay, Hawaii (Video) http://t.co/NAKm8MfL What do YOU think? Twitter: @MaiTravelSite
	<Kyodonews> Japan, 3 Pacific islands' leaders agree to work for summit's success http://t.co/Mv65FgCd #Japon #japan Twitter: @tweetjapan