An Islander is a person of the ocean who always has one foot in the water and the other on the land. The sea is like a tonic without which the Islanders cannot live happily - the sea is their life.
The sea gives them their food and their tools are their canoes.
Like their forefathers of old, the present day fishermen are skilled navigators and canoe builders who are addicted to the sea. They understand the moods of the sea; they are familiar with the stars and the sun, and they breathe inspiration from the prevailing trade winds.
They are adventurous people who, like the seabirds, have the instinct to migrate in their blood.
Their houses are a reflection of the pandanus and coconut trees from which they are constructed. The lifestyle is quite simple and in harmony with nature, living off the land and the sea.
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Island life may seem on the surface to be very idyllic but, in fact, our very existence is often very precarious. So many island communities live on small coral outcrops, often only a little above sea level. These outcrops can be very easily overtaken by the sea, however, despite all this, these atolls are our home and are inhabited by people with a great love for life. We are affectionate and friendly people who love laughing.
I have also included some rare information on the amazing life of Alfred Restieaux who was the first significant European trader on the islands of Tuvalu, and in particular Nukufetau and Funafuti, who had the foresight to document his experiences. His extensive memoirs of mid to late nineteenth century life on the islands of Oceania provide a unique insight of the life of a trader during this time. These memoirs are recorded on microfilm and are held at the New Zealand National (Alexander Turnbull) Library, Wellington, New Zealand as well as other major museums, archives and libraries in Oceania. They have provided an invaluable source of information to researchers interested in life in the South Seas during this time.
While on Nukufetau, Tuvalu, Alfred Restieaux and his wife Litia (Tuvaluan) played host to Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife while they were en route from Auckland, New Zealand to Kiribati. The complete life of Alfred Restieaux, including his noble French background and his years in early colonial Australia, South America, North America, Honolulu, and the islands of Oceania, is shortly to be published. There are also Links to the Alfred Restieaux manuscripts along with a short history of Alfred Restieaux's life (below).
Welcome everybody to our Pacific Islands Radio Stations for your free listening to our Pacific Island music 24 hours daily! Wherever you may be, please make yourself feel at home, sit back, relax, and enjoy listening to the soothing, melodious, beautiful and exciting sounds of the Pacific. Music fulfills a need to communicate. It gives expression to thoughts, ideas, beliefs and moods. It connects us with our past and in doing so it arouses feelings of joy, sorrow, excitement and serenity. Music is a language that reminds us of memorable moments in our lives. Let us hope that we all experience these wonderful things and much more in our Pacific Island music.
The music played on Pacific Islands Radio has authentic examples of both the contemporary and traditional forms of island music from the low atolls like Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Tokelau and Tuvalu to the volcanic peaks of islands like Samoa, Tahiti and Hawai'i as well as the mountain ranges of New Zealand, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji along with Tonga, the Federated States of Micronesia (Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk and Yap), Guam, Saipan and Palau. More music from the Caroline Islands, The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as well as the Republic of Nauru will be added to the Playlists as soon as it is available.
The music featured on Pacific Islands Radio 32 kbps (FM mp3PRO Stereo), 33K (24 kbps) and 28K (16 kbps) as well as Micronesia Music Radio 33K (24 kbps) comprises traditional chants of our ancestors and mythology, gospel music, as well as the day-to-day music, including songs about the beauty of the sunrise, the sunset, the people and the islands, not to mention the uniquely beautiful love songs with their haunting lyrics and melodies.
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Post Message on Message Board | Read Messages on Message Board | |||
Australia - A Convict's Journey | Indonesia-Traditional Javanese Wedding | |||
New Zealand - A Brief History | Rotorua (New Zealand) Visit | |||
Melanesia Mission | Niue (Savage Island)-Brief History | |||
Solomon Islands - Savo History | Vanuatu - Tanna History | |||
Cook Islands Music (See Rarotonga) | Kiribati Cultural Traditions | |||
Australia - A Short History | About Nan Madol, Pohnpei | |||
Polynesia Chiefs-Rulers and Ruled | Rarotonga-Cook Islands-History | |||
Tahiti Visit- In The Strange South Seas | Ra'ivavae, Tahiti - A Short History | |||
Samoa Visit- In The Strange South Seas | Tonga Visit - In The Strange South Seas | |||
About Bully Hayes-The Final Years | Polynesia - Planters and Products | |||
Christmas Island Bomb Tests | Christmas Is. Nuclear Tests- Extract from Book | |||
Oceania Origins | Melanesia Origins 1 (See Melanesia Origins below) | |||
Kiribati - Aspects of Banaba History | Tahiti History | |||
Kiribati - Bully Hayes, Line Islands | Kiribati - Banaba Phosphate Picture Gallery | |||
Micronesia - Mariana Islands | Hawaii - Aspects of History | |||
Nauru - Phosphate Picture Gallery | Oceania Photographs-World War II | |||
Our Samoan Adventure-RLS and wife Fanny | Solomon Islands. - The Malaita Massacre | |||
Oceania Mythology - Australia | Melanesia Postcards | |||
Aspects of Micronesia | Aspects of Easter Island | |||
Kiribati - Living at Cantom Island | Canton Island: Aerial Crossroads of the Sth. Pacific | |||
Indonesia - History and Early Culture | Papua New Guinea-Rabaul Volc. Eruption 1937 | |||
Kiribati - Bue The Ancestor | Kiribati-Origin & Culture, Language, etc. | |||
Kiribati-Recollections of Fr Sabatier (Book Extract) | The Battle of Midway | |||
Oceania Genealogy | Kiribati Canoe | |||
Oceania Travel | Oceania Travel - Australia | |||
Suvarov - Extract from An Island To Oneself | Extract from Bill Corley's South Sea Book | |||
Tuvalu - World War 2 Images of Nanumea | Tuvalu: World War II Images of Nanumea | |||
Captain Bligh The Artist | Galapagos - Iguanas | |||
The Polynesian Triangle | Oceania - The Northwest & The Eastern Atoll | |||
Tuvalu - Memories of Funafuti | Kiribati - Trials of the Banabans | |||
Fiji Bure | Cooks Islands - Economics of Culture | |||
Oceania and Global Warming (Causes & Effects) | Tahiti Postcards | |||
Kiribati - Guardians of the Gilberts | Tuvalu Visit | |||
Captain William Bligh The Artist | Polynesian Girls Gallery | |||
Oceania - Painting the Islands Vermilion | Canton Island, Phoenix Group, Kiribati | |||
Tuvalu Islands Online | Christmas (Kiritimati) Island Visit Pictures | |||
Papua New Guinea -Trobriand Is. - Adolescence | Trobriand Islands Online | |||
PNG-Trobriand Is. -Sex in Folklore-Myths and Legends | Solomon Islands - Red Beach, Guadalcanal | |||
Tuvalu: Paradise Islands of Polynesia | Tuvalu Is. Myths & Legends | |||
Jane Resture's Oceania Page | Jane's Oceania Travel Page | |||
Oceania and Global Warming | Guam Postcards and Picture Galleries | |||
Samoa - Origin, People, Navigators, Language... | New Zealand - Some Maori Legends | |||
Samoa - Games and Sports | Samoa - Fine Mats | |||
Marshall Is. - Rongelap Revisited (Operation Bravo) | Cook Islands and the Blackbirders | |||
Papua New Guinea - The Gimi People | Samoa Marriages | |||
Cook Islands Legends | Samoa - Some Legends of Samoa | |||
Samoa - Religion | World War II Memoirs of George A. DeLong | |||
Samoa - A Short Chronological History | Polynesian Triangle | |||
Marshall Islands Postcards and Picture Galleries | Focus on Nauru | |||
PNG - Trobriand Is. - Psychology of Love | Fiji - A Fiji Visit | |||
Oceania - Timor Early Ethnology and Mythology | Tonga - The Lost City of Mu'a | |||
Melanesia Origins | Oceania - David Lewis, Navigator | |||
Oceania - Prehistoric Architecture | Tonga - A Doctor In Paradise | |||
Kiribati Schools | Hawaii - Kaua'i Mythical Menehune | |||
Hawaii - The Recollections of John Nicol | Guam Historical Postcards 3 | |||
Kiribati - A Doctor's Recollections | Tuvalu - Early Impressions of Funafuti | |||
Kiribati - Historical Tarawa | Solomon Islands - A Doctor In Paradise | |||
The Battle of the Coral Sea | Hawaii - Recollections, 1851 | |||
Samoa - Traditional Village | Hawaii - Hawaiian Hula | |||
Irian Jaya-Asmat Tribal Art | Papua New Guinea-Sepik Tribal Art | |||
Oceania-The Final Voyages of Robert Louis Stevenson | Oceania Portraits-The Robert L. Stevenson Collection | |||
Kiribati - A Nuclear Test Veteran Remembers | Oceania - Nuclear Testing | |||
Oceania - The WW2 Memoirs of John Vollinger | Kiribati - WW2 Images of Abemama People | |||
Tahiti - The Black Pearls of Tahiti | Hawaii - The Vanishing Species | |||
Samoa - Recollections of an Early Visitor | Hawaii - Recollections of an Early Visitor | |||
Solomon Islands - About Tikopia | Solomon Islands - The Miracle of Tikopia | |||
Kiribati Canoe | The Canoes of Oceania | |||
Oceania: Captain James Cook - The First Voyage | Hawaii: The Story of Pearl Harbour | |||
Oceania: Captain James Cook - The Second Voyage | Papua Historical: Early Images of Irian Jaya | |||
Oceania: Captain James Cook - The Last Voyage | Tuvalu: A Visitor's Introduction to Tuvalu | |||
Oceania: The Navigators of Oceania | Tonga: Recollections of an Early Visitor to Tonga | |||
Micronesian Stick Charts | Restieaux: Stories about Bully Hayes and Others | |||
Norfolk Island: A Short History | Norfolk Island Postcards | |||
Palau Storyboard and other Legends | A Short History of Fiji | |||
Hawaii - The Story of King Kamehameha I | The Second Recruiting Voyage of the Carl | |||
Cook Islands: Penrhyn Visit | Tuvalu: World War II Images of Nanumea | |||
Irian Jaya: Tribal Art | Vanuatu Postcards and Picture Galleries | |||
Galapagos Undersea | Polynesia: The Trail of Plants and Animals | |||
Kiribati Traditional Music | Easter Island Music | |||
Micronesia Music | Marshall Islands Mythology | |||
Oceania Home Pages (on green background) |
Oceania Home Pages (on green background) | |||
Australia Home Page | Timor Home Page | |||
About Banaba - Kiribati | Oceania Postcards and Picture Galleries | |||
Jane's Solomon Islands Home Page | ||||
Jane's Tuvalu Home Page | ||||
Jane's Samoa Home Page | Solomon Islands | |||
Lord Howe Island | Saipan | |||
Easter Island Home Page | Norfolk Island | |||
Tuvaluan Genealogy | Wallis and Futuna Islands | |||
Polynesian Mythology | ||||
Oceania Ethnology | Melanesian Ethnology | |||
Polynesian Ethnology | Micronesian Ethnology | |||
Melanesian Mythology | Papua New Guinea Home Page & Short History | |||
Line Islands: Republic of Kiribati | Phoenix Group: Republic of Kiribati | |||
New Caledonia Postcards and Picture Galleries | Jane's Tokelau Islands Home Page | |||
Islands of the Hawaiian Chain | Oceania Mythology Home Page | |||
Pacific Islands Radio Stations | Mythology of Oceania | |||
Jane's New Zealand Home Page | Cook Islands Home Page | |||
Jane's Hawaii Home Page | Jane's Polynesia Home Page | |||
Irian Jaya - Melanesian Culture | Jane's Micronesia Home Page | |||
Tuvalu 2000: Contemp. Images (incl. Tuvalu 2002) | Jane's Melanesia Home Page | |||
Jane's Fiji Home Page | Pitcairn Island | |||
Tonga Home Page | Vanuatu Home Page | |||
Jane's Tahiti Home Page | Guam | |||
New Caledonia Home Page | Republic of Palau | |||
Republic of the Marshall Islands | Niue | |||
The Federal States of Micronesia | The Galapagos Islands | |||
Aspects of Oceania - Jane's Oceania Page | A Brief History of the Chamorro | |||
Christmas (Kiritimati) Island | Christmas Island Bomb Tests | |||
Coastwatchers, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands | Papua New Guinea Coastwatchers | |||
Fiji Mythology | Oceania Languages | |||
Samoa Music | Papua New Guinea, Trobriand Islands Magic | |||
Oceania Kava Ceremonies | Bougainville | |||
Aspects of Global Warming | Niihau | |||
Easter Island Mythology | Polynesian Mythology Tahiti | |||
Polynesian Mythology Hawaii | Maori Mythology | |||
Solomon Islands Ethnology | Fiji Ethnology | |||
Women of Oceania | Central Pacific Islands | |||
Trobriand Is. : Status of Women | Tuvalu: Motufoua Memorial Service | |||
Samoa: The Heart of Polynesia | Polynesia: About the Marquesas Islands | |||
Fiji Images | Vanuatu Ethnology | |||
Papua New Guinea Tribal Art | Vanuatu Mythology | |||
Solomon Islands Mythology | Papua New Guinea Mythology | |||
Aspects of Easter Island | Kiribati Astronomy and Navigation | |||
Further Kiribati Traditions | Kiribati: Food of the Navigator | |||
Canoes of the Kiribati Islands | Kiribati Education Policy | |||
Kiribati: New Parliament House | Kiribati President Tito's UN Speech | |||
Tuvalu - Robert Louis Stevenson | Nukufetau, Tuvalu | |||
Christmas Island History: Kiribati | Palmyra | |||
The Northern Equatorial Islands | Palmyra Island Naval Air Station August, 1943 | |||
A Tuvalu Wordsearch Puzzle | Tahiti Picture Gallery | |||
French Polynesia (Tahiti) Images | Necker Island | |||
Atafu Island: Tokelau | Nukunonu Island: Tokelau | |||
Fakaofu Island: Tokelau | Swains Island | |||
Midway Islands | Johnston Island | |||
Baker Island | Palmerston Island | |||
Howland Island | Jarvis Island | |||
Laysan Island | Nassau Island | |||
Manihiki Island | Wake Island | |||
Rose Island | Pukapuka Island | |||
Rakahanga Island | Kaula Island | |||
Tongareva Island | Kure Island | |||
Lisianski Island | Suvarov Island | |||
French Frigate Shoal | Kingman Reef | |||
Pearl & Hermes Reef | Gardner Pinnacles | |||
Samoa Historical Images | Nihoa Island | |||
Samoa Postcards | Oceania Portraits | |||
Reflections on the War in the Pacific | Oceania Postcards 11 | |||
Tuvalu-The Rescue of Rickenbacker | Postcards from Samoa | |||
About Tuvalu | Tuvalu and the Hurricanes | |||
Tuvalu And World War 2 | Kiribati - Fishing | |||
Tuvalu Telephone Directory | About Tuvalu History | |||
The Kanakas and the Cane Fields | Easter Island and the Blackbirders | |||
Easter Island | Micronesia -Nan Madol | |||
Kiribati Traditions | The Voyages of the Southern Cross | |||
Kiribati Migration | Kiribati Genealogy | |||
Kiribati History: The Davis Diaries | Tuvalu History: The Davis Diaries | |||
Marshall Is. History: The Davis Diaries | Tuvalu and the Blackbirders | |||
A Short Pictorial History of Samoa | Tokelau: Depopulating the Tokelaus | |||
The Spirit of Melanesia | Cook Islands Travel & Accomodation Guide | |||
New Zealand South Island | New Zealand North Island | |||
Arorae Navigation Stones | Oceania Picture Gallery | |||
Hawaii - Big Island | Oceania: Historical Images | |||
Hawaii | O'ahu - Hawaii Islands | |||
Maui - Hawaii Islands | Kaua'i - Hawaii Islands | |||
Moloka'i - Hawaii Islands | Lana'i - Hawaii Islands | |||
O'ahu Accom. & Travel Guide | Maui - Accom. & Travel Guide | |||
Lana'i - Accom. & Travel Guide | Moloka'i - Accom. & Travel Guide | |||
Kaua'i Accom. & Travel Guide | Hawaii Big Is. Acc. & Travel Guide | |||
Hawaii Picture Gallery | Hawaii: Kaua'i Images | |||
Hawaii - Niihau | Trobriand Islands Mythology | |||
Hawaii - Historical Images | Vanuatu - Historical Images | |||
Polynesia Historical Images | Polynesia Historical Images Part 2 | |||
Kiribati Images | Immaculate Heart College: Kiribati | |||
Tuvalu - People on the Reef | Postcards from Micronesia | |||
Marshall Is. Travel & Accommodation Guide | Torres Strait Islands | |||
Palau Travel & Accommodation Guide | Guam Travel & Accom. Guide | |||
Kosrae | Chuuk | |||
Pohnpei | Yap | |||
Pohnpei Travel & Accomm. Guide | The Mystery of Pitcairn Island | |||
Pohnpei History, Culture & Customs | Oceania2000: Images of Oceania | |||
Kiribati: Historical Images | Aspects of Micronesia | |||
Kiribati Millennium Celebrations | Kiribati Mwaie (Dancing) | |||
About Samoa | Solomon Islands Picture Gallery | |||
Samoa: Travel & Accom. Guide | Am. Samoa: Travel & Acc. Guide | |||
Samoan Picture Gallery | Samoan Conflict | |||
Papua New Guinea Ethnology | A Glimpse of Samoa | |||
Samoa: The Myth of Creation | Samoa: The Pearl of the Pacific | |||
Historical Images of Fiji | Solomon Is. Travel & Accom. Guide | |||
Papua New Guinea | Papua New Guinea: Sepik Region | |||
Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby | Papua New Guinea - Madang and Lae | |||
Papua New Guinea - Islands | Oceania: Captain James Cook | |||
PNG - Historical Impressions | Irian Jaya - Melanesian Culture | |||
Postcards from Fiji | Postcards from the Solomons | |||
Oceania Postcards | Mangareva: Death of a People | |||
Oceania Postcards 2 | Postcards from Tahiti | |||
Fiji - Coral Coast | Fiji - Nadi | |||
Fiji Islands | Fiji - Mamanucas & Yasawas | |||
Fiji - Northern Islands | SUVA - Fiji Islands | |||
Fiji - Castaway Island Resort | Fiji - Treasure Island Resort | |||
Tuvalu Accommodation and Travel Guide | Funafuti, Tuvalu | |||
Kiribati Accommodation and Travel Guide | Kabunare's Story - Banaba | |||
Banaba, The Rock of Kiribati | Banaba History | |||
A Banaba Poem | Banaba, The Republic Of Kiribati | |||
Banaba Culture | Polynesian Voyaging | |||
A Brief History of the Chamorro | The Battle For Nauru | |||
Kiribati Education | Nauru: A Short History | |||
Mysterious Micronesia | Nauru Picture Gallery | |||
More Postcards from Micronesia | Postcards from the Trobriand Islands | |||
Micronesia | Evans Carlson | |||
Rotuma - Aspects of History | Carlson's Raiders Picture Gallery | |||
Solomons Is. - Grassy Knoll Battle | About Evans Carlson | |||
The Spirit of Kiribati | Kiribati Social Structure | |||
Vanuatu - Wreck of the Coolidge | Solomons Is. - Grassy Knoll Battle | |||
Kiribati 2000 (Updated) | Vanuatu - Travel & Accomm. Guide | |||
VANAIR | Kiribati: The Morning Star | |||
Millennium Is. Celebrations - Part 2 | Nonouti - Kiribati | |||
Tarawa - Kiribati | Beru - Kiribati | |||
Kiribati: The Story of Moses Kaure | Kiribati Social Structure | |||
Tuvalu Fatele (Dancing) | Kiribati Picture Gallery (Dance) | |||
Kiribati Picture Gallery Part 2 | Kiribati Picture Gallery Part 3 | |||
Abemama - Kiribati | Abemama - Protect. Declaration | |||
Maiana - Kiribati | Tamana - Kiribati | |||
Butaritari - Kiribati | Banaba - World War 2 | |||
Carlson's Raiders Picture Gallery | Vanuatu - Outer Islands | |||
Marakei - Kiribati | Nanumea - Tuvalu | |||
Abaiang - Kiribati | Oceania Reference Material | |||
Tuvalu Social Structure | Kuria - Kiribati | |||
Tuvalu Cycle of Life | Onotoa - Kiribati | |||
Tuvalu Islands | Makin - Kiribati | |||
Art of the Navigators | Battle for Makin | |||
Kiribati - Creation | Arorae - Kiribati | |||
Battle of Guadalcanal - Solomon Is. | Battle of Tarawa - Kiribati | |||
Jane's Chat Room | Tuvalu and the Hurricanes | |||
Bishop Patteson of Melanesia | Missionary Vessel - Morning Star | |||
Tuvalu Coins | Fiji Postcards 2 | |||
Postcards from Tonga | Tahiti Postcards 2 | |||
Tongatapu: Tonga | Vava'u: Tonga | |||
Tahiti | Tahiti: Outer Islands | |||
Papeete: Tahiti | Tahiti: Accommodation and Travel | |||
Bora Bora: Tahiti | Moorea: Tahiti | |||
New Caledonia Travel & Accom. Guide | Samoa: Lotus Land of the Pacific | |||
Loyalty Islands | Samoa: The Isles of the Navigators | |||
Isle of Pines | Kiribati - Tabiteuea | |||
Oceania Snapshots | Kiribati - Aranuka | |||
Tuvalu Picture Gallery | Tuvalu Origins, History and Culture | |||
Tuvalu Picture Gallery Part 2 | Kiribati: Phoenix Settlement | |||
Early Tuvaluan Religion | Kiribati Education System | |||
Tahiti: The Final Years of Paul Gauguin | Kiribati - Traders | |||
Tuvalu Land Affairs | Kiribati Tradition | |||
Kiribati - Early Gilbertese Wars | Kiribati - Binoka Of Abemama | |||
Kiribati - A Short History | Kiribati - Millennium Island | |||
American Samoa National Park | Kiribati - From Birth to Death | |||
Sights of Solomon Islands | Kiribati Origins and Culture | |||
Jane's Web Page | The Davis Diaries (Extract of Proclamation of a British Protectorate over the Gilbert Islands, now known as Kiribati) | |||
Solomon Islands | ||||
Manuscripts-Alfred Restieaux-Parts 1 & 2 | Captain Davis Diaries Parts 1 & 2 | |||
A short history of Alfred Restieaux | War In The Pacific (WW2) - Kiribati | |||
In Memory of Alfred Restieaux | Tuvalu: World War II Images of Nanumea - Part 2 |
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