The World Wildlife Fund guide to extinct species of modern times: v.1: Birds of the Pacific Islands and North America--plants of the Hawaiian Islands--fishes of North America--mammals of North and South Africa--mammals of North America and the Atlantic Islands

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (03) ◽  
pp. 35-1276-35-1276
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
North America ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Hawaiian Islands ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
World Wildlife Fund ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
North And South

Zoogeographic Subregions of the Pacific Realm as a Background for Terrestrial Ecological Reserves: Part 2, Central and Eastern Regions, etc., with Conclusions

1980 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
Kai Curry-Lindahl
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Hawaiian Islands ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Part 2 of this paper reviews the situation in the Central and Eastern regions of the Pacific Realm as well as in the Pacific mainland coasts of Australia, North America, and South America. Table I lists the ‘Pacific Faunal Balance’ as far as vertebrates are concerned, and gives the number and distribution of existing national parks or nature reserves in each subregion. It shows that the Hawaiian Islands have been subjected to a high number of extinctions. In addition an even larger number of Hawaiian vertebrates are at present on the verge of extinction. Hawaii tops the lists of both extinct (24) and endangered (37) vertebrates. It is also evident from Table I that Pacific islands are much more vulnerable to vertebrate extinctions than are the Pacific coasts of Australia, North America, and South America. Not less than six subregions of Pacific islands show a higher number of extinctions than the east coast of Australia, and 16 subregions are affected by extinctions, while the western coasts of North and South America are not.

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
East Europe ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
North And South America ◽  
Multiple Languages ◽  
North And South

This book considers the global responses Woolf’s work has inspired and her worldwide impact. The 23 chapters address the ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, academics, reading audiences, and students in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and how her life is transformed into global contemporary biofiction. The 24 authors hail from regions around the world: West and East Europe, the Middle East/North Africa, North and South America, East Asia and the Pacific Islands. They write about Woolf’s reception in Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Russia, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, the United States, China, Japan and Australia. The Edinburgh Companion is dialogic and comparative, incorporating both transnational and local tendencies insofar as they epitomise Woolf’s global reception and legacy. It contests the ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ binary, offering new models for Woolf global studies and promoting cross-cultural understandings.

Aceria sheldoni. [Distribution map].

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Hawaiian Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Distribution ◽  
Distribution In Europe

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Aceria sheldoni (Ewing) Acarina: Eriophyidae (citrus bud mite). Attacks Citrus spp. Information is given on the geographical distribution in Europe, Crete, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Sicily, Spain, Yugoslavia, Asia, Cyprus, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, South Yemen, Syria, Turkey, Africa, Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Australia and Pacific Islands, Hawaiian Islands, North America, USA, South America, Argentina, Brazil.

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.

The Boat of the Dead in the Bronze Age

Antiquity ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 15 (60) ◽  
pp. 360-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. V. Grinsell
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Bronze Age

In many parts of the world and at many periods the practice has prevailed of depositing boats, or models or other representations of them, with the dead, either as a means of facilitating his supposed voyage to another world, or as a symbol of his maritime activities during his lifetime.That the former is generally the correct explanation of the custom there can be no doubt. This is shown by the evidence of the belief in a voyage to a future world, and the customs to which it has given rise, among living primitive peoples in the Pacific Islands and elsewhere, so well collected and presented by the late Sir J. G. Frazer. It is shown also by traditions such as that of our own king Arthur's journey by barge to ‘the island valley of Avilion, where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow’ It is shown also by the ancient Greek and Roman custom of placing a coin in the mouth of the dead to pay Charon's fee for ferrying him across the Styx.

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.

Status of Ordovician and Silurian Radiolarian Studies in North America

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Noble ◽  
J. C. Aitchison
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Middle Devonian ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Radiolarian Biostratigraphy ◽  
Orogenic Belts

Polycystine radiolaria that produce siliceous tests are known to range from Cambrian to Holocene. They have proven to be enormously useful in providing age control for siliceous marine sequences of Middle Devonian and younger ages, particularly for cherts and shales that are commonly devoid of other biostratigraphically useful fossils. The utility of radiolarian biostratigraphy became widely recognized in the 1970s and 1980s when it was applied in dating deformed marine siliceous sequences in orogenic belts around the world, most notably in Cordilleran North America and other areas along the Pacific rim (e.g., Jones and Murchey, 1986; Aitchison and Murchey, 1992; Ichikawa et al., 1990).

Teaching with Educational Technology

2006 ◽  
pp. 125-149
Author(s):  
Yukiko Inoue ◽  
Suzanne Bell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Leadership Education ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Preferences ◽  
Economic Injustice ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
Weather Change

The 21st century brings the Pacific islands unwelcome currents. Global economic integration will strip Pacific islands of trade preferences. Radical weather change, reef damage, and sea level rise will push natural resources toward extinction. To buck the tide, we do not need business-as-usual leaders. We need mould-breaking, heroic leadership. Education is key. We had better start teaching our kids political science from the cradle. In the next century, social ills rooted in economic injustice and flourishing in ethnic and religious strife will continue to generate desperation in the world’s poverty pockets. Instead of stirring clouds of human rights allegations, we must learn to live with the migrants and refugees fleeing to our shores. Television, the great leveller, homogenises cultural values in every corner of the world. Indigenous language erodes. Island cultures are swamped. The heroic leader will need a worldly education and a “bend-your-back for others” apprenticeship in traditional island service. (Bruce, 1998, p. 126)

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