The conditions at the Nauru detention centre were initially described as harsh with only basic health facilities. In 2002, detainees deplored the water shortages and overcrowded conditions. There was ...
The Australian Government passed legislation on 27 September 2001, with amendments to the Commonwealth Migration Act (1958). The implementation of this legislation became known as the Pacific Solution ...
"Timor" derives from timur, the word for "east" in Indonesian and Malay, which became Timor in Portuguese and entered English as Portuguese Timor. Leste is the Portuguese word for "east", resulting in ...
Papua New Guinea's Chief Minister, Mr Michael Somare, initially showed no outward concern at Bougainville's stand. The Roman Catholic Church, the most powerful organization in Bougainville, officially ...
A Spanish expedition from Peru under the command of ?lvaro de Menda?a de Neira discovered the island in the year 1568. Menda?a's subordinate, Pedro de Ortega Valencia, named the island after his ho ...
The first recorded sighting by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of ?lvaro de Menda?a on 16 April 1568. More precisely the sighting was due to a local voyage done by a small boat, in the accou ...
The Nggela Islands, also known as the Florida Islands, are a small island group in the Central Province of Solomon Islands, a state in the southwest Pacific Ocean.The chain is composed of the two main ...
The Japanese continued to experience problems in delivering sufficient supplies to sustain their troops on Guadalcanal. Attempts to use only submarines the last two weeks in November failed to provide ...
On 7 December 1941, Japanese forces attacked the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack crippled much of the U.S. battleship fleet and precipitated an open and formal state of ...
The Borneo Campaign of 1945 was the last major Allied campaign in the South West Pacific Area during World War II. In a series of amphibious assaults between 1 May and 21 July, the Australian I Corps, ...
On December 7, 1941, after failing to resolve a dispute with the United States over Japan's actions in China and French Indochina, the Japanese attacked the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. T ...
Advocates of preventive war have ranged from Posadist Communists, who argued for war to destroy capitalism, to western neo-conservatives such as George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, who argued that pre ...
Pearl Harbor was originally an extensive deep embayment called Wai Nomi (meaning, “pearl water”) or Pu?uloa (meaning, “long hill”) by the Hawaiians. Pu?uloa was regarded as the home of the dolph ...
The Solomon Islands consist of both volcanic islands of varying activity and of coral atolls. Bougainville Island is the largest in the archipelago.Climate The climate of the islands is tropical, howe ...
Main article: History of BougainvilleBougainville was first settled some 28,000 years ago from New Ireland. Three to four thousand years ago, Austronesian people arrived, bringing with them domesticat ...
