Y?igo Ortiz de Retez (fl. 1545) was a 16th-century Spanish maritime explorer, who navigated the northern coastline of the Pacific - Melanesian island of New Guinea, and is credited with bestowing the ...
The four mainstays of the economy are agriculture, tourism, offshore financial services, and raising cattle. There is substantial fishing activity, although this industry does not bring in much foreig ...
Main article: History of VanuatuThe prehistory of Vanuatu is obscure; archaeological evidence supports the commonly held theory that people speaking Austronesian languages first came to the islands so ...
The Pitcairn Islands are a British overseas territory with a degree of local government. The Queen of the United Kingdom is represented by a Governor, who also holds office as British High Commissione ...
Main article: History of the Pitcairn IslandsThe mutineers turning Bligh and part of the officers and crew adrift from the Bounty, 29 April 1789The earliest known settlers of the Pitcairn Islands were ...
In the 19th century some Australian Catholics, living under a Protestant ascendancy, claimed that Queirós had in fact discovered Australia, in advance of the Protestants Willem Janszoon, Abel Tasman ...
Queirós (or Quirós as he signed) was born in ?vora, Portugal in 1565. As a young man he entered Spanish service and became an experienced seaman and navigator. In April 1595 he joined ?lvaro de Me ...
Writers from Solomon Islands include the novelists Rexford Orotaloa and John Saunana and the poet Jully Makini.Traditional Melanesian music in the Solomon Islands includes both group and solo vocals, ...
Solomon Islands is a constitutional monarchy and has a parliamentary system of government. Queen Elizabeth II is the Monarch of the Solomon Islands and the head of state; she is represented by the Gov ...
In 1568, the Spanish navigator ?lvaro de Menda?a was the first European to visit the Solomon Islands archipelago, naming it Islas Salomón ("Solomon Islands") after the wealthy biblical King Solomon ...
The Marquesas Islands do not have a provincial or regional assembly. Administratively, they form a deconcentrated subdivision of both the French central State and the government of French Polynesia. A ...
Main article: History of the MarquesasThe first recorded settlers of the Marquesas were Polynesians, who, from archeological evidence, are believed to have arrived before 100 AD. Ethnological and ling ...
Transport services in Tuvalu are limited. There are about eight kilometres of roads. The streets of Funafuti were paved and lit in mid-2002 but other roads are unpaved. Tuvalu is among a few countries ...
Main article: History of TuvaluSee also: Timeline of the history of TuvaluPre-history The origins of the people of Tuvalu are addressed in the theories regarding migration into the Pacific that began ...
Historian Brett Hilder has written of “ardent spirits in Peru, inspiring three Spanish voyages to the south west Pacific in the forty years from 1565 to 1605.” One of these ardent spirits was certa ...
