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See also: List of Fijian flags: A cyan British Blue Ensign defaced with the shield of Fiji's Coat of Arms in the fly half. 1979 – Flag of Kiribati: 1979 – Flag of the Marshall Islands: 1978 – Flag of the Federated States of Micronesia: 1968 – Flag of Nauru See also: List of Nauruan flags: 1902 – Flag of New Zealand See also: List of ...
The Lapita were highly skilled navigators and agriculturists with influence over a large area of the Pacific. From about the 11th century Polynesians also arrived and mixed with the populations of the archipelago. Europeans first sighted New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands in the late 18th century.
David Hand (1918–2006) - first Anglican Bishop of Papua New Guinea J. Graham Miller (1913–2008) - from New Zealand and Australia, to New Hebrides Don Richardson (1935–2018) - from Canada, to Netherlands New Guinea
The islands were named by Captain James Cook in 1774 and subsequently colonised by both the British and the French. The two countries eventually signed an agreement making the islands an Anglo-French condominium that provided for joint sovereignty over the archipelago with two parallel administrations, one British, one French. [ 1 ]
The first known Europeans to sight New Guinea were probably Portuguese and Spanish navigators sailing in the South Pacific in the early part of the 16th century. In 1526–1527 the Portuguese explorer Jorge de Menezes accidentally came upon the principal island and is credited with naming it "Papua", after a Malay word for the frizzled quality ...
The only extant Roman vexillum is dated to the first half of the 3rd century AD and is housed in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. It is an almost square piece of coarse linen cloth with the image of the goddess Victoria. [12] Roman emperors used a banner similar in form called a labarum. It frequently bore upon it a representation of the ...
Samoa became the first pacific nation to gain independence in 1962. Nauru became second in 1968, followed by Fiji and Tonga in 1970 and numerous other nations in the 1970s and 1980s. The South Pacific Forum was founded in 1971, which became the Pacific Islands Forum in 2000.
The South Pacific, meanwhile, was almost completely uninhabited. Any present humans existed on the western fringes of the Solomon Islands . Then, around that time, these islanders were suddenly replaced by a new branch of humanity that originated from the Bismarck Archipelago off Papua New Guinea . [ 8 ]