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OCEANIA SNAPSHOTS

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From sunrise to sunset, the islands of Oceania show incredible contrast from small coral atolls to towering mountains. They provide an incredible array of visual images some of which are reproduced below:

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Sunrise at Funafuti, Tuvalu.

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Lunchtime at Kaibola Beach, Trobriand Islands.

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A spectacular crash in the opening lap
of the 2000 Gold Coast Indy Race, Australia. 

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Sailing in the Solomon Islands.

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Outside the Co-operative Store,Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.

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Apia, Western Samoa. This Samoan fale is a family house built in the traditional
manner except that corrugated iron has been used for the roof instead of thatch.

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Paradise Beach, on Upolu Island, Western Samoa. This beach was used
as the location for the 1952 film Return to Paradise, starring Gary Cooper.
 

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Waimea Canyon on the Island of Kaua'i is
Hawaii's answer to the Grand Canyon.

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Early photographs of attractive Samoan ladies.

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Longboat race in Pago Pago Harbour, American Samoa.

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Fanning Island (Tabuaeran), Line Islands, Republic of Kiribati.

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Sailing at New Caledonia.

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Kiribati dancers at Millennium Island,
welcoming the dawn of the new millennium.

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Tahiti has been French for more than a century and much of the traditional culture has been lost.
Until recently, Tahitian children were forbidden to speak their native language at school, and they were
taught only French history and nothing of their own cultural background. The coronation pageant above
is a brave attempt by a handful of Tahitians to remedy this deplorable situation and restore to the people
a sense of their true Polynesian identity.

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Children of Pohnpei (Ponape), Federated States of Micronesia.

   

   

In Hawaii, the missionaries did their best to destroy the native culture and,
in particular, the "lewd and lascivious hula".
But they wrote detailed accounts of the dances in their diaries, and these, ironically, have
provided a basis for the current revival of the ancient hula seen in the four images above.

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Nan Madol off the Coast of Pohnpei (Ponape), Micronesia is a ceremonial centre
constructed of basalt prisms on artificial platforms raised in a shallow lagoon.

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An American tank which never quite made it to the shore
in the 1944 invasion of Saipan.

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Vaitape on Bora Bora, Tahiti, and Mount Pahia rearing up behind it to a height of 23,000 feet. Bora Bora was once a place of exile populated by the outcasts of Tahitian society.

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Native girl, Papua New Guinea.

 

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Sunset at Moorea, Tahiti.

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Oceania Postcards and Picture Galleries

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(E-mail: jane@janeresture.com -- Rev. 12th October 2002)