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Geology of the Limestone Islands, Palau, Western Caroline Islands
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Post-Lapita developments in the Reef-Santa Cruz Islands, southeast Solomon Islands
The Pacific is a world of islands, so human migrations are necessarily part of the story of this world. It is somewhat surprising therefore to find that there are so many points of contention among archaeologists, linguists and biologists about the role that migrations have played in producing …
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My geography of islands
There came a moment when the ground took on a newfound significance. At first I didn’t notice it amidst the mourning, and then it became all-consuming, an attempt to fill in the absence. Sometimes Island is ground in relation to water in relation to control. This site became my studio over the last …
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Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics
<p><italic>Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics</italic> confronts islands -at once as a problem, a concept, and a historical and mythical fact and product- by generating a tidalectical encounter between some of the ways in which islands have been imagined and used from without, primarily in …
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A theory of two strong islands
This thesis is dedicated to two strong island effects: The Subject Condition and The Adjunct Condition. Both effects can be unified under a single generalization, known as Condition on Extraction Domain, or CED (Cattell, 1976; Kayne, 1981; Huang, 1982): any maximal projection that is merged with a …
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US Virgin Islands renewable energy future
The US Virgin Islands must face drastic changes to its electrical system. There are two problems with electricity production in the USVI-it's dirty and it's expensive. Nearly one hundred percent of the electricity in these islands comes from imported diesel, brought in by ship. Expensive fuel and …
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Health and development in the Maltese Islands
… of health and development in the Maltese Islands, the prevalence of contemporary diseases is appraised with reference to the balance of forces between nations, classes and the sexes. The particular significance of imperialism, merchant capital and religion is discussed. Examination of …
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Settlement of the Kansai International Airport Islands
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The Southern Whale Fishery Company, Auckland Islands
… Enderby were granted a lease to the Auckland Islands in 1847 and subsequently based their whaling operation from there in 1849. The Company was undercapitalised for the project they were undertaking and a reduction in the abundance of Right whales in the South Pacific meant that whaling …
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Field Observations and Modeling of the 1957 Earthquake and Tsunami on the Islands of the Four Mountains, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Due to a lack of research in the Aleutian Islands, a comprehensive history of the Aleutian subduction zone is not developed; however, this study indicates that the Aleutian subduction zone is capable of generating magnitude ~9 earthquakes or larger in addition to trans-Pacific tsunamis. Comparison …
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Quaternary morphology and paleoenvironmental records of carbonate islands
… show that the presentday morphology of carbonate islands has developed largely in response to late Pleistocene sea level oscillations in addition to variable vertical motion and reef accretion rates. In particular, large amplitude ‘ice-house’ sea-level variability resulted in long lagoonal …
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The oligo-miocene sediments of the Maltese Islands
The Maltese Islands are situated at the south-western end of the Malta-Ragusa Rise, an area characterised by high gravity anomaly values and a ridge-like bathymetrical profile. The Islands lie 50-80km. south of Sicily and 282km. away from the north African coastline.The sedimentary sequence is …
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Practising politics in the Pacific islands : insider perspectives
… it has particular significance in the Pacific Islands where the influence of institutional transfer and the precepts of development tend to cast political practice, and by extension the politicians who undertake the job, as having been corrupted or diverted from their ideal purpose. Largely …
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