Book Lists & Book Dealers

• Bess Press (independent publisher since 1979, Hawaii)

• Book Bin - Pacifica (book dealer, Corvallis, OR, USA)

• Books Pasifika (book dealer, Auckland, NZ)

• Lonely Planet Online (travel guides & much more!)

• Manaaki Whenua Press (browseable catalogue of New Zealand science publications, Lincoln, NZ)

• Maritime & French Pacific Books (Proprietors: Jean-Louis & Janet Boglio)

  

• Moon Travel Handbooks (definitive travel guides, USA)
  • Australia
  • Fiji Islands
  • Micronesia
  • New Zealand
  • Outback Australia
  • South Pacific
  • Tahiti-Polynesia

• Oceans Enterprises (scuba diving books, maps, etc., Aust.)

• Pan Pacifica Publications (Stat., social & scientific info., Honolulu, HI)

• Pacific Prints (Tapa Prints for sale... ok, so it ain't a book site)

• University of Hawaii Press
  • Online Book Catalog (910 titles=149K, courtsey of Assoc. of Amer. Uni. Presses, USA)

• University of Papua New Guinea Press (catalog & links)

Pacific Media Resources

• Cafe Pacific (D. Robie, news/articles from Asia-Pacific Network, Uni. of Tech., Sydney, Aust.)
  • Pacific Media Watch (indep. monitoring of media ethics, censorship & other issues)

• CocoNET Wireless (S. Layton, Pac. Is. news & info., Uni. Queensland, Aust.)
  • Pacific Is. Newspapers, Radio & TV Stations
  • Media Associations

• Film Resources Online
  • Film Australia
  • Moving Images of the Pacific Islands (searchable database of Pacific films & videos)
  • Ronin Films
    • Aust. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Films

• Misc. Articles Online
  • Fiji Hosts the Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific (2 - 6 September 1996) Press Release
  • "It's Not Just About Wires" M.R. Ogden (1995, October), The Development Bulletin, Vol. 35, Pp. 19-22.

• Pacific Islands Radio Stations (N. Sanderson, N.Z.)

• Pacific Islands Report (A. Hulsen, weekly news reports, PIDP, Hawaii)

• Pacific Periodicals (K. Buluk, ClarkNet, USA)

• Papua Niugini Nius (PNG & Pacific news service)

• (PNG) The National Online (PNG Daily newspaper)

• Pacific Magazine

• (PNG) Post-Curier (PNG Daily newspaper)

• Rapa Nui News

• Samoa Observer

• Signposts (still in beta: online database for Asia-Pacific journalists)

• The Tonga Chronicle (Tonga's weekly newspaper online!)

• (USA) Washington Post (Pacific News & Reference by Country)

  American Samoa	Fiji
  French Polynesia	Guam
  (Federated States of) Micronesia	New Caledonia
  (Republic of) Palau	Papua New Guinea
  Pitcairn Island	(Kingdom of) Tonga
  Vanuatu	Western Samoa

Document Collections & Resources

• ArchNet: Australia & Pacific (Internet archaeological resources, for Australia & the Pacific)

• AnthroGlobe Bibliographies
  • Cook Islands
  • Fiji
  • Tonga
  • Tourism

• Australia National Library: Pacific Collections (Readers Guide #36, Aust.)

• Asia Now Online Pacific Islands Project (grades 9-12 curriculum resources, HPTV, Honolulu, HI)
  • Pacific Islands Fishing Series (Investigative Report)
  • Marshall Islands: Nuclear Guinea Pigs (Investigative Report)

• Oceanic Art & Culture (via Ctr. for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU, Aust.)

• Dictionaries & Other Misc. Language Resources
  • AnthroGlobe Bibliographies (web anthro. journal, UK)
  • Bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English (T. Slone, bibliography)
  • The Human-Languages Page
    • Aboriginal Languages
    • Hawaiian
    • Maori
    • Tok Pidgin
    • Pitcairn
    • Tahitian
    • Tongan
  • Pidgin/English Dictionary
  • Summer Institute of Linguistics
    • SIL Bibliography (searchable database)
    • Ethnologue: Languages of the World (searchable database, 13^th ed., 1996)

• Coconut: Web Guide to the Tropical World (Ezine with the motto: "Wherever coconuts grow!")
  • Feature article on the Kava Market (by B. Dear, September 1996)

• Convention for the Prohibition of Fishing with Long Driftnets (Tufts Uni., USA)

• Documents from Melanesia, Polynesia & the Pacific (FWDP, USA)

• Fahnestock South Sea Collection (gopher: guide, Library of Congress, USA)

• Glossary: International Organizations and Groups (including those with Pacific Island nations as members)

• The Island Web Gateway (repository of information pertaining to small islands and developmental issues, UNU, Japan)
  • UNU Small Islands Network
  • UNU Envoronment "Area"

• Journal of Pacific History

• Journal du Pacifique Sud (En français, avec Tahiti Pacifique)

• Kava Information (L. Kagan, hypertext document & bibliography, USA)

• Literature in the Public Domain (on, about or set in the South Pacific!)
  • "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn" (gopher: Mark Twain, 1903)
  • "The Moon and Sixpence" (ftp: S. Maugham, Project Gutenberg, 1995)
  • "Typee" (gopher: H. Melville, 1846)
  • "The Wrecker" (gopher: R.L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne, 1896)

• The Melanesian Archive (FAQ: UCSD Library, USA)

• Microstate Network (M. Leventhal, Microstate Ltd., USA)
  • Micronesia Sustainable Development Interchange

• Niue Treaty on Cooperation in Fisheries Surveillance & Law Enforcement (Tufts Uni., USA)

• No Place for a Picnic (J. Taylan, researched, wrote, illustrated & published story)
  This 208 page graphic novel deals with Justin Taylan's grandfather and his World War II service in the
  South Pacific as a soldier and combat photographer.

• Pacific Health Dialog (Journal of Community Health & Clinical Medicine for the Pacific)

• Pacific Internet Sites (Nat. Library of Aust., database of Internet sites on/about Pac. Is.)

• Pacific Islands Association of Libraries & Archives (primary focus in Micronesia)
  • PIALA Newsletters

• Pacific Islands Info. & Resources (A. Toimoana & T. Tane, BYU, Hawaii)

• Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (ANU, Aust.)

• Polynesian Language & Culture Bibliography (ftp: J. Marck, ANU, Aust.)

• Polynesian Mythology Bibliography (ftp: ANU, Aust.)

• Resistance In Paradise (publication of the American Friends Service Committee)
  Featuring voices from the peoples of Cuba, Guam, Hawai'i, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Samoa.
  Written for students, educators, and community activists.

• Small Islands & Trade (gopher: UNDP's Issues in Brief, March 1994)

• South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (SPNFZ, Tufts Uni., USA)

• South Seas BUBL (online info. server, Victoria Uni., New Zealand)

• TROUT: A South Pacific Journal of the Arts (forum for poetry, prose,reviews, interviews & artwork, NZ)

• Uni. of Hawaii's Hamilton Library
  • UHCARL (telnet: online catalog including Hawaii/Pacific Collection, USA)
  • Hawaiian Collection
  • Pacific Collection

• UN Global Conf. on Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (25 April - 6 May 1994, Barbados)
  • FSM Government Statement
  • Fiji Government Statement
  • New Zealand Government Statement
  • PNG Government Statement
  • Pacific NGO Statement (at March 1994 PrepCom)
  • United Nations Volunteers & Small Island Developing States

• UN World Summit for Social Development (March 5-12 1995, Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • Statement by the Cook Islands
  • Statement by Fiji (Second statement)
  • Statement by the Marshall Islands (Second statement)
  • Statement by Niue
  • Statement by Papua New Guinea
  • Statement by Vanuatu (also in French)
  • United Nations Volunteers & Social Development

• We Polynesians (S. Mokofisi, Web-zine " for all Polynesians and friends," Compuserve)

• World Factbook 1996: Australia & Oceania (CIA, descriptions of Oceanic Nations & Territories, USA)

• World Wide Web Virtual Library: PACIFIC STUDIES ('Alopi Latukefu, ANU, Aust.)
  • WWW-Virtual Library: Australia (F.B. Poyas, PSU, USA)
  • WWW-Virtual Library: New Zealand (F.B. Poyas, PSU, USA)
  • WWW-Virtual Library: Papua New Guinea (J. Burton, ANU, Aust.)

• Yahoo! Does the South Pacific! (Yahoo! Web Index, USA)

Academic Institutions & Centers

• Association of Social Anthropologist of Oceania (ASAO site, Hawaii, USA)

• Australia-New Zealand Studies Center (F. Poyas, Penn State, USA)

• Austronesia Online (Assoc. for the Study of Austronesian Lang., ANU, AUST.)

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (Hawaii, USA)
  • Archives (late 18th thru 20th Century Hawaii)
  • Education
  • Planetarium

• Center for Asian & Pacific Studies (Uni. of Oregon, USA)
  • Micronesia & South Pacific Program

• Center for Pacific Islands Studies (Uni. of Hawaii, USA)
  • Moving Images of the Pacific Islands (searchable database of Pacific films & videos)
  • The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs (Journal, UH Press, Hawaii, USA)

• Centre for South Pacific Studies (G. McCall, Uni. of New South Wales, Aust.)

• Community Environmental Research in the Pacific Islands ()

• CoL: Pacific Region (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

• European Society for Oceanists (EsfO, Finland; also Aust. Mirror Site)

• European Centre for Studies, Information & Education on Pacific Issues (ECSIEP) (Zeist, Netherlands)

• The Field Museum, Chicago (not directly related to the Pac. Is., but some projects are!)
  • New Guinea Research Program (gopher: informational document)

• Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ)

• The Micronesian Seminar (Org. based in FSM, site courtsey of Microstate Network & IIC)
  • Micronesian Councelor (occasional papers series, since 1990)

• Oceania Newsletter - Center for Pacific Studies (U. Nijmegen, Netherlands)

• ORSTOM Nouméa (Centre ORSTOM de Nouméa en Nouvelle Calédonie)

• Pacific & Asian Affairs Council (seeks to increase understanding of international affairs, Hawaii, USA)

• Pacific Bridges (interdisciplinary info. server, Shizuoka Uni., JAPAN)

• Pacific Business Center Program (B. Spencer, UHM, USA)

• Pacific Islanders' Cultural Association (PICA) (R. Myers, UC Davis, USA)

• Pacific Islands Development Program (East-West Center, Hawaii)

• Pacific Resources for Education & Learning (Hawaii, USA)

• Pacific Science Association (L. Eldredge, access via Bishop Museum)
  • Women & Young Scientists in Asian & Pacific Science (Report & Recommendations)
  • PSA's VIII Inter-Congress (13-19 July 1997: hosted by USP, Suva, Fiji)

• Pacific Studies Facility (gopher: Aust. Nat. Uni., Aust.)
  • PIG Newsletter (gopher: Pacific Islands Group, RSPAS, ANU, Aust.)
  • Coombspapers (ftp: ANU Social Sci. Archive)
  • Search the "ANU-Pacific-Islands-L" database (gopher search the database)
  • Search the "ANU-Theses-Abstracts" database (gopher search the database)

• PeaceSat (Uni. of Hawaii, USA)
  • Pacific Islands Sites (contact info. for PeaceSat terminals)

• Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC invites you to "Visit the Islands of Polynesia!"  BYU, Hawaii, USA)
  • Aotearoa (New Zealand)
  • Fiji
  • Hawaii
  • Marquesas
  • Samoa
  • Tahiti
  • Tonga

• Polynesian Voyaging Society
  • PVS Gopherspace (gopher: NIC, Hawaii, USA)

• The Samoa Fealofani Club (Uni. of Hawaii)

• Small Islands Information Network (P. Meincke, UPEI, Canada)

• South Pacific Center for Communication Information and Development (SPCenCIID at UPNG)
  • Pacific Development Communications (more info. about SPCenCIID)
  • Pacific Journalism Review (Publication of SPCenCIID, D. Robie, editor)
  • Uni Tavur (SPCenCIID student newspaper)

• South Pacific Information Network ('Alopi Sione Latukefu, Sunsite, Aust.)

• Teaching the Pacific Forum (G. McCall, UNSW, Aust.)

• Tongan History Association
  • Tongan History Assoc. Forum

• University of the South Pacific (USP) (official USP website, slow link, Suva, Fiji)

Regional Organizations

• Who Belongs to What: Membership in Selected International Orgs (gopher: U.S. Dept. of State)

• Development Banks
  • Asian Development Bank
    • Pacific Island Developing Member Countries
    • Project Profiles: Federated States of Micronesia
    • Project Profiles: Papua New Guinea
    • Project Profiles: Vanuatu

  • The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
    • Health Priorities & Options in the World Bank's Pacific Member Countries (gopher: abstract of report)
    • Social Indicators of Development (1994)
    • Trends in Developing Economies (1994)
    • World Tables (1994)

• Inter-Governmental
  • Alliance of Small Island States (Counterpart International, Inc., USA)

  • South Pacific Commission (from a 1988 document)

  • South Pacific Forum
    • Forum Secretariat
    • 25th Forum Communiqué (1994) (Brisbane, Aust.)
      • SPF News, Brisbane 1994 (media summaries of 25th SPF meeting)
    • 26th Forum Press Releases, 1995 (courtsey of CocoNET Wireless)

  • South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency

  • South Pacific Trade Commission (based in Sydney, Aust.)

  • South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commision (SOPAC, based in Fiji)
    • 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zones

  • South Pacific Organisations Coordinating Committee (SPOCC) Membership

  • Tourism Council of the South Pacific (News & contact info. courtesy of South Pacific On-Line)

  • UNDP's Fiji Field Office
    • UNDP Programme of Assistance to Pacific Island Countries (Status Report, 1997 Feb.)
    • Pacific Country & Regional Programmes (pdf doc., need Adobe Acrobat reader)
    • Pacific Human Development Report (pdf doc., need Adobe Acrobat reader)

• Non-Governmental
  • Counterpart International, Inc. (formerly, Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific)
  • Island Initiatives Consulting (D. Williams, non-profit org. based in RMI, Clark.net, USA)

  • Pacific Basin Medical Association (serving medical professionals of U.S.-Associated Pacific Islands)

  • Pacific Islanders in Communications (Assists Pacific Islander media producers, HI, USA)

  • PTC Web (Pacific Telecom. Council, Hawaii, USA)
    • Pacific Island Telecom. Tariff Info. (June 1994)
    • Who's Who in Pacific Is. Telecom.

  • Pactok (low-cost email network for Asia-Pacific NGOs)
    • Pacific Sustainable Development Network (part of the global SDN, hosted by Pactok)

  • Sasakawa Pacific Island Nations Fund (private sustainable development org. in Japan)

  • World Wildlife Fund Global Network
    • Asia/Pacific Programme
    • South Pacific Conservation Programme
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Solomon Islands
      • Vanuatu

Travel & Travel Information

• Australia & South Pacific Traveler's Health Information (U.S. CDC)

• Adventures in Paradise! (Yacht cruising the Islands! Capt. D. Lambdin, Hawaii, USA)

• Adventurous Traveler Bookstore (So. Pacific book & map list)

• Amazia: South Pacific Travel (Australia, New Zealand & Fiji travel information, Aust.)

• ANZA Travel Ltd. (Travel experts for Aust., New Zealand & South Pacific Islands)

• [Hawaii] Atlantic & Pacific Travel ("Not your ordinary travel agency!")

• Condé Nast Traveler: South Pacific (Condé Nast Traveler's ratings of Pac. Is. destinations!)

• Destination Micronesia (via Continental's Air Micronesia)

• Dive Discovery ("complete dive & adventure travel")
  • Fiji
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Solomon Islands

• Down Under Traveller (Webzine: Your travel guide to the South Pacific!)

• Hideaway Holidays (travel wholesaler specializing in Pacific Islands, Aust.)

• Internet Guide to Hostelling (premier Internet guide to hostels & budget travel!)

  

• Lonely Planet Online (real places, real people, stray dogs)
  • Destinations: Australasia
  • Destinations: Pacific
  

• Netilus - Destination: Oceania (scuba diving & eco-travel)

• ORBIT International (global travel guide, Sweden)
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Pacific Islands
    • Cook Islands
    • Fiji
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Western Samoa

• Pacific-Asia Travel Association (PATA) ("The Voice of Pacific-Asia Travel & Tourism")
  • PATA Pacific Division
  • PATA Pacific Island Member Nations
    • Cook Islands
    • Fiji
    • Guam
    • Hawaii
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • Tonga
    • Vanuatu
    • Western Samoa

• Travel Documents: Australia-Oceania (passports, visas & other info.)

• Qantas Airways, Ltd. (the Australian airline!)

• See & Sea Travel Service, Inc. (Diver's World Wide Info Syst., San Francisco, CA, USA)

  

• South Pacific Handbook (D. Stanley, Moon Publications)

• South Pacific On-Line (South Pacific tourism info.)

• Travel Consultant (C. Helwig, specializing in So. Pacific travel)

• TravelWeb (info. on Best Western, Hilton & Hyatt Hotels & Resorts)

• Triple One Bed & Breakfast Directory

UseNet Newsgroups (if accessable from your site) & Chat Sites

• Alt: Hawaii (discusses Hawaii's multicultural society)

• Hawaii: Politics (local politics in Hawaii)

• Isle.Ocean.Policy (seems to be dead -- Hawaii Only)

• ClariNet: Oceania (usenet news service)
  • ClariNet: Australia
  • ClariNet: New Zealand

• Soc.Culture.Pacific-Island (Newest addition to the Pacific Islands discussion venues!)

• The KAVA BOWL (Discuss issues, share experiences or ask questions related to the Pacific region)
  • Academic's Forum (Region-wide)
  • Pacific Business & Investment Forum
  • Bula Forum (Fiji)
  • Ples Blong Storian (Melanesia)

• Polynesian Cafe (Polynesian owned virtual cafe!)

• Wantok's Forum (Papua New Guinea)

- - all pau!   (Last modified: 31 August 1998)