Meiji Gakuin University, Robert Seward, Pacific Island Studies

last update 11/18 r seward
seward@k.meijigakuin.ac.jp

PACIFIC ISLAND STUDIES


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Art Museums and Ethnology Resources
News Sources
General Pacific Information
Data Sources
NGOs and Government Related Organizations
University Libraries
Pacific Website Information
Pacific Travel
Weather
Telephone Numbers
International Country
Codes and UTC
Airport
Codes Pacific
Medical, Insurance, Safety
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Small Island States Project

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PACIFIC NEWS--SOURCES
Pacific Islands Report--news source [East West Center, Hawaii] PIR
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC News and Asia Pacific
BBC Asia-Pacific

Coconut Wireless, Contemporary Pacific Islands Press
FijiLive New Guinea
Fiji Times
FM 96
Forex News
Islands Business

KPRG, public radio Guam
New Zealand Herald

Pacific Journalism Review (PJR)
Pacific Media Watch
Pacnews, Pacific Island News (Pacific Island Broadcasting Association)
Pacific Magazine (Honolulu)
Papua Niugini Nius service is published by Journalism Studies, University of Papua

Papua New Guinea Post Courier
PINA
Radio Fiji News
Student Journalism Newsletter Uni Tavur
The Age newspaper

The Australian
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DATA SOURCES
ANZ Bank
Asian Development Bank--economics and statistics
Australian Agency for International Development AUSAID
Australian Bureau of Statistics

Bank of Hawaii
CIA World Factbook--see for various Pacific Island countries, includes maps

Federated States of Micronesia FSM investment
Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics

IMF, country information

Institute for Developing Economies, JETRO, Chiba
Marshall Islands, statistics

National Statistical Office of Papua New Guinea--NSO
POPIN Asia/Pacific Population Information Network (UNESCAP)

Population Council

State of Hawaii--download Excel files from Hawaii

Statistics New Zealand
Small Island States Development Network--SIDSNet
South Pacific Community--statistics program, see South Pacific Economies: Statistical Summary--download Excel files, also useful links; demogphy 
Statistics Institute of French Polynesia EN FR
University of Minnesota
UN Population Information Network
UN Statistical Institute for Asia Pacific, Chiba
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NGOs AND GOVERNMENT-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS
Alliance of Small Island States
American Samoa

Australian Government Agencies AU

Canadian International Development Agency

Cook Islands, Government of the  

East Timor

Federated States of Micronesia, Congress of
Fiji Government
Forum Secretariat,
Forum Fisheries Agency 
French Polynesia

Greenpeace--Australia Pacific

Guam
[Kiribati]
Marshall Islands
New Caledonia
New Zealand Agency for International Development
, Government
Niue, Government of
Northern Mariana Islands

Pacific Power Association

Palau
PALM 2000
Papua New Guinea

SOPAC--South Pacific Geoscience Commission
South Pacific Center for Communication and Information in Development
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Fiji

Pacific Telecommunications Council
Pitcairn, Government Website
Samoa Government Website
SIDS Net
Solomon Islands

South Pacific Community, New Caledonia
South Pacific Tourist Organization

[Tokelau]
Tonga, Government WebSite
UN Development Program (UNDP)
United Nations--UN homepage
World Health Organization--WHO

Vanuatu Government Website
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UNIVERSITIES, UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO)
Australian National University Journal of Pacific History
Bishop Museum Library, Honolulu
Ciolek and Latukefu's Virtual Library
East West Center
European Society for Oceanists
Hawaiian Studies WebSite (UH, Manoa Library
Human Relations Area Files--Yale University (Workbook)
International Centre for Island Studies
International Institute for Sustainable Development, IISD
Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies, Kobe University
Japan Society of Island Studies
Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies (JSOS)
Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands
Melanesia Interest Group
National Library of Australia, Canberra Pacific Links
National Library of New Zealand (Alexander Turnbull Library), Wellington
Secretariat of the Pacific Community Library
State Society and Governance in Melanesia (ANU)
State Library of New South Wales (Mitchell Library), Sydney PICMAN
University of Auckland, Auckland
University of California, San Diego (Melanesian Studies Resource Center), La Jolla
University of Guam
University of Hawaii Center for Pacific Island Studies, Hawaiian Collection, University of Hawaii Press
University of Kent--Experience-Rich Anthropology Site
University of New South Wales,  Center for South Pacific Studies
University of Nijmegen, Center for Pacific and Asian Studies
University of Oregon, Micronesia and the South Pacific Program
University of Papua New Guinea Press
University of the South Pacific, GIS Unit USP Library, USP journalism program
University of Technology, Sydney--journalism
University of Texas--maps
Web Atlas--University of the South Pacific
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WEBSITES--GENERAL LISTS
Hawaiian Websites
Websites in Fiji
North Pacific
Pacific Internet Sites (National Library of Australia)
Longitude--visit the National Maritime Museum in the UK
Peter Ogden, University of Hawaii
Fenua Pasifika

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TRAVEL
International Calling Codes--Pacific Locations
Airlines--Pacific
Airline Consolidators
Airport Codes--Pacific Locations
Currency Rates Forex News
Norfolk Island Botanic Gardens
Pacific Destinations
South Pacific Organizer
Virtually Hawaii
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MEDICAL, INSURANCE, SAFETY
World Health Organization (ONU)
Malaria Server (Himeiji-Dokkyo Univeristy)
Medical preparedness overseas--general
Health and Welfare Ministry Information--Japan
Foreign Ministry warnings, Japan
AIU
Tokyo Marine Insurance
Health Check Lonely Plannet
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WEATHER  
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
CNN Storm Center

Cyclone FAQs
Fiji Meteorological Service

Himawari Meteorological Satellite Images

Japan Meteorology Agency

Meteorological Service NZ
NOAA (US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Tropical Cyclone Related Links and Web Sites ***.
University of Hawaii Tropical Cyclones Storm Tracks UH Weather Server
Weather FAQs--NOAA What is a tropical cyclone?
WMO (UN's World Meteorological Organization)

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GENERAL INFORMATION--PACIFIC WEBSITES
Cafe Pacific, David Robie
Pacific Internet Services (Samoa)
PIR--Pacific Links
Ogden's Pacific Islands Internet Resources (University of Hawaii)
Southern Ocean Review SOR New Zealand literary zine
SPIN South Pacific Information Network, Australian National University
Tinfish College lit-mag-like zine
Tonga Online
U.S. Territories and Affiliated Jurisdictions
Vanuatu Cargo Cult
Vanuatu Cultural Centre
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ART--MUSEUMS, PACIFIC ISLAND AND ABORIGINAL.
Art History Resources
Australian National University, Cross-Cultural Studies--bibliography of Art, Ethnography and Anthropology
Australia, National Library--Image collection
Bishop Museum Honolulu
British Museum, Pacific Collection
Fiji Museum
Het Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht
Museo Preistorico Ed Etnografico Luigi Pigorini, Eur
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
New Zealand, National Library Internet resources
Peabody, Harvard
University of Hawaii, film
Vatican museums
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