The westward intrusion of south Pacific water at the western tip of the New Guinea Island

ABSTRACT Measurement of ocean physical parameters using the CTD was conducted by deep water expedition INDEX-SATAL 2010 (Indonesian Expedition Sangihe-Talaud) in July-August 2010. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of water masses around the Sangihe Talaud Water where there was an entry passage of Indonesian throughflow (ITF) at the west pathway that passed through the primary pathway i.e., the Sulawesi Sea and Makassar Strait and the secondary pathway (east pathway) that passed through the Halmahera Sea. The analyses were performed by the method of the core layer and was processed with software Ocean Data View (ODV). The results showed that in the Sangihe Talaud waters there was a meeting water masses from the North Pacific and the South Pacific. The water mass characteristics in main pathway through the Sulawesi Sea was dominated by surface and intermediate North Pacific water masses and carried by the Mindanao Currents. While the Halmahera Sea water mass was dominated by surface and intermediate South Pacific water masses carried by the New Guinea Coastal Current that moved along the Papua New Guinea and Papua coast enters to the Halmahera Sea. Keywords: Index-Satal 2010, Northern Pacific Water Masses, Southern Pacific Water Masses, Sangihe Talaud

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WATER MASSES CHARACTERISTICS AT THE SANGHIE TALAUD ENTRY PASSAGE OF INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW USING INDEX SATAL DATA 2010

Jurnal Ilmu dan Teknologi Kelautan Tropis ◽

10.29244/jitkt.v6i2.9027 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ivonne M Radjawane ◽

Paundra P Hadipoetranto

Keyword(s):

North Pacific ◽

Water Mass ◽

Sea Water ◽

South Pacific ◽

New Guinea ◽

Water Masses ◽

Physical Parameters ◽

Coastal Current ◽

Indonesian Throughflow ◽

Pacific Water

ABSTRACT Measurement of ocean physical parameters using the CTD was conducted by deep water expedition INDEX-SATAL 2010 (Indonesian Expedition Sangihe-Talaud) in July-August 2010. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of water masses around the Sangihe Talaud Water where there was an entry passage of Indonesian throughflow (ITF) at the west pathway that passed through the primary pathway i.e., the Sulawesi Sea and Makassar Strait and the secondary pathway (east pathway) that passed through the Halmahera Sea. The analyses were performed by the method of the core layer and was processed with software Ocean Data View (ODV). The results showed that in the Sangihe Talaud waters there was a meeting water masses from the North Pacific and the South Pacific. The water mass characteristics in main pathway through the Sulawesi Sea was dominated by surface and intermediate North Pacific water masses and carried by the Mindanao Currents. While the Halmahera Sea water mass was dominated by surface and intermediate South Pacific water masses carried by the New Guinea Coastal Current that moved along the Papua New Guinea and Papua coast enters to the Halmahera Sea. Keywords: Index-Satal 2010, Northern Pacific Water Masses, Southern Pacific Water Masses, Sangihe Talaud

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THE FUTURE OF SURGERY IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

ANZ Journal of Surgery ◽

10.1111/j.1445-2197.1996.tb00822.x ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 66 (9) ◽

pp. 580-583 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

David A. K. Watters

Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

South Pacific ◽

New Guinea ◽

The South ◽

The Future

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Extract from "Life in the Southern Seas, or Scenes and Incidents in the South Pacific and New Guinea"

The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland ◽

10.2307/2842492 ◽

1890 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 469

Author(s):

W. Wyatt Gill

Keyword(s):

South Pacific ◽

New Guinea ◽

The South

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Six Oceania microstates: The genesis of media accountability

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v11i2.839 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 42-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Shailendra Singh

Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

Code Of Ethics ◽

Solomon Islands ◽

South Pacific ◽

New Guinea ◽

Pacific Island ◽

South Pacific Island ◽

The Media ◽

Pacific Island Countries ◽

Similar Body

Media accountability systems (M*A*S) have been slow to take root in Oceania. Apart from Papua New Guinea, Fiji is the trend-setter in the region. Following the establishment of the Fiji Media Council in the mid-1990s, several other South Pacific island countries were keen to the follow the lead. Tonga now has a similar body with a code of ethics and which includes public members empowered to receive and adjudicate on complaints against the media. In Samoa, a study has been carried out in order to establish a media council-type body. The Solomons Islands Media Council (SIMC) is an industry organisation that does not yet have a complaints procedure. It is considering including this mechanism in line with the Papua New Guinea Media Council with which it shares a website and has a cooperative agreement. This article examines the debate in six South Pacific island countries that have adopted, or are in the process of adopting, self-regulatory M*A*S mechanisms following government pressure. They are the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. The article also argues that there are other M*A*S that regional media can adopt besides media councils and this action would make it harder for governments to intervene and introduce regulation.

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Studies in Canarium urceus (Linnaeus, 1758) Part 3: new species from the western Pacific (Gastropoda: Neostromboidae: Strombidae)

The Festivus ◽

10.54173/f524345 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 345-358

Author(s):

Aart Dekkers ◽

Stephen Maxwell

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Papua New Guinea ◽

Geographical Distribution ◽

South Pacific ◽

New Guinea ◽

Western Pacific ◽

Eastern Indonesia ◽

North Eastern ◽

The Western Pacific

This study introduces four new species within the Canarium urceus complex. Canarium daveyi nov. sp. and the sympatric C. geelvinkbaaiensis nov. sp. from the region surrounding Geelvink Bay in north-eastern Indonesia, C. youngorum nov. sp. from the island of north-eastern Papua New Guinea, and finally Canarium manintveldi nov. sp from the southern South Pacific centred on Fiji and Vanuatu. These new species differ from, and are described based on, the morphology and geographical distribution from known species belonging to the C. urceus complex. This study comprises part three in a series examining the broader C. urceus complex.

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Modern and Pleistocene Reservoir Ages Inferred from South Pacific Corals

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200033853 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 319-335 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

G S Burr ◽

J W Beck ◽

Thierry Corrège ◽

G Cabioch ◽

F W Taylor ◽

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Keyword(s):

Papua New Guinea ◽

South Pacific ◽

New Guinea ◽

Easter Island ◽

The South ◽

Marquesas Islands ◽

Surface Ocean ◽

Reservoir Age ◽

Age Determinations

This paper presents radiocarbon results from modern South Pacific corals from the Marquesas Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea (PNG), and Easter Island. All of the measurements are from pre-bomb Porites corals that lived during the 1940s and 1950s. The data reflect subannual to multiannual surface ocean 14C variability and allow for precise, unambiguous reservoir age determinations. The results are compared with published values from other coral records throughout the South Pacific, with striking consistency. By comparisons with other published values, we identify 3 South Pacific regions with uniform pre-bomb reservoir ages (1945 to 1955). These are 1) the Central Equatorial South Pacific (361.6 − 8.2 14C yr, 2 σ); 2) the Western Equatorial South Pacific (322.1 − 8.6 14C yr, 2 σ); and 3) the subtropical Pacific (266.8 − 13.8 14C yr, 2 σ).

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