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Journal articles on the topic "Lau Islands (Fiji) History"

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Jones, Sharyn, David W. Steadman, and Patrick M. O’Day. "Archaeological Investigations on the Small Islands of Aiwa Levu and Aiwa Lailai, Lau Group, Fiji." Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 2, no. 1 (May 2007): 72–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564890701219966.

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Keogh, J. Scott, Danielle L. Edwards, Robert N. Fisher, and Peter S. Harlow. "Molecular and morphological analysis of the critically endangered Fijian iguanas reveals cryptic diversity and a complex biogeographic history." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363, no. 1508 (September 5, 2008): 3413–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0120.

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The Pacific iguanas of the Fijian and Tongan archipelagos are a biogeographic enigma in that their closest relatives are found only in the New World. They currently comprise two genera and four species of extinct and extant taxa. The two extant species, Brachylophus fasciatus from Fiji, Tonga, and Vanuatu and Brachylophus vitiensis from western Fiji, are of considerable conservation concern with B. vitiensis listed as critically endangered. A recent molecular study has shown that Brachylophus comprised three evolutionarily significant units. To test these conclusions and to reevaluate the phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships within Brachylophus , we generated an mtDNA dataset consisting of 1462 base pairs for 61 individuals from 13 islands, representing both Brachylophus species. Unweighted parsimony analyses and Bayesian analyses produced a well-resolved phylogenetic hypothesis supported by high bootstrap values and posterior probabilities within Brachylophus . Our data reject the monophyly of specimens previously believed to comprise B. fasciatus . Instead, our data demonstrate that living Brachylophus comprise three robust and well-supported clades that do not correspond to current taxonomy. One of these clades comprises B. fasciatus from the Lau group of Fiji and Tonga (type locality for B. fasciatus ), while a second comprises putative B. fasciatus from the central regions of Fiji, which we refer to here as B . n. sp. Animals in this clade form the sister group to B. vitiensis rather than other B. fasciatus . We herein describe this clade as a new species of Brachylophus based on molecular and morphological data. With only one exception, every island is home to one or more unique haplotypes. We discuss alternative biogeographic hypotheses to explain their distribution in the Pacific and the difficulties of distinguishing these. Together, our molecular and taxonomic results have important implications for future conservation initiatives for the Pacific iguanas.
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Clark, Geoffrey, Atholl Anderson, and Sepeti Matararaba. "The Lapita site at Votua, northern Lau Islands, Fiji." Archaeology in Oceania 36, no. 3 (October 2001): 134–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4453.2001.tb00487.x.

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Holland, Elisabeth. "Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the Novel Coronavirus." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 26, no. 1 (July 31, 2020): 243–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i1.1099.

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Abstract: COVID-19 began to manifest in the Pacific Islands by early March 2020, starting in the US and French territories, spreading slowly to the independent countries of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. All of the independent Pacific countries responded with aggressive measures, closing borders and establishing curfews. Against this background, Tropical Cyclone Harold, formed on April Fool's Day, began its devastating path through four Pacific countries: Solomon Islands with 27 dead in a ferry accident; Vanuatu whose northern islands, including Santo and Malekula were devastated by the cyclone with wind speeds greater than 200 km/h. The devastation continued in Fiji, with two tornadoes and devastation particularly in Kadavu and the southern Lau group. Tropical Cyclone Harold struck Tonga at the height of the king tide. COVID-19 continues to complicate relief efforts, particularly in Vanuatu. As of May 3, 2020, sixteen Pacific countries and territories had yet to report their first confirmed case of COVID-19: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Pitcairn, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna. The Pacific continues to lead by example motivated by collective stewardship with actions and policies based on science. Pacific leaders continue to work with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to implement COVID-19 management recommendations.
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Brodie, Gilianne, Gary M. Barker, Helen Pippard, Cindy S. Bick, and Diarmaid Ó. Foighil. "Disappearing jewels: an urgent need for conservation of Fiji’s partulid tree snail fauna." Pacific Conservation Biology 22, no. 3 (2016): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc14931.

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Where conservation status of island non-marine molluscs is known, snails tend to be one of the most threatened faunal groups. However, published information regarding island gastropod conservation status, diversity and endemism is frequently unavailable despite the importance of this information for the formulation of biodiversity action plans and conservation strategy. Fiji, for example, has a diverse native land snail fauna (>240 species) with an endemism level of ~80%, but only within the last few years has any information about any of these species been available to the national biodiversity reporting repository. For one lineage in particular, members of the tree snail family Partulidae, with four endemic Fiji Island species, the conservation status of the group has never been assessed. However, based on the alarming extinction rates documented in partulid snail species on other Pacific Islands, information about the occurrence and status of these taxa is urgently needed for Fiji’s biodiversity action plan. To redress this information void, we formulated the Fijian Partulid Tree Snail Project, consisting of five components: (1) raising awareness; (2) locating populations and monitoring population trends; (3) elucidating patterns of genetic diversity; (4) creating action partnerships; and (5) conducting disturbance gradient analyses. The overall goal was to characterise mechanisms leading to persistence of partulids in the face of increasing anthropogenic disturbance. In the initial stages of this project, existing information on Fiji’s partulids was collated and two small, remote islands in the Fiji archipelago were surveyed to investigate whether tree snails persisted there. Living populations of Partula lanceolata and empty shells of Partula leefei were found on Cicia Island in Lau, and on Rotuma Island in the Rotuma Group, respectively. DNA analyses confirm a sister relationship between the two Partula species in north-eastern Lau, P. lirata and P. lanceolata, with both sharing a sister relationship with a member of the same genus in Vanuatu – P. auraniana Hartman, 1888. Prioritisation and further sampling of additional islands, and residual native habitat on less accessible islands and islets, is needed to fully assess the conservation status of all four Fijian species via the IUCN Red List process. Moreover, the basic descriptive information and associated studies reported here will serve to raise awareness of Fiji’s endemic tree snails particularly in communities that had no prior knowledge of their special conservation status; and also at a wider national, regional and global level. Community awareness is particularly vital as the willing support of land owners in the relevant small island communities is critical to implementing any future conservation action plans.
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Hobbis, Geoffrey, and Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis. "An ethnography of deletion: Materializing transience in Solomon Islands digital cultures." New Media & Society 23, no. 4 (April 2021): 750–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444820954195.

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This article demonstrates the fragility of digital storage through a non-media-centric ethnography of data management practices in the so-called Global South. It shows how in the Lau Lagoon, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, the capacity to reliably store digital media is curtailed by limited access to means of capital production and civic infrastructures, as well as a comparatively isolated tropical ecology that bedevils the permanence of all things. The object biography of mobile phones, including MicroSD cards, typically short, fits into a broader historical pattern of everyday engagements with materializations of transience in the Lau Lagoon. Three types of visual media are exemplary in this regard: sand, ancestral material cultures and digital visual media (photographs and videos). Ultimately, Lau experiences of transience in their visual media are located in their visual technological history and the choices they make about which materials to maintain or dispose of.
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Siegel, Jeff. "Origins of Pacific Islands labourers in Fiji." Journal of Pacific History 20, no. 1 (January 1985): 42–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223348508572504.

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James, Kieran, and Yogesh Nadan. "Gesturing Elsewhere and Offshore Memory: Amateur Elite Soccer in the Fiji Islands, 1980–1992." Sport History Review 52, no. 1 (May 1, 2021): 22–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/shr.2020-0001.

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This article studies the amateur elite National Soccer League in the Fiji Islands from 1980 to 1992 and the Fiji national team's landmark 1–0 win over Australia in 1988. The authors use the theoretical idea of “gesturing elsewhere,” taken from the work of popular music scholar Emma Baulch, to explain how the local Fiji soccer community receives its meaning and identity largely as the local-outpost or chapter of the global soccer scene. Therefore, a victory over the sporting powerhouse Australia boosts the self-image of the Fiji soccer world by temporarily upturning the established hierarchies. The shock 1988 win saw Fiji assigned extra credibility in the global context. The authors also look at the Indo-Fijian (Fijians of Indian decent) emigrant communities of the West and argue that, through their ongoing love of Fiji soccer, they play a role akin to offshore memory or offshore library, cataloging past history and revering past stars and classic contests.
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Møller Andersen, N. "The coral bugs, genus Halovelia Bergroth (Hemiptera, Veliidae). I. History, classification, and taxonomy of species except the H. malaya-group." Insect Systematics & Evolution 20, no. 1 (1989): 75–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631289x00519.

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AbstractMarine bugs of the genus Halovelia Bergroth inhabit intertidal coral reefs and rocky coasts along the continents and larger islands bordering the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and western Pacific Ocean as well as on island groups and atolls in these areas. A historical review of the study of the genus is presented and different views upon its classification discussed. The genus Halovelia is redescribed together with its type species, H. maritima Bergroth, and four other previously known species. Fifteen new species are described: H. carolinensis sp.n. (Caroline Islands), H. halophila sp.n. (Sumbawa, Sabah), H. corallia sp.n. (Papua New Guinea, Australia: Queensland), H. esakii sp.n. (Solomon Islands, Irian New Guinea, Moluccas, Sulawesi, Sumbawa, Palau Islands, Philippines), H. polhemi sp.n. (Australia: Northern Territory), H. solomon sp.n. (Solomon Islands), H. novoguinensis sp.n. (Papua New Guinea), H. fosteri sp.n. (Fiji Islands), H. tongaensis sp.n. (Tonga Islands), H. heron sp.n. (Australia: S. Queensland), H. fijiensis sp.n. (Fiji Islands), H. inflexa sp.n. (Sudan, Red Sea), H. annemariae sp.n. (Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea), H. lannae sp.n. (Java, Singapore, West Malaysia, Sabah, Philippines), and H. wallacei sp.n. (Sulawesi, Sumbawa). Two names are synonymized: H. marianarum Usinger syn.n. (= H. bergrothi Esaki) and H. danae Herring syn.n. (= H. bergrothi Esaki). The following species are removed from the genus Halovelia: H. papuensis Esaki, H. loyaltiensis China, and H. (Colpovelia) angulana Polhemus. A key to the species is included. The taxonomy of the H. malaya-group will be presented in Part II of this work together with the cladistics, ecology, biology, and biogeography of the genus.
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Hobbis, Geoffrey. "The Shifting Moralities of Mobile Phones in Lau Communicative Ecologies (Solomon Islands)." Oceania 87, no. 2 (July 2017): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5160.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Lau Islands (Fiji) History"

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Taganesia, Jeremaiya Vakacegu. "Mechanisms and Remediation of Cut Batter Failures Along the Queens Road at Wainigasau and Namuka I Lau, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geological Sciences, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4150.

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The first cut batter failures along the Queens Road, Viti Levu occurred in 1979 following a prolonged high precipitation event. This has continued to occur through to 2009 and this thesis research is centred on understanding the mechanisms of recurring cut batter failures occurring at Namuka i lau and Wainigasau. The Namuka i lau and Wainigasau cut batters are cut into highly weathered polymict conglomerates belonging to the Veisari Sandstone. Each site comprises three benches at approximately 9 m in height. The Namuka i lau benches are 1 m wide with 50ºslope faces and the Wainigasau benches are 3 m wide with 60ºslope faces. Field investigations revealed previous landslide activity at the Namuka i lau site in contrast to the Wainigasau site which showed a lack of evidence of previous landslide activity. XRD analysis determined the clast and matrix material to be composed of quartz, hematite and kaolinite with quartz compositions ranging from 65% - 100%, hematite compositions from 1% - 25% and kaolinite composition percentages ranging between 1% and 25%. Other laboratory studies determined the material to have a high water content (Namuka i lau – 47.2% and Wainigasau – 44.9%), low unit weight (Namuka i lau – 14.5 kN/m³ and Wainigasau – 15.8 kN/m³), low permeability (K for Namuka i lau – 2.78 x 10⁻⁷m/s and Wainigasau – 6.66 x 10⁻⁷m/s), high plasticity, low cohesion (cr = 3.9 kPa) and a residual friction angle of 15.0 º. Factors of safety calculated for the cut batters are low (FS = 0.4) due to the low values of cohesion and friction angles used in the modelling process. Sensitivity analysis determined that the highest factors of safety were achieved when both the cohesion value was increased to 20 kPa and the friction angle increased to 30º using the Bishop Simplified Method of slope stability analysis for Wainigasau (FS = 1.28) and Namuka i lau (FS = 1.23).
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Spurway, John. "Ma'afu : the making of the Tui Lau." Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110265.

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Ma'afu, born in Tonga about 1826, was a son of Aleamotu'a, Tu'i Kanokupolu and a cousin of Tupou I, king of Tonga. When aged about 21, he came to live in Fiji and within fifteen years established a power base to rival that of any indigenous chief. In 1865, a Wesleyan missionary visiting the island of Vanuabalavu paid a call on Ma'afu at his home in Lomaloma.
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Sone, Tamara Leigh. "Network of islands : historical linkages among the islands of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2333.

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This study presents an analysis of the interactions observed among the West Polynesia islands of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, using concepts of regional systems and trade networks. The connections between these island groups in the period between the 1770s and the 1870s are examined in extensive detail. In particular, this analysis takes the theoretical framework of the world-systems approach of Chase-Dunn and Hall and applies a method involving networks of exchange to this region. These networks include the information network, the bulk products network, the political/ military network and the network of prestige valuables. Archival data show the operation and content of these networks and demonstrate that with the influx of European products in the early colonial period, there was an efflorescence of long-distance exchange in this region. This analysis of networks linking the island groups suggest that Fiji, Tonga and Samoa should be viewed as a regional unit instead of three distinct societies for many subjects of investigation.
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Books on the topic "Lau Islands (Fiji) History"

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Lal, Brij V. Broken waves: A historyof the Fiji Islands in the twentieth century. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.

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Lal, Brij V. Broken waves: A history of the Fiji Islands in the twentieth century. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.

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Scuttlebutt: Tales from the shores of the Fiji Islands. Suva, Fiji: Jean Brown, 2011.

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Hughes, H. G. A. Chronology of education in Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and Tonga. Afonwen [Mold, Clwyd]: Gwasg Gwenffrwd, 1991.

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Prasad, Satendra. Economic development, democracy and ethnic conflict in the Fiji Islands. London: Minority Rights Group International, 2001.

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Prasad, Satendra. Economic development, democracy and ethnic conflict in the Fiji Islands. London: Minority Rights Group International, 2001.

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Tim, Bayliss-Smith, ed. Islands, islanders, and the world: The colonial and post-colonial experience of eastern Fiji. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Food and gender in Fiji: Ethnoarchaeological explorations. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2009.

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Scarr, Deryck. Gulliver's Other Islands: A New History of Fiji. C. Hurst and Company (Publishers) Limited, 2019.

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Spurway, John. Ma'afu, prince of Tonga, chief of Fiji: The life and times of Fiji’s first Tui Lau. ANU Press, 2015.

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Book chapters on the topic "Lau Islands (Fiji) History"

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Jones, Sharyn. "Contemporary subsistence and foodways in the Lau Islands of Fiji:." In Ethnozooarchaeology, 73–81. Oxbow Books, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh1dwvg.13.

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Shoemaker, Nancy. "Why Go a Fiji Voyage?" In Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles, 1–13. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501740343.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter discusses why, despite the negative assumptions regarding the islands of Fiji during the nineteenth century, Americans still went there. Indeed, several thousand of them voyaged to Fiji on merchant, whaling, and naval vessels in the decades before British colonization of the islands in 1874. And more than a hundred Americans lived and died there. From a macro perspective, explaining the American presence in Fiji seems simple. Their rationale was economic: Americans went to Fiji to extract resources to sell in China. Fiji became one leg in the U.S.–China trade and a source of great wealth for the American merchants who gambled their fortunes on it. However, a closer inspection reveals that the foot soldiers of early U.S. global expansion, the individual Americans who ventured overseas, did so for more complicated reasons. An assortment of personal ambitions impelled Americans to travel to distant locales. Their motivations, albeit multiple and divergent, often derived from a desire to be respected by others and thereby attain a sense of self-worth. Their strivings to rise in others' estimation influenced the course of Fiji's history and, albeit more subtly, the history of the United States.
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Shoemaker, Nancy. "This Hell upon Earth." In Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles, 161–85. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501740343.003.0007.

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This chapter details Salem merchant John B. Williams's frustrated efforts to live up to the legacy of Salem's mercantile culture. Though money was what Williams wanted from Fiji, he valued money not for its purchasing power but as a symbol of his success in business. He hoped that a fortune reaped in Fiji would command respect by demonstrating his superior commercial acumen to the people of Salem, a city renowned for having produced some of the nation's earliest millionaires. The speculations at the heart of American commercial expansion could generate extraordinary returns one day and ruin a person the next. Even if failure was endemic, Williams anguished over the cause of his. He was trapped between two competing cultural values. He believed that self-made wealth would earn him others' esteem, but to exhibit blatant self-interest was despicable. Although Williams never achieved his objective in Fiji, his actions bore consequences for others. More than any other American, Williams influenced the islands' history. Whereas David Whippy sought foremost to protect the foreign enclave at Levuka, Williams belonged to a vast, global economy in which his self-interest constituted one tentacle.
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Merlin, Mark, and William Raynor. "Modern Use and Environmental Impact of the Kava Plant in Remote Oceania." In Dangerous Harvest. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195143201.003.0020.

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The kava plant, Piper methysticum Forst. f., is an attractive shrub in the pepper family, Piperaceae (figure 12.1). Known by various names in tropical Pacific, such as yagona, kava, kava kava, ’awa, seka, and sakau, it is propagated vegetatively, as are most of the traditional crops in the region. Kava has been used for many centuries to produce psychoactive preparations. Its active principles, several lipidlike substances known as kavalactones, are concentrated in the rootstock and roots. These psychoactive chemicals are ingested traditionally by Pacific islanders as cold-water infusions of chewed, ground, pounded, or otherwise macerated kava stumps and roots. Mind-altering kava preparations are, or once were, imbibed in a wide range of Pacific Ocean societies. These include peoples living in some lowland areas on the large Melanesian island of New Guinea in the western Pacific to very isolated islands such as those in Polynesian Hawai’i, 7,000 kilometers to the northeast (figure 12.2). Beyond this widespread local use in the tropical Pacific, utilization of kava in parts of Europe as a plant source for medicinal preparations has a relatively lengthy history. In Europe it has been used as a sedative, tranquilizer, muscle relaxant, relief from menopausal symptoms, and treatment for urinary tract and bladder ailments (Lebot et al. 1999). Over the past decade, there has been rapidly increasing interest in kava well beyond the areas of traditional use among Pacific Islanders (figure 12.3). This includes a huge surge in the use of kava products in Europe, North America, Australia, and elsewhere. Within the past 3 to 5 years there has been widespread recognition of its potential to emerge as a mainstream herbal product. Modern cultivation and use of kava in the Pacific has significantly expanded in some traditional use areas such as Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and Pohnpei. There are also significant signs of rejuvenated interest in kava cultivation in some traditional areas of use where it had been abandoned because of depopulation, political prohibition, or zealous missionary denunciation. Increasing use and cultivation of kava on these Pacific islands has been stimulated by local consumption rates and rising demand for commercial export.
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Conference papers on the topic "Lau Islands (Fiji) History"

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Takahashi, Takeharu, Seiya Morita, Makoto Miyoshi, Takayuki Tanaka, and Katsuhiko Maeda. "Case history of copper exploration in Namosi District, the Republic of Fiji Islands." In Proceedings of the 10th SEGJ International Symposium. Society of Exploration Geophysicists of Japan, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segj102011-001.104.

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