region:south pacific

First animated map ever? La première carte animée ? | (e)space & fiction

▻https://spacefiction.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/first-animated-map-ever

via Sébastien Caquard et Thierry Joliveau

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Is this the first animated map ever ? At least it is one of the first ones. It was created for a 1918 docudrama entitled Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific (Martin E. Johnson, 1918). An animated black line traces the journey of director Martin Johnson and his wife Osa from the New Hebrides Islands to the Solomon Islands in the South pacific.

Est-ce la première carte animée ? Vraisemblablement une des toutes premières. Elle a été créée pour un « docudrama » de 1918 intitulé Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific (Martin E. Johnson, 1918). Une ligne noire animée représente le voyage du réalisateur Martin Johnson et de sa femme Osa depuis les Nouvelles Hébrides jusqu’aux îles Salomon dans le Pacifique Sud.

#cartographie_animée

Dunkirk-style evacuation as Vanuatu volcano pollutes drinking water
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vanuatu-volcano/dunkirk-style-evacuation-as-vanuatu-volcano-pollutes-drinking-water-idUSKCN

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Vanuatu has launched a Dunkirk-style evacuation on the northern island of Ambae as a flotilla of boats rescues islanders from an erupting volcano that has polluted many of the island’s sources of drinking water.
[…]
About 1000 people were moved off the island over the 24 hours to Sunday evening with another 900 expected to leave tomorrow, Vanuatu’s National Disaster Management Office told Reuters in Ambae.

The Vanuatu Government wants all 11,000 islanders evacuated by Oct. 6.

Australia sent amphibious Bay Class landing ship HMAS Choules on Saturday to help move the population, and it is expected to arrive by the middle of the week.
[…]
The volcano is crowned by crater lakes. One of them, Lake Voui, is directly on top of the eruption making it dangerously explosive and posing the deadly threat of a lahar: a boiling mud flow down the side of the mountain, Macquarie University vulcanologist Christopher Firth told Reuters by telephone on Saturday.

Drowning mothers

As refugees try to cross the Mediterranean Sea - women are more likely to drown.

Women’s increased risk of death is not only true for the Mediterranean journey. The same lethal pattern can be seen along other borders. A major quantitative study of “border-crossing deaths” by Sharon Pickering and Brandy Cochrane focuses on precisely “where, how and why women die crossing borders”. Using data from 2012, well before the current crisis, Pickering and Cochrane surveyed deaths among female migrants in three areas of the world: in the Mediterranean on the way to the EU, in the Mexican desert on the way to the United States, and in the South Pacific for migrants sailing from Indonesia toward Australia.

On the ships, women and children are often placed below deck by their male family members in order to protect them during the crossing. But this location can quickly become a trap, often with tragic consequences. Rescue teams coming to the aid of capsized ships often find women and children who have suffocated from toxic exhaust fumes or drowned by incoming waters. Women often have poorer swimming skills compared to men, and their attempts to save their children often also lead to their higher risk of drowning. When rescuers discover drowned women, they often find them with heavier clothing that pulled them under the water.

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#femmes #genre #mourir_en_mer #morts_en_mer #mortalité #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Méditerranée #frontières

▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/sine-plambech/drowning-mothers

L’article scientifique auquel fait référence l’article publié sur Open Democracy :

Irregular border-crossing deaths and gender : Where, how and why women die crossing borders

In a global era of increased securitization of migration between the developed and developing world this article undertakes a gendered analysis of the ways women die irregularly crossing borders. Through an examination of datasets in Europe, the USA and Australia it finds women are more likely to die crossing borders at the harsh physical frontiers of nation-states rather than at increasingly policed ‘internal border’ sites. The reasons why women are dying are not clearly discernible from the data, yet based on the extant literature it is reasonable to conclude that gendered social practices within families, and within countries of origin and transit, as well as the practices of smuggling markets, are key contributing factors.

▻http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362480612464510
#USA #Australie #Europe
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From the Bottom of the Sea to the Operating Table - Issue 44: Luck
▻http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/from-the-bottom-of-the-sea-to-the-operating-table

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Corals are marine magicians. As colonies of the tiny ocean organisms grow, they transform the calcium that circulates in seawater into enormous limestone reefs. These reefs—which can extend for more than 1,000 miles and provide homes for crabs, eels, sea horses, and other aquatic creatures—are counted among the world’s great natural wonders. In the late 1960s, a pair of scientists at Pennsylvania State University decided to use a new, high-powered microscope to take a closer look at these remarkable coralline structures. What the two saw would launch an interdisciplinary team on a research odyssey from the shallow, tropical waters of the South Pacific to the modern hospital operating room, where their discovery is now helping surgeons repair patients’ damaged bones.TO THE BONE: Studies of (...)

How to Hide $400 Million
►http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/magazine/how-to-hide-400-million.html

In any given year, trillions of dollars sit safely in the offshore financial world, effectively stateless, protected by legions of well-compensated defenders and a tangle of laws deliberately designed to impede creditors and tax collectors. Even the United States government finds it challenging: A special Internal Revenue Service division known as the “wealth squad,” set up in 2010 to crack down on high-end tax evaders with multinational holdings, today has enough manpower to assess only about 200 cases a year.

[...]

This didn’t just threaten Oesterlund’s fortune. It also had the potential to carve open a portal into the world of offshore finance, a place that the global elite has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build and defend. In the offshore archipelago, their interests are hidden behind shell companies and trusts, their anonymity guaranteed under the law, from Delaware to the Bahamas to the South Pacific. James S. Henry, a former chief economist at McKinsey, calls the offshore financial world the “economic equivalent of an astrophysical black hole,” holding at least $21 trillion of the world’s financial wealth, more than the gross domestic product of the United States.

This darkness shields the tax-averse businessman and the criminal alike. Dictators use the offshore system to loot their own countries. Drug lords use it to launder money. As Gabriel Zucman, a University of California economist and an offshore expert, puts it: “They use the same banks, they use the same incorporation agents to create shell companies, they send money in the same ways.”

Rooting for the Favorite Is a Sign of Social Dominance - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/rooting-for-the-favorite-is-a-sign-of-social-dominance

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Over the first week of the Rio Olympics, an ancient narrative played out in the men’s rugby sevens tournament. Rising through a field of 12, the Fiji national team dispatched powerhouses New Zealand and Great Britain on its way to a gold medal, the first of any kind for the small South Pacific nation. Having defeated its former colonial ruler in the final match, an unexpected champion was crowned and this made a lot of people happy; in the Olympics, at least, people tend to cheer for an underdog. While it’s hard to imagine that everybody wasn’t thrilled by Fiji’s win, a recent article in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology suggests otherwise. The article’s authors, Serena Does from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Avital Mentovich from the University of Essex, found (...)

How a Powerful Obesity Gene Helped Samoans Conquer the South Pacific
▻http://gizmodo.com/how-a-powerful-obesity-gene-helped-samoans-conquer-the-1784266550

By studying the genomes of more than 5,000 Samoans, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh ha...

Five islands in Solomons submerged due to sea-level rise
▻http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/five-islands-in-solomons-disappear-due-to-sea-level-rise/article/464871

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Aerial and Satellite images show rising sea levels have caused five islands in the Solomons in the South Pacific to completely disappear, the first scientific evidence that confirms the dramatic impact of climate change on low-lying islands.

#climat #montée_des_eaux

Why Is “Survivor” Still on Television? - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/why-is-survivor-still-on-television

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I Will survive: A contestant poses at the ‘Survivor: South Pacific’ Finale & Reunion at CBS Television City on December 18, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. The survival of ‘Survivor’ into the present day is, among other things, a psychological curiosity worth investigating.Mark Davis/Getty Images Exactly four months and thirty-one days into what was, at that time, still being called “The New Millennium,” CBS aired the first-ever episode of Survivor. Bill Clinton was still in office, the NASDAQ Composite Index had just peaked at 5,048, and the twin towers still stood in New York City. Since then America has seen two wars, two presidents, an economic recession, the rise of the smartphone, the death of Boy Bands, and thirty more seasons of Survivor. Since its inception, the show has (...)

ISLAND GROWN
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/island-grown

Theres an island named Maui in the South Pacific that boast world class views, recreation, and climate. The climate on the island is perfect for agriculture and grows some of the best coffee in...

India reaches into the South Pacific to counter China - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/27/modi-a27.html

India reaches into the South Pacific to counter China
By John Braddock
27 August 2015

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted leaders from 14 Pacific Island countries at the second Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) in Jaipur, India on August 21. The Pacific Islands present were Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Eleven of the tiny island nations were represented by their heads of state or government, and the remaining three by foreign ministers.

#inde #chine #Pacifique

A Culture of Violence - Video - NYTimes.com

▻http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002595425/a-culture-of-violence-.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140116

Un reportage de 5 minutes sur la violence contre les femmes en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée

A Culture of Violence
By Carey Wagner January 15th, 2014

▻http://nyti.ms/1crNv2Z

In the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea, one of the world’s most violent places, nearly every woman has experienced some form of domestic abuse.

‘Tribal’ Reality #TELEVISION 2.0
▻http://africasacountry.com/tribal-reality-television-2-0

There was this sincere hope that we had seen the end of the so-called ‘tribal reality shows;’ that is television programs where groups of westerners spend some time with one of the ‘last remaining’ or ‘authentic tribes’ in the world. #Namibia or the South Pacific is a favorite destination. A sort of kitsch version of […]

#MEDIA #OPINION #Popular #African_tribe #Damara #living_museum #SBS6 #Welkom_bij_de_Kamaras

Whistleblowers expose unspeakable conditions in Australian refugee camps - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/25/manu-j25.html

Whistleblowers expose unspeakable conditions in Australian refugee camps
By James Cogan
25 July 2013

Horrific details have emerged about the conditions inflicted on refugees imprisoned by the Australian Labor government in its South Pacific detention camps on Manus Island, to the north of Papua New Guinea, and Nauru. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has responded by insisting there will be no turning back from Labor’s policy of indefinitely condemning asylum seekers to what are being described as “hell-holes” and “gulags.”

#migrations #réfugiés #australie #camps

Australian ruling elite prepares further military interventions into South Pacific - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/30/paci-m30.html

Australian ruling elite prepares further military interventions into South Pacific
By Patrick O’Connor—SEP candidate for the Senate in Victoria
30 May 2013

The Socialist Equality Party condemns the Labor government’s plans to step up the militarisation of the South Pacific, as revealed in its Defence White Paper this month, and warns workers and young people in Australia and the region that a new round of predatory interventions is being prepared.

The White Paper, the policy document that outlines Canberra’s current strategic and military agenda, underscores the extent to which Australian imperialism is committed to Washington’s so-called “pivot” to East Asia and the Pacific. The Obama administration is provocatively encircling and preparing for war against China in a bid to maintain Washington’s strategic domination over the entire region.

#pacifique #militarisation #australie #nouvelle-zélande

US seeks defence agreement with Maldives - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/21/mald-m21.html

US seeks defence agreement with Maldives
By K. Ratnayake
21 May 2013

The US is pushing the Maldivian government to sign a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to build military bases in the island country, which is in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is another significant move by the Obama administration in its aggressive “pivot to Asia” to militarily encircle China in the vast Indo-Pacific theatre.

et New Zealand to increase military presence in South Pacific - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/21/paci-m21.html

New Zealand to increase military presence in South Pacific
By John Braddock
21 May 2013

New Zealand is preparing to increase its military presence in the South Pacific, in close collaboration with the Australian government. The moves further align the two regional imperialist powers with the US Obama administration’s “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific and its aggressive confrontation of China.

#asie_pacifique #etats-unis #défense #géostratégie #nouvelle-sélande #maldives

Sandy Island ’A Mystery Of The Sea’ - science | Stuff.co.nz

Un peu plus de précision sur l’île mystérieuse du pacifique qui « aurait » disparu. Enfin, on sait pas pour l’instant...

►http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/7996357/Mystery-island-on-1908-map?cid=edm:stuff:dailyheadlines
KIRSTY JOHNSTON
26/11/2012

A team of Australian scientists discover that an island in the Pacific, which appears on maps and weather charts, doesn’t exist.
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OUT OF THIS WORLD: Sandy Island, marked on maps since 2000, is not there.

The mystery of a disappearing island in the South Pacific may have been solved by a curious librarian at Auckland Museum.

Until this week, Sandy Island was believed to sit between Australia and New Caledonia in the South Pacific, plotted on Google Earth, marine charts and world maps.

But when a team of Australian scientists sailed past the island’s supposed location on a recent research trip, the island was nowhere to be seen.

“We became suspicious when the navigation charts used by the ship showed a depth of 1400 metres in an area where our scientific maps and Google Earth showed the existence of a large island,” said Dr Maria Seton, a geologist from the University of Sydney.

“Somehow this error has propagated through to the world coastline database from which a lot of maps are made.”

The missing island has regularly appeared in scientific publications since at least 2000.

“Even onboard the ship, the weather maps the captain had, showed an island in this location,” Dr Seton said.

Sommet du Pacifique-Sud au Japon : un acte contre la Chine ?

►http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/japa-j11.shtml

Japan’s South Pacific summit directed against China
By John Watanabe
11 June 2012

The US last month participated for the first time in Japan’s triennial Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting. The summit was established in 1997 to advance Japanese strategic interests in the region and boost economic ties, particularly in the tuna and fishing industry. Now, however, for both Tokyo and Washington the primary purpose of the diplomatic forum is to bolster their efforts to undermine Chinese influence in the South Pacific.

The Sixth Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM6) was held on May 25 and 26 in Okinawa. Leaders and officials from Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) member states attended: Australia, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Fiji (currently suspended), Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

South Pacific islands face water crisis after six months of low rainfall | Environment | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/04/south-pacific-water-crisis-rainfall

Crops are wilting, schools have shut their toilets and government officials are bathing in lagoons because of a severe shortage of fresh water in a swath of the south Pacific.

The island groups of Tuvalu and Tokelau have declared emergencies, relying on bottled water and seeking more desalination machines. Parts of Samoa are starting to ration water.

Supplies are precariously low after a severe lack of rain in a region where underground reserves have been fouled by salt water from rising seas that scientists have linked to climate change.

Un article sur la pénurie d’#eau douce dans les îles du Pacifiques touchées par la sécheresse et l’élévation du niveau de la mer
#climat