Tubbataha Reef is one of the largest and best preserved reef systems in the world. Actually composed to two atolls‚ Tubbataha is far removed from any human settlement‚ it is a 92 mile boat trip from the city of Puerto Princessa. The marine park covers over 968 km² and is home to over 300 coral species and 400 fish species‚ rivaling the diversity of the Great Barrier Reef. The few pieces of atoll which are above water are also home to a large number of seabirds. It was inscribed on the UNESCO list of
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Climate refugee In 2011‚ IDMC reported that disasters such as floods‚ storms and earthquakes triggered the displacement of over 15 million‚ more than 90% of which were related to climate or extreme weather events. Displacement related to slow-onset disasters‚ including drought and long-term processes of environmental degradation and habitat loss displace many more‚ but is un-quantified. International Organization for Migration The links between climate change and migration‚ however‚ are complicated
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Marshall Islands: Atomic Bomb Testing AN350 - Usha Prasad Chaminade University Introduction This paper explores the documentation of the claims for diseases that were caused by nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. Many suggest that cancer and other diseases in these islands have been caused by the nuclear testing in the Pacific. I chose this topic because I was always interested in the overall culture of the Marshall Islands. I was raised in Guam‚ a United States
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30th Century Escape by Mark Kingston Levin begins in the 30th century a mile below sea level where Captain Jennifer Hero heads fifty members of a Secret Society of natural humans on a very important mission. Society consists of natural humans and Syndos who have enhanced DNA to make them stronger and physically superior but have no moral compass. Syndos have decided to wipe out the naturals and the naturals have a non-violent plan to prevent this happening by travelling back to the 27th century‚
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H. V. Trease‚ ed. Atoll Politics. Christchurch: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies‚ pp. 43‚ 44‚ 45. Brym‚ R. J. & Lie‚ J.‚ 2007. Sociology Your Compass for a New World. third ed. California: Thomson Wadsworth. Itaia‚ M.‚ 1979. Rebirth Te Mauri‚ Te Raoi‚ ao Te Tabomoa. In: KIRIBATI Aspects of History. Suva: Institutes of Pacific Studies‚ The University of the South Pacific‚ pp. 123‚124. Koae‚ T.‚ 1993. Corrupt and Illegal Electoral Practices. In: H. V. Trease‚ ed. Atoll Politics. Christchurch:
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Each of these is thought to be a stage in the development of the coral reef. (Birkeland‚ 1997). These include the fringing reefs‚ barrier reefs and atolls. Some scientists include a fourth type‚ the patch reef‚ as well. The most common type of ref is the fringing reef. Found very near to land they can often form a shallow area in the lagoon. When reefs are formed it is the fringing reef that is
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Banaue Rice Terraces The Rice Terraces in Banaue‚ Ifugao are considered to be the Eighth Wonder of the World. The terraces are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Approximately during the ministry of Jesus Christ on earth (over 2000 years ago)‚ the native people of Ifugao began carving the terraces of the mountains using merely their bare hands and sticks from the trees in the forests. The terraces were carved mainly to provide an area of land suitable for planting rice which is the staple
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A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of U.S. Navy Action and Operational Reports from World War II‚ Pacific Theater Part 1. CINCPAC: Commander-in-Chief Pacific Area UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of World War II Research Collections U.S. Navy Action and Operational Reports from World War II Pacific Theater Part 1. CINCPAC: Commander-in-Chief Pacific Area Command Project Editor Robert Ë. Lester Guide compiled by Blair D. Hydrick A microfilm project
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breeze‚ and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water‚ a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide‚ twenty miles in circumference‚ and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell‚ and from the deck of the schooner‚ across the slender ring of the atoll‚ the divers could be seen at work. But the lagoon had no entrance for even a trading schooner.
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Title: The Raft Author: S.A. Bodeen Pages:231 Girl named Robie and she’s 15. Max is a point and he’s almost 20. She lives on an island midway atoll in the middle of the pacific. She is going to go she her aunt in Hawii. So she gets herself a plane ticket to Hawii to see her aunt‚ and no one knows that she is going. She gets on the plane and they crash. They fall into the middle of the ocean and no one knows that
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