The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda : Pulmonata : Pupilloidae): Systematics, distribution and origin

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1085 ◽  
Author(s):  
BM Pokryszko
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Shell Sculpture

The Gastrocoptinae of Australia are revised on the basis of over 13 000 specimens from nearly 600 localities. Of 23 nominal species 12 are synonymised; Gastrocopta stupefaciens, sp. nov., and G. solemorum, sp. nov., are described, making a total of 13 species. A key to the species is provided. Pumilicopta Solem, 1989 is reduced to subgeneric rank. Eleven of 13 species are endemic to Australia, one to Australia and New Guinea, and one is recorded from Australia and some Pacific islands. The gastrocoptines inhabit only coastal areas and the 'Red Centre'; only three species are exclusively southern. Relationships with extralimital taxa, based on derived characters of apertural barriers and shell sculpture, indicate that the gastrocoptines colonised Australia at least four times from Asia and adjacent islands. The first immigration may have taken place in the mid-Miocene.

Trusteeship Council

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-550
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
General Assembly Resolution ◽  
New Item

The fourteenth session of the Trusteeship Council was held at United Nations headquarters from June 2 to July 16, 1954. At the opening meeting Miguel R. Urquía (El Salvador) was elected president and Léon Pignon (France) vicepresident. The Council accepted an Indian proposal to include a new item in the agenda of the fourteenth session: “General Assembly resolution 751 (VIII): revision of the Questionnaire relating to Trust Territories: interim report of the Sub-Committee on the Questionnaire”, and subsequently adopted an agenda of 18 items. The greater part of the session was devoted to the examination of annual reports on the administration of the trust territories of Somaliland, the Pacific Islands, Western Samoa, New Guinea, and Nauru; a number of questions referred to it by the General Assembly were also dealt with by the Council, which in its closing meeting decided to defer until the Council's fifteenth session a decision on a French proposal that at least one of the Council's annual sessions should be held at Geneva.

Ceroplastes destructor. [Distribution map].

1960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
North America ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Shade Trees ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Southern Rhodesia ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Ceroplastes destructor Newst. (Homopt., Coccoidea) (White Wax Scale). Hosts: Citrus, coffee, various fruit and shade trees. Information is given on the geographical distribution in AFRICA, Bechuanaland, Congo, British Cameroons, Kenya, Madagascar, Nyasaland, San Thomé, Southern Rhodesia, Sudan, Tanganyika, Uganda, Union of South Africa, AUSTRALASIA and PACIFIC ISLANDS, Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, NORTH AMERICA, Mexico, U.S.A.

Dysdercus sidae. [Distribution map].

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
New Hebrides ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Dysdercus sidae Montr. (D. insular is Stål) (Hemipt., Pyrrhocoridae). Host Plants: Cotton, kapok, Hibiscus spp. Information is given on the geographical distribution in AUSTRALASIA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS, Australia, Fiji, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Niue, Papua & New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Wallis Islands, Irian Jaya.

The Decolonisation of the Pacific Islands

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 173-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Aldrich
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The United States ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
American Samoa ◽  
Caroline Islands ◽  
Foreign Control

At the end of the Second World War, the islands of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia were all under foreign control. The Netherlands retained West New Guinea even while control of the rest of the Dutch East Indies slipped away, while on the other side of the South Pacific, Chile held Easter Island. Pitcairn, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Fiji and the Solomon Islands comprised Britain's Oceanic empire, in addition to informal overlordship of Tonga. France claimed New Caledonia, the French Establishments in Oceania (soon renamed French Polynesia) and Wallis and Futuna. The New Hebrides remained an Anglo-French condominium; Britain, Australia and New Zealand jointly administered Nauru. The United States' territories included older possessions – the Hawaiian islands, American Samoa and Guam – and the former Japanese colonies of the Northern Marianas, Mar-shall Islands and Caroline Islands administered as a United Nations trust territory. Australia controlled Papua and New Guinea (PNG), as well as islands in the Torres Strait and Norfolk Island; New Zealand had Western Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau. No island group in Oceania, other than New Zealand, was independent.

35,000-year-old sites in the rainforests of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Antiquity ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (260) ◽  
pp. 604-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Pavlides ◽  
Chris Gosden
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Tropical Rainforest ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Northwest Pacific ◽  
Open Site ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Layers ◽  
New Britain

The growing story of early settlement in the northwest Pacific islands is moving from coastal sites into the rainforest. Evidence of Pleistocene cultural layers have been discovered in open-site excavations at Yombon, an area containing shifting hamlets, in West New Britain's interior tropical rainforest. These sites, the oldest in New Britain, may presently stand as the oldest open sites discovered in rainforest anywhere in the world.

What was the vegetation in northwest Australia during the Paleogene, 66–23million years ago?

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. Macphail ◽  
Robert S. Hill
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
First Record ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Dry Conditions

Fossil pollen and spores preserved in drillcore from both the upper South Alligator River (SARV) in the Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory and the North-West Shelf, Western Australia provide the first record of plants and plant communities occupying the coast and adjacent hinterland in north-west Australia during the Paleogene 66 to 23million years ago. The palynologically-dominant woody taxon is Casuarinaceae, a family now comprising four genera of evergreen scleromorphic shrubs and trees native to Australia, New Guinea, South-east Asia and Pacific Islands. Rare taxa include genera now mostly restricted to temperate rainforest in New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, South-East Asia and/or Tasmania, e.g. Dacrydium, Phyllocladus and the Nothofagus subgenera Brassospora and Fuscospora. These appear to have existed in moist gorges on the Arnhem Land Plateau, Kakadu National Park. No evidence for Laurasian rainforest elements was found. The few taxa that have modern tropical affinities occur in Eocene or older sediments in Australia, e.g. Lygodium, Anacolosa, Elaeagnus, Malpighiaceae and Strasburgeriaceae. We conclude the wind-pollinated Oligocene to possibly Early Miocene vegetation in the upper SARV was Casuarinaceae sclerophyll forest or woodland growing under seasonally dry conditions and related to modern Allocasuarina/Casuarina formations. There are, however, strong floristic links to coastal communities growing under warm to hot, and seasonally to uniformly wet climates in north-west Australia during the Paleocene-Eocene.

Scirtothrips dorsalis. [Distribution map].

1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Flower Thrips ◽  
Scirtothrips Dorsalis ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood [Thysanoptera: Thripidae] Chilli thrips, flower thrips, yellow tea thrips, Assam thrips Polyphagous, attacks grapevine, rubber, tea, castor, strawberry, Capsicum (chilli), tamarind, groundnut, soyabean, asparagus, citrus, mango, passionfruit, etc. Information is given on the geographical distribution in ASIA, Bangladesh, Brunei, China, Hongkong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, AUSTRALASIA, AND PACIFIC ISLANDS, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands.

Mortars and Pestles Make the Mid-Holocene Occupation of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago Visible

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Swadling
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago ◽  
Land Clearance

Stone mortars and pestles are distributed across New Guinea, but few have been found in West Papua. As they are now securely dated to the Mid-Holocene, their distribution can be used as the basis for modelling Mid-Holocene population concentrations. Artefacts with elaborate morphologies also allow the modelling of social interaction. The declining availability of the Castanopsis nut following land clearance would have played a major role in the abandonment of mortars and pestles in the highlands. Decreasing coastal connectivity due to the infilling of the Sepik-Ramu inland sea may have also played a role in this abandonment. The continued availability of canarium and coconuts in coastal areas allowed the making of nut and starch puddings to continue. However, the pottery bought by Austronesian speakers (Lapita) would have allowed tubers to be steam-cooked, and the softer result probably led to stone versions of mortars and pestles being abandoned and replaced with wooden versions.

The World’s Oldest Tsunami Victim at the Gateway to the Pacific—and Beyond

Tsunami ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
James Goff ◽  
Walter Dudley
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Mass Graves ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Settlement Abandonment

The 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami was a significant puzzle for scientists who finally cracked the cause, but it also marks the most recent event of many that can be dated back to at least 6,000 years ago where the skull of the oldest tsunami victim in the world was found. Papua New Guinea was also the starting point for the most remarkable navigational feat in the world, with Polynesians moving rapidly east into the Pacific Ocean, their settlement of the region being punctuated by hiatuses caused by catastrophic tsunamis approximately 3,000, 2,000, and 600 years ago. It was on isolated Pacific islands that humans first came into contact with the deadly Pacific Ring of Fire. Settlement abandonment, mass graves, and cultural collapse mark their progress.

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