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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AN OCEANIA POEM
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 Radio Melanesia 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.
Music is an integral part of life on the islands of the Pacific. Indeed, the songs and dances are woven into the very fabric of everyday life. Life, love, work, play, the ocean, the gods, the earth itself; they all flow through the music of the Pacific Islands, as surely as the sand erodes into the sea. Pacific Island music is truly the music of the world and is proudly featured on our four Pacific Islands Radio stations!
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