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1787-1830 - Botany Bay. The first fleet of eleven ships led by the HMS Sirius left Portsmouth in May 1787 with 736 convicts, 188 of them women. From 1788-1810 1,000 people a year went from prison ships to Botany Bay. Between 1811 and 1830 many convicts were sent to Australia. Changes to the law said what was and was not a crime. (Convicts NZ M Wright ©2012).

1787 – 1861 – The first convicts were sent to Australia with the first fleet in 1787. Transportation ceased in 1861, but the sentence was only abolished twenty years later. Sentence of transportation. But they left a trail. (The people detective ©2001 T McGregor UK).

1787 – 1867 - Transportation registers HO11 for Australia. (Practical family history August 2009)

13 May 1787 – Arthur Phillip set sail with 11 ships to Botany bay Australia. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

1788 – 1842 – A list of convict arrivals in New South Wales. (Findmypast.com Australia. Practical family history August 2009)

1788-1850 – John S Levi and George FJ Bergman. Australian genesis. Jewish convicts and settlers 1788-1850 Hale 1974.

1788 – 1868 – More than 4,000 orphans were sent to Australia from workhouses in Ireland. Transport of convicts from Ireland to Australia 1788-1868 beginning in 1791. All transport registers before 1836 were destroyed. (How to trace your Irish ancestors ©2008 Ian Maxwell UK).

1788-1900 – From 1788 to 1899 in NSW there were 2,112 deaths of “unknown” men, women and children, half of these deaths were between 1880 and 1900. (Janet Reaker How to trace your missing ancestors ©2000 Australia).

January 1788 – A British fleet commanded by Captain Arthur Phillips of the Royal Navy, carrying officials and 579 convicts, guarded by marines, arrived in Botany Bay Australia. Discovered by Captain James Cook in 1770. (Family tree mag Sept 2010 UK)

January 1788 – Among the convicts on the first fleet, arriving in Botany Bay was Thomas Harwell. He was sentenced to seven years transportation, for stealing two small things. James Grace aged 11 and John Wisehammer aged 15. The youngest boy shipped to Botany Bay on the first fleet was John Hudson at nine years old. (Family skeletons ©2005 R Paley and S Fowler UK).

1791-1853 – Government assisted schemes such as the emigration of workhouse inmates to Australia from the UK. 5,000 adults were sent in 1847. Between 1791 and 1853 up to 50,000 convicts were transported from Ireland to Australia. (How to trace your Irish ancestors. ©2008 Ian Maxwell UK).

1800s – Early 1800s, Goulburn Sydney was a garrison town, police patrols and highwaymen. A stockade for convicts, penal colony prison for 200 convicts. (Mr Asia. James Diamond Jim Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

1801-1814 – Australian convicts. Charlotte Green was twice convicted in 1801 for burglary and sentenced to transportation for life. She landed in Sydney on the “HMS Glatton” in 1803. Convicted to Sydney, Thomas Hyndes, convicted of highway robbery also sentenced to life. He could read and write. In 1806 Charlotte and Thomas were married in St Philips church by rev Samuel Marsden. Thomas was granted a pardon in 1912 and Charlotte in 1814. (Heritage NZ. Winter 2012 p5).

1803 – Sydney Australia “HMS Glatton” a convict ship. (NZ Heritage, winter 2012).

1803-1956 – Trove. Australian newspapers, books and photos. Archives.govt.nz world war one. Workhouses.org.uk childrens homes.org.uk (Who do you think you are mag June 2015 UK).

1804 – In 1804 Irish convicts rebelled against their captors west of Sydney, Vinegar Hill. Dozens of the convicts were hanged or sent to Norfolk island 1,000 miles off the NSW coast. (The great shame Irish ©1998 Thomas Kenealy).

September 1810 – In March 1810, 131 female convicts on the ship “Canada” from the UK for a long sea voyage. Six months at sea and the “Canada” reached Botany Bay in Australia September 1810. (Practical family history. July 2003 UK).

Between 1815 and 1929 – 12,000 convicts were transported to Australia. (Practical family history. August 2009)

1815-1829 – From 1787, Between 1815 and 1829, 12,000 convicts were transported to Australia. (Family history. August 2009 p58).

25 April 1815 – Jacky Guard (male), was transported from England to NSW Australia, for a seven year sentence, for stealing a quilt. Sydney 25 April 1815 on the transport ship “Indefatigable”. In 1820 he went to sea on the “Lynx” sailing to southern oceans. (Trackless sea. ©2008 Megan Hutching).

1821 – The female factory opened in 1821 at Parramatta, it was meant to house 300 women, it held 887 women and 405 children, corruption was rampant, orphans schools in Parramatta were run by sisters of charity. Children taken by force from women. (The great shame Irish ©1998 Thomas Kenealy).

1828 – 1899 - Workhouse inmates from the Channel islands, Jersey and Gernsey. 1,230 emigrants to Australia (Practical family history. February 2010).

January 1828 – 194 female convicts on the “Elizabeth” arrived in Australia. (Australia family tree. Sept 2010)

1829-1831 – James Gilbert was master of the female convict ship “Edward” from Cork in 1829, In 1831 the “Edward” brought 153 male convicts from Cork to Sydney losing 5. (The great shame Irish ©1998 Thomas Kenealy).

1829-1984 – Queesland registry. Births, deaths, marriages and divorces. Indexes 1829-1915. 1940-1984. (Who do you think you are mag. June 2015 UK).

1830 – The Armstrong’s came to the colony in the ship “Gilmore” and others came in the “Rockingham” with his mother Miss Leeder in 1830. Rockingham took its name from the ship. (Western pioneers ©1980 Australia JE Hammond).

1830-37 – In 1837 Mr Joseph Cooper and his father walked from Fremantle to Mandurah. They arrived in the colony in the ship “warrior”, in 1830 and spent the first seven years in Fremantle and the following ten years in Mandurah. (Western pioneers ©1980 JE Hammond).

1830-1851 – Gold was discovered outside Melbourne. Strzelecki and the other Polish explorers Lhotsky in 1830s. A boy in Melbourne in 1849 had 35 ounces of gold found in the bush. Gold was also found in June 1851 near Bathurst. (The great shame Irish ©1998 Thomas Kenealy).

1830-77 – About 12,500 convicts were locked in Tasmania during this time. (timeline internet).

1833 – In NSW in one month 2,000 out of 28,000 convicts were convicted and 9,000 lashes were ordered by magistrates in Tasmania. 1,250 convictions of 4,250 lashes ordered for 15,000 convicts.(Ironback resources.com).

2 march 1834 – The “Permelia” to Sydney, convicts from Ireland. The “Fairlie” a larger ship with more than 300 English convicts had nearly arrived. The Sydney Gazette report said. (The great shame Irish ©1998 Thomas Kenealy).

1835 – 1897 – Burial and memorial inscription info for Victoria. (Findmypast.com Practical family history. August 2009).

July 1835 – The “Neva which left Cork in early 1835 with 150 Irish women convicts and over 50 of their children, in July in Bass strait the “Neva” struck a rock, all but 20 of the female convicts and all their 59 children were drowned. (The great shame Irish (C)1998 Thomas Kenealy).

1836 – Mr Edward Hamersley BA came out to Australia in the later months of 1836, he left the UK. His home “Pynton”, on the Swan just out from Guildford, had horses. (Western pioneers. ©1980 Australia JE Hammond).

1839-1850 – Book MSU press USA. ISBN 9780870136238 American citizens, British slaves. Yankee political prisoners in an Australian penal colony 1839-1850. Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell Stewart. In 1840, 82 Americans were transported from Canada to a British penal colony in Tasmania. Political prisoners, penal transportation as a tool of political repression. 31 Oct 2002 Michigan state uni press.

1840 – Sydney to Otago NZ “Magnet” ship

July 1840 – William Anderson worked his way to South Australia as a ships carpenter. The ship reached South Australia in July 1840, the two men deserted. They stole peas from a shop and lived on them for 3 weeks and hid in the Adelaide hills. William Anderson married 4 August 1821 and had 16 children. (Practical family history. July 2003 UK)

5 October 1840 – Immigrants on the “Champion” which left Liverpool on 5 May 1840 and arrived in Sydney on 5 October 1840 with assisted immigrants. (Australia family tree. Sept 2010)

1847 – Mr Cooper senior built the flour mill on the shore of the estuary at Mandurah. He was killed at Clarence just as the work was completed. Coopers two sons carried on the work of the mill. (Western pioneers. ©1980 JE Hammond).

1847-1885 – NSW Australia registers of police employees. (NZ society of genealogists inc. Nov-Dec 2011 p252).

1848 – The earliest electoral roles for NSW were completed in 1848. The right to vote was restricted, only male property owners and rich men were allowed to vote. (Janet Reaker. How to trace your missing ancestors. ©2000 Australia).

1849-1850 – Worthy of reclamation index to probationary convicts to Sydney and Morton bay. Australian genealogical education centre Kiama council Australia.

1849-1914 – In 1849 letters from the UK to Australia took up to 5 months to arrive, even in 1914 the London to Sydney post took a month. (Family history monthly. March 2004 p18-19).

1850 – Ronald Parsons. Ships of Aust and NZ before 1850 parts 1 & 2 Parsons South Aust 1983.

1851 – William Samuel Southgate was born in Williamston Vic Australia.

1852-1899 – The public record office of Victoria has a database of emigrants between 1852 and 1899 when they arrived and the ship they were on. (Family history monthly. August 2003 p62).

1852-1923 – Passenger lists Victoria Australia outwards to New Zealand. Gold miners moving. A CD Trade me $30 ISBN 9781877217517

1853 – 1852 a labour shortage in the Australian colonies, immigrants were rushing to the gold fields. One of several McKenzie families from Morefield Scotland. William McKenzie aged 36, his wife Mary, married early in 1853. Ullapool Scotland emigrants. They had a daughter Isabella born during the voyage to Hobart Australia. (Migration. Rod Edmond ©2013 NZ).

1854 – Elizabeth Jane Southgate was born in Williamston Vic Australia.

1855 – Edward Hammond. Hardgraves Australia and its gold fields. London . H Ingram and co.

1856-1862 – Martin Cash, convict, policeman and brothel keeper moved to NZ from Hobart Australia in 1856. In 1860 he was in Christchurch NZ as a constable in the Canterbury province armed police force, which he joined in 1859. His main line of work was ‘brothel keeping’. His identity and activities were ‘eventually’ investigated, in march 1860 Cash was sacked and fined for keeping a brothel. Many others like him moved to NZ after the decline of the Australian goldfields. Martin Cash retuned to NZ by December 1862 and continued operation of several brothels in Christchurch NZ red light district and Salisbury st including the Red house. Moved to the Otago gold fields then returned to Christchurch NZ. (p35 A peoples history. ©1992 NZ).

1857 – Victoria and the Australian gold mining in 1857. By William Westgarth. London Smith Elder and co Cornwill.

1858 – 250 Chinese migrants to Australia on the “St Paul” from Hong Kong. Shipwrecked on New Guinea. (Asia making of NZ. H Johnson B Moloughney).

1858-1895 – James John would have been 2 and a half years old at the census in June 1841. On 16 December 1845 William married a second wife, Mary Ann Dunford. They lived in Helston UK. Mary Ann her step son, James John aged 19, her three other children took off to Australia on the “Stamboul” They arrived in Adelaide on 1 February 1858. The Australian gold rush of 1851 Ballarat mining from Cornwall. William died 12 June 1895 Salisbury Adelaide St Johns cemetery.

16 Jan 1859 – Adelaide Pryor, female was born in Adelaide SA Australia.

1860 – Natives of Vanuatu were kidnapped as slaves, for sugar and cotton plantations in Queensland Australia and Fiji (8 July 2011).

1861 – Melbourne to Port Chalmers Otago NZ “Oscar” ship.

1862 –68 – The year of the great flood in Perth 1862 The William street jetty was submerged in the flood for several days. Pinjarra people 1862 after the floods no food could be transported from Perth or Fremantle. Boiled wheat or potatoes were used instead of bread. They went to Perth in 1868 in a bullock wagon owned and driven by Mr Key. Workmen on the lead mines were Cornishmen who could sing well. Narra Tarra lead mines. (Western pioneers. ©1980 Australia JE Hammond).

1862 – 1869 – When the Duke of Edinburgh visited western Australia about 1869 a group of Pinjarra volunteers went to Perth for his reception. The Pinjarra volunteer force began in 1862 and existed for 20 years the author’s family was a member of the force. (Western pioneers. ©1980 Australia JE Hammond).

1863-1870 – Six American’s prospected Keysbrook for gold and found some on Mr Key’s property and in Drakesbrook three miles near Serpentine. Men who forced the Wanless company who got a concession for cutting and exporting timber from Jarrahdale about 1869-70. (Western pioneers. ©1980 Australia JE Hammond).

1863-1879 – Mary Anne Warner. Passenger lists for ships that arrived in Sydney between 1863 and 1879. More than 5,500 have been indexed. (Family history monthly. August 2003 p62).

1863 – 1904 – Queensland historical atlas exploitation. Between 1863 and 1904 62,000 south seas islanders were brought to Australia to work in the sugar industry. Several ports on the eastern coast. (Sugar slaves by Imelda Miller ©22 October 2010).

March 1863 – Mr A Raper city of Hobart to Otago NZ. (Public records office Victoria Aust )(15 July 2013).

1865-1965 – A century of childcare. Ballarat orphans asylum. Ballarat orphanage www.cafs.org.au.

21 May 1865 – Sarah Williams was born in NSW Australia.

12 Dec 1867 – Murder of gold escort in Queensland. Wanganui Herald NZ.

15 Nov 1868 – br D Fursey Bodkin was born near Tuam county Galway in Ireland. One of 4 Christian brothers to land in Melbourne. Br Ambrose Treasy, order of Catholic Christian brothers in Australia. Br Barnabus Lynch and Joseph Nolan.

1869-1947 – South Australian police gazette index compendium. Info on police, criminals and victims of crime. (Australian family tree connections. Sept 2010 p44).

1870 – Messrs Franck and Edward Wittenoom went to the Mirchison in 1870 and took up farming. Their station was the largest in the colony in those days. They had to transport their wool and supplies about 200 miles. (Western pioneers. ©1980 Australia JE Hammond).

1871 – Charles John Mangan was born in Melbourne Victoria Australia.

1871-89 – Mr Vernon Hamersley, a son of Samuel R Hamersley was born at Guildford in 1871. He started farming at York in 1889. When gold was discovered he spent time prospecting then returned to York He had a seat in parliament and was a member of the WA Historical society. (Western pioneers. ©1980 Australia JE Hammond).

1873-75 – Hardship, John Evett Hammond and the Clarkson party near the Gasconyne river in 1874. March 1875 Geraldton Joseph Clarkson went to the north west in 1873 just after the floods in Perth. Began pearling with native divers. Brought a schooner. He built buildings with money he earned in the pearling industry in 1874. (Western pioneers. ©1980 Australia JE Hammond).

1874 – Melbourne to Otago New Zealand “Alhambra” ship.

1874 – The first Italian consul in Australia Giuseppe Biagi in Melbourne in 1874. Liugi Marinucci in 1874. (Alan Poletti).

25 July 1874 – “Gipsy” did not arrive in Eden after leaving Sydney on 25 July 1874. No trace of the ship or crew was ever found. (Australia family tree. Sept 2010)

1877 – Mr C Buggins and the author went to Mt Erin to assist in building additions to a station at Mt Erin 32 miles north of Geraldton about 30,000 acres. In later years the government brought Mt Erin for sub divisions. (Western pioneers. ©1980 Australia JE Hammond).

1879 – Ship “Marpesia” From Liverpool to Melbourne. (Australia family tree. Sept 2010)

1879 – Winifred Moore was born in Melbourne Vic Australia.

1879 – 1906 – About 60,000 South Sea Islanders were brought to Queensland by Blackbirders to be slaves on sugar plantations. Sugar cane farmers seeks recognition for buried slaves. The Queensland sugar industry was built on slavery. (7 December 2012 ABC net au Tony Eastley).

11 March 1879 – In the 1870’s the south Australian government imported two hopper barges, the “Kadina” and the “Goolwa” from Scotland. The “Goolwa” 139 tons built in Glasgow. Its master was Captain Finch. The “Goolwa” left Glasgow on 8 August 1878.made port in Adelaide on 11 March 1879. (Western pioneer. ©1980 JE Hammond).

3 Sept 1883 – Assisted immigration. The “Assaye” from England to Sydney 3 Sept 1883. Under quarantine due to whooping cough outbreak, not released until 8 Sept 1883. (Australia family tree. Sept 2010)

1884 – www.ballarat.vic.gov.au In the 1920s the orphanage lost control of the land on which the. 9 Nov 2012 Ireland superintendant Ballarat district orphanage 1884.

14 Feb 1884 – Ship left Plymouth England for Australia the “Chyebassa” was owned by the British India steam navigation company. (Australia family tree. Sept 2010)

1886 – Victorian shipping index Melbourne the ship “Iberia” (Australian family tree. Sept 2010)

1886-87 – St Joseph's college. Gregory Terrance Brislan went to Melbourne. Principle Catholic Christian brothers was br Bodkin.

1887 – The annual report of the south Australian welfare department contains info on orphanages or children homes that were operating each year. The department library has reports dating back to 1887. (Janet Reaker How to trace your missing ancestors. ©2000 Australia).

15 March 1889 – Sydney ship “Ormuz” Immigrants went to the sugar cane industry in Nerang Berowa area of Queensland. (Australia family tree. Sept 2010)

18 March 1891 – Opium in Australia. Auckland Star NZ. Papers Past.

8 Dec 1891 – Opium in Australia. Ashburton Guardian NZ. Papers Past.

1892 – Donald Fraser was born in Queensland in 1892. In 1914 Fraser was charged with a sex assault on a teenage girl in NZ. On 17 Nov 1933 in Christchurch, Riccarton NZ unsolved murder. (Shot in the dark. Scott Bainbridge ©2010 NZ).

17 September 1894 – Raper. Sydney to NZ. (NZ immigration passenger lists 1855-1973) (15 July 2013).

26 October 1894 – Raper. Sydney to NZ. (NZ immigration passenger lists)

1 November 1894 – Raper. Ship “Tasmania” Sydney. British born 1849 aged 45 female. Auckland NZ. (14 July 2013).

12 June 1895 – William Pryor died in Salisbury Adelaide SA Aust.

1897 – The PM of south Australia attended Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. (Who do you think you are. May 2013 UK).

1898-1929 – Director of the Catholic Christian brothers orphanage at Clontarf western Australia. Mr Bodkin.

4 March 1899 – Cyclone Mahina hit Cooktown Queensland. More than 300 people were killed. (Today in history. Chch Star NZ. 4 March 2015).

Coal and ore miners came from many depressed parts of England, notably Cornwall. During the first 30 years of Victoria’s rule Australia and NZ received one million migrants from the UK. By 1869 the colonial commissioners had assisted more than 300,000 UK citizens to emigrate mainly to Australia. In the year gold was discovered in Australia 1852. The use of a penalty to transport was revived in 1788 upon the founding of a penal colony in Australia. The Fry fleet of ships left Portsmouth for Botany bay with 1,493 passengers, including 586 males and 192 female convicts. For the first 50 years of the new colony’s history about 40% of population were convicts. (Oxford guide to family history David Hey ©1993 p98)

Official UK statistics record only 485 migrants to Australia and NZ in 1825, then a rise to 32,625 in 1841. Between 1825 and 1851 222,955 British people emigrated voluntarily to Australia and NZ. Australia’s fortunes were built on sheep farmers and the lure of gold. By 1851 its population was 437,665. By 1858 the population reached one million. By 1877 it was two million and by 1889 it passed three million. 612,531 Australians who in 1861 were recorded as born in the UK. Records of convict ships 1788-1842. Lists of convicts 1788-1820 the registration of births marriages and deaths in Australia began between 1841 and 1856. The census returns were destroyed in Australia. (Oxford guide to family history David Hey ©1993).

Pacific research

PACIFIC

1826 – Methodist missionaries arrived in Tonga from Australia. (Timeline internet).

1860 – Natives of Vanuatu were kidnapped as slaves for sugar and cotton plantations in Queensland Australia and Fiji. (8 July 2011).

10 Oct 1874 – Fiji became a British possession. (Chch Star NZ. 10 Oct 2014 p11).

1876 – The log of Thomas Andrews, govt agent on the five month labour voyage of the “Jessie Henderson”, from Fiji to the Solomon islands to New Hebridies in 1876 has survived. Fiji archives. (NZ genealogist March April 2012 p64).

1879-1906 – About 60,000 south sea islanders were brought to Queensland Australia by “Blackbirders” or slaves for sugar plantations. 7 Dec 2012 ABC net.au Tony Eastley. Sugar cane farmer seeks recognition for buried slaves.

1879-1919 – Indo Fijian history. Indians in Fiji 1879-2004. Sugarcane plantations from 1879-1919. (NZ genealogist May June 2011).

14 May 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian slaves arrived in Fiji. Leonidas. (Wikipedia 14 May 2015).

31 Jan 1885 – The Solomon islands. Auckland Star NZ. Papers past.

1893-1898 – In 1893 American sugar planters with the US minister in Honolulu. US marines and sailors toppled Hawaiian Queen Lilinokalani, and installed American Sanford Dole, a cousin of the pineapple magnate James Dole as president, the US annexed Hawaii in 1898. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US)

11 July 1902 – The coronation celebration in Fiji. ODT NZ. Papers past.

20 Feb 1929 – American Samoa became a territory of the US. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 20 Feb 2015).

1 Nov 1952 – The US reconstructed a small part of the earths surface, by detonating the first thermonuclear device, on a Pacific atoll, which did not survive the blast. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 Nov 1952 – The first US thermonuclear test, on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok. The blast incinerated birds in flight for miles around, singed feathers and burned birds. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 March 1954 – The US detonated its largest thermonuclear device, over Bikini atoll on the 1 March 1954. The BRAVO test. 15 megatons, it caused a 250 feet deep crater a mile cross, and a fireball for two miles from the test site. Radiation fallout spread hundreds of miles, causing the first human casualties from the H bomb era. 28 Americans, 236 Marshall islanders and the crew of a Japanese fishing boat were exposed. The boat was the Fukuryu maru, fishermen got ill and died. Radiation levels. Nov 1952 test, BRAVO explosion. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 March 1954 – US oil supplies as the US was beginning to import lots of oil. The first US test of an H bomb at Faniwatok atoll. 15 megatons, it was over 1,000 times greater than the bomb dumped on Hiroshima Japan. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009 US).

1957-58 – Atomic nuclear tests. Victims got compensation from Fiji. British colony, nuclear tests on Christmas island in 1957 and 1958. (Independent UK. Rob Hastings. 31 Jan 2015).

15 May 1957 – At Malden island in the Pacific. The UK tested its first hydrogen bomb. In 'Operation Grapple'. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).

11 May 1962 – An underwater nuclear test by the US during “Operation Dominic”. Pacific coast off California. Pbs.twimg. Pinterest.

11 Sept 1966 – France's nuclear test at Muruora island. (Chch Star NZ. 11 Sept 2015. Today in history).

1968-76 – Christian brother Ian Robert Carroll in PNG Fatima Banz. Working with Street kids. He lived in PNG for 26 years. Catholic paedophiles.

25 Nov 1969-1971 – Plague, Malaria and vaccine experiments on humans. On 25 Nov 1969 pres Nixon put and end to all US biological warfare, and ordered the US arsenal to be destroyed. Deadly biological weapons to kill and incapacitate. In 1971 on the atoll in the south Pacific called Johnston island, Red Hat operation. Johnston atoll where chemical agents were leaking VX. (Operation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen (c)2014 US).

1970s – Book Body of secrets by James Bamford. “Operation Ivy Bells” in the early 1970s. NSA submarines in the sea of Okhotsk tapped cables connecting the Soviet Pacific naval fleet base in Petropavlovsk to its HQ in Vladivostok. Divers from the USS Haliburt sent tapes with recordings to NSA HQ. Info on the Soviet Pacific fleet. Tapping undersea fibre optic cables and collecting info. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert ©2013 Canada).

1973 – Nuclear tests and NZ protesters in the Pacific. Wayne Thompson. NZ Herald. Radiation health studies. French tests on the Polynesian atoll. Muruoa atoll. 2 Aug 2015.

1976 – Roger Dingman. Power in the Pacific. The origins of naval armed limitation 1914-22. Chicago uni of Chicago press.

1976 – Christian brothers at Nukutere college Rarotonga. br Simon Germaine Coughla. Catholic paedophiles..

March 1978 – Terry Clark, Maria Muhary, sister Angelique and Jim Shepherd went to Fiji, March 1978. Before Rabuka’s military takeover. The Fiji island of Taveuni. The Fiji trip, they met up with Chinese Jack Choo and Martin Johnstone at the Regent hotel in Nadi. The NZ police rugby team was at the hotel and they moved to the Hyatt hotel. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

March April 1978 – A meeting in Fiji in March or April 1978 at the Roget hotel in Nadi. Terry Clark, Chinese Jack Choo, Martin Johnstone and Jim Shepherd. Chinese Jack Choo was related by marriage to Khun Sa. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

1980s – New Zealand businessman Bruce Judge and Adriadne corp, financial services. The Cook islands when it collapsed. Bruce Judge set up his own shell company through the Cook islands trust company Willard ltd. Bruce Judge's Adriadne and the National Commercial bank of Saudi Arabia, NCB linked to BCCI. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

6 March 1981 – France conducts a nuclear test at Muruora island. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 6 March 2015).

Late June 1981 – Michael Hand fled Australia under a false identity, that of a butcher, Alan Glenn Winter, on a flight to Fiji in late June 1981. He spent a week in Fiji, false beard and mustache, then went to New York City, Nugan Hand bank, money laundering for the CIA. (Wiki. Nugan Hand bank). (The anals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

1983-86 - European Pacific bank in the Cook islands. National bank of Rarotonga. 18 Oct 1986 laundering money through New Zealand. Cook islands trust corp. Robert C Allen was a businessman and CIA agent. A CIA front company called Bishop Baldwin Dillingham Wong ltd. Ray Cline went to New Zealand in 1986. NZ Times Nov 1984. Honolulu Hawaii and Bishop Baldwin and co, a CIA proprietery and front compay went bankrupt in August 1983. (The paradise conspiracy.Ian Wishart. (c)1995 NZ).

1985 – East Timor violations of human rights, executions, disappearances, torture and political imprisonment 1975-1984. book. Worldcat database Amnesty int. London UK.

1985-86 – BNZ. European Pacific investments. Rarotonga tax haven. Cook islands. Winston Peters, Tonga, US and UK 26 Nov 1986. Armin Matti a Swiss bullion trader. Samir Bashout aka Khalaf Bashout. Cook islands govt. In Nov 1985 Bashot, American and the Cook islands. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ)

1985-1994 – 14 Jan 1986 Cook islands. 2 Feb 1986. 30 Nov 1985. Chase Manhattan bank, fraud. Commercial bank of commerce, an entity subsidiary of BCCI. BCCI collapsed in July 1991, fraud, money laundering, drug and gun running. Rarotonga BNZ. European Pacific bank. BCCI and Commerical bank of comerce in Rarotonga 1994 winebox, Winston Peters. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

1986-1994 – Another piece of the puzzle. A letter 4 April 1986 Cook islands offshore bank. European Pacific banking corp. NZ gold bullion trader Ray Smith. Bankrupt and jail in 1994. In the Cook islands in the mid 1980s, 12,000 tonnes of gold for Marcos in the Philippines. Goldcorp and a bogus gold mine in the Cook islands. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart. (c)1995 NZ).

1987 – Lagaga. A short history of western Samoa. Malama Meleisea. Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea. Google books.

1987 – Tropical Cyclone Uma hit Vanuatu, 48 people died and 5,000 people were made homeless. A category 4 storm. (The Guardian UK 13 March 2015).

Jan 1987 – 1986 Brierley investments ltd BIL, merchant banking. Fay Richwhite tax haven bank and Rarotonga. European Pacific bank. European Pacific investments. Luxembourg stock exchange. BNZ listed on NZ stock exchange in Jan 1987. Cook islands tax haven. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

July 1987 – The 1987 false tax certificates prepared for Australian billoinaire Alan Bond's company in the Cook islands. The Cook islands minister of police was Norman George. Brierley investments, crooked politics in the Cook islands. False tax certificates, secret accounts and bank laws. Mr Norman George and promisory notes. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

29 July 1987 – Magnum corp and 3 Japanese banks. Mitsubishi, Fuji and Sanwai. BNZ loans to Japanese banks through Bermuda based tax haven companies, The Cook islands govt and bogus tax credit certificates. Cook islands officials and European Pacific. False tax certificates. Rarotonga, Michael Fleming was head of the Cook islands dept. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

25 Sept 1987 – A second coup in Fiji, was led by maj gen Sitiveni Rabuka. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 25 Sept 2015).

25 Nov 1987 – Charles Sturt from the NZ Serious fraud Office. Equiticorp and Alan Hawkins. Cook islands witholding tax, fake tax certificates. David Lloyd and European Pacific. David Richwhite and Paul Collins. Brierley investments. Peter Travers BNZ and Magnum corp. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

1989-1997 – br Anthony Roberto Gherardi taught at Nukutere college Avarua Cook islands Catholic Christian brothers, paedophiles.

20 April 1989 – NZ Herald. Interpol. Swedish tourists Auckland to the Cook islands planned a flight on 20 April 1989. They never made the flight. (Missing pieces. Swedish tourist murders. Ian Wishart. (c)2012 NZ).

Lots missing here.

4 Feb 1994 – Serious Fraud office NZ. European Pacifc and Citibank 6 Nov 1992 Charles Sturt 22 Dec 1993 the winebox. Winston Peters and Stephen Lunn. 4 Feb 1994. A Cook islands based company owned by BNZ, Brierley investments and Merchant bank Fay Richwhite. Tax departments in Australia, NZ and Japan. A lot of money. (The parafdise conpsracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

16 March 1994 – Winston Peters, tax haven Cook islands. Winebox and Tony Ryall, BNZ staf fand European Pacific. David Lloyd. Record keeping 16 March 1994 Cook islands Norman George. Rarotonga. Don McKinnon. International money laundering and cover up of crimes. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

1995 – The French government continues testing of nuclear devices at Moruroa Atoll. On 20 July 1995, 6 Aug 1995 PM NZ Jim Bolger. Boats to Rarotonga 18 Aug 1995. Cook islands Moruroa Tahiti. Previous nuclear tests. French boats, planes and helicopters. An orange hue tainted the sky over Moruroa atoll, the French had exploded a nuclear device. (Peter Williams QC ©1997 NZ)

1995 – Documents showing money launderng and former CIA, US Defence dept people in the Cook islands as employees. Lawrence John Fahey aged 54 an American advisor to Sir Tom Davis. Ties with InterAir, a Nevada based airline, linked to arms smuggling during Iran Contra. William Raupe a CIA veteran of the Vietnam war, USAID. US embassy in Suva Fiji. (The paradise conspirasy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

1995 – The Cook islands govt and 12 letters to pay $100 million to a Bahamas shell company. The Cook islands government was at least $1 billion in debt. NZ was giving the Cook islands $13 millioin a year in foreign aid. An Italian hotel ptoject. A court was burned down and destroyed. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

17 July 1998 – New Guinea 2,100 people were killed in a 7 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

17 July 1998 – Papua New Guinea tidal wave. 7 quake. Solomon islands 3,000 people were killed. Malol Arop Otto Sissano. Timeline of earthquakes.

17 July 1998 – Three tsunamis, caused by an earthquake, rose 30 feet, destroying 7 villages in Papua New Gunea. The death toll was about 4,000, half the local population. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

27 Nov 1999 – Mass graves found in Timor. John Aglionby. The Guardian UK.

21 Dec 1999 – Mass graves found in East Timor. John Aglionby. The Guardian UK.

2000 – 357kg heroin was found in Suva Fiji, worth $100 million. One of the worlds largest ever drug seizures. Trans shipment through Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz 22 Dec 2014).

24 Oct 2000 – Fiji asks New Zealand to warn about visits by paedophiles. Leah Haines. Dominion Wellington NZ. Paedophiles travel to Fiji, travel and extradite.

30 Oct 2000 - $100m heroin haul. Drugs destined for Australia, in Fiji. Illawarra. Wollongong. NSW. Fiji on drugs charges.

16 Nov 2000 – Papua New Guinea tidal wave. 8 earthquake. one person died and 5,000 people were made homeless. Timeline of earthquakes.

8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer. Sydney Morning Herald. Drugs and people smuggling. Mr Mick Palmer.

8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific paradise for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer Adelaide. Sydney Morning Herald NSW. Organised crime groups are targeting the south Pacific, trans national crime syndicates.

4 July 2001 – East Timor militia leaders. Timorese Socialist party. BBC London UK. Political party Timorese Socialist party PST.

28 Sept 2001 – Australian police, Vanuatu for heroin cache. Ben Bohane. Port Villa. Sydney Morning Herald. Peter Bong. AFP. Bob Lehman.

9 Sept 2002 – Papua New Guinea 3 people were killed when a tidal wave hit and 40 homes were washed away. Timeline of earthquakes.

31 Oct 2002 – Vanbdhana Pritika Jeet disappeared in Fiji. She disappeared when she was 18 years old. Missing person.

17 December 2002 – Fears of a coup and renewed violence, sparked by disgruntled police, who fired on the PM’s home in Honiara. New Zealand born … Lloyd Powell and others fled the country on a chartered plane. (Christchurch Press AFP Kiwis flee Solomon islands.)

23 December 2002 – PM pays extortionists. Australia criticised Solomon islands PM, Sir Allen Kemakeza, for using public money to pay more than $A 360,000 to police, who were extorting him. We have made the point that the Solomon islands government cannot give in to extortion. New Zealand and Australian police were trying to restore law and order. (Christchurch Press AFP)

11 Oct 2003 – Samoa warns no leniency for foreign paedophiles. BBC London. Lilu Vaomalo Kini, paedophiles.

2004 – Suva Fiji a factory, chemicals to make $1 billion worth of meth. Hong Kong and Malaysians were arrested. Exporting meth. Six New Zealand police officers went to Suva Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz. 22 Dec 2014).

9 Aug 2004 – Chinese Communist party invites Vanuatu PM to Beijing. BBC London UK. Central committee of the Chinese Communist party vice minister Mr Zhang Zhijun.

22 or 27 November 2004 – Vanuatu stolen aid. Australia has expressed concern about trans-national crime in Vanuatu and the implications for regional security, lawlessness and deeply entrenched corruption. PM Serge Vohor visited Taiwan to sign a military agreement to grant Taiwan official diplomatic recognition in spite of Vanuatu’s recognition of China. Australian aid to Vanuatu is being stolen by the government. No money was going to the people. Australia threatened to cut aid. Pm Serge Vohor refused to take part in Australian diplomatic talks in Port Vila. (AFP Christchurch Press).

27 November 2004 – Takiveikato was found guilty on three charges of inciting a mutiny. On 2 November 2000 in which rebel soldiers tried to kill military commander Voreque Bainimarama. (The Fiji Times Christchurch Press AFP).

2 December 2004 – A report the Pacific is viable, written by Australian national university professor Helen Hughs, was released by the centre for independent studies. The report suggests policy changes, including abandoning communal land ownership for individual property rights and freeing up labour markets. Aid to the Pacific region was more than $1.5 billion a year. (Christchurch Press NZPA).

10 Dec 2004 – Paedophiles top online crime threat. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Online paedophiles are a threat on the internet, British.

21 April 2005 – Illegal fisheries part of organised crime. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Organised Asian crime syndicates.

12 May 2006 – Organised crime claim. Sheila Lasibori. Papua New Guinea Post Courier port Morsbey. Asian organised crime transnational crime int TNCU.

15 Sept 2006 – Officials confirm threats. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morseby. Malaysian and Chinese triads are operating in the country.

18 October 2006 – Fiji PM warns of a coup threat.

1 November 2006 – Commodore Bainimarama is in Iraq. He told the Fiji Sun newspaper, the EU, Australian, NZ and US. Governments had been deeply corrupt and unconstitutional practises by the Qarase led government. (Stuff NZ news Michael Field).

20 November 2006 – International criminals are said to have laundered billions on the island of Nauru in the past ten years. The US accused Nauru of selling large numbers of false passports. (VOA Phil Mercer Sydney).

27 November 2006 – Tension grows with coup alert. There was clear evidence that the military chief was planning to stage a coup within two weeks. (Fiji Pacific).

19 Feb 2007 - US to stage biggest anti-terrorist exercise on Guam. The worlds biggest anti-terrorism exercise will be held this year on Guam. Underscoring the Pacific islands groups importance to Washington. Exercise TopOff4 is part of a series of large scale moves, to strengthen the US ability to respond to terrorist attacks involving WMD. William Marhoffer the US coast guard commander in Guam said the TopOff4 exercise would be bigger than last years Valiant shield war game in which the US, 30 ships, 280 aircraft and 22,000 military personnel. (Washington Times 19 Feb 2007. Cable gram. Agence France presse)

6 March 2007 - Vanuatu PM Ham Lini state of emergency. Port Vila ethnic clashes left two men dead and eight others in hospital. Armed police arrested more than 100 people. Dozens of armed personnel from the Vanuatu mobile forces made arrests for unlawful assembly, assault and property damage said police spokesman Willie Ben (Christchurch Press AP).

2 May 2007 – Papua New Guinea parliament votes to allow casinos and internet gambling. BBC London.

3 May 2007 – PNG bets on casinos The Daily Telegraph Surry hills NSW. Passed a law allowing casinos and internet gambling PNG.

7 Feb 2008 – Foreign drugs now on the streets in PNG. Pearson Kolo. Papua New Guinea Port Morsby, cocaine.

28 March 2008 – Organised crime business in the city. Papua New Guinea Post. Courier. Port Moresby. Organised crime international.

15 April 2008 – Asian mafia has grip on PNG. Daniel Kumbon. Papua New Guinea Post. Port Morsbey. Chinese mafia, Triads, already in PNG. Canada and Australia.

5 June 2008 – Fiji forum, Pacific transnational crime. BBC London. Cocaine and heroin.

6 June 2008 – Transnational crime a threat. Verenaisi Raicola. The Fiji Times Suva. Cocaine and heroin.

17 June 2008 – Sophisticated crime shows triads. Papua New Guinea Courier Port Morseby. Chinese triads entering country.

19 Aug 2008 – Niue meeting told transnational crime a threat in Pacific. BBC London Cocaine heroin.

29 Sept 2009 – Samoa islands 8.3 earthquake and tsunami. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

29 Sept 2009 – 8.3 earthquake and tsunamis in Samoa 136 people were killed dozens of people were missing. Timeline of earthquakes.

30 Nov 2009 – State Human trafficking. Timoci Valu The Fiji Times Suva. International human trafficking.

23 Dec 2009 – Paedophile Roderick Robinson aka MacDonald was due to face trail in NZ on 3 counts of sex attacks on 2 girls under 12. 3 to 8 Nov 2008 in Hamilton New Zealand. Trial was due 31 May 2010. He fled to Fiji before 23 Dec 2009. False passport? (TVNZ 23 Oct 2014).

2010 – Palermo in the Pacific. Organised crime in the Asia Pacific region. Andreas Schloenhardt ebook Martinus Nijhoff pub (Worldcat database).

4 Jan 2010 – Tsunami in the Solomon islands 1,000 people were made homeless. There were 8 earthquakes since 3 Jan. 7.2 earthquake in Gizo. Timeline of earthquakes.

5 Jan 2010 – Triads after PNG shooting. The Australian national. Organised crime, triads Chinese migrants.

25 March 2010 – Chinese stunned. PNG Post Courier. Papua New Guinea. Chinese triads are sponsoring candidates in the 2012 election.

25 March 2010 – Triads in PNG politics. The Australian national. Asian triads are sponsoring candidates for next election.

19 May 2010 – Loopholes allow trafficking. Shareen Chand. The Fiji Times Suva. Sex trafficking of children. Sexploitation. Iris McKenzie. Sex trafficking is mistakenly called willing prostitution.

22 June 2010 – US demands action on child trafficking. The Fiji Times Suva Child trafficking in Fiji.

16 Dec 2010 – New Zealand spied on the Fiji military. Wikileaks cables show. Stuff.co.nz. Michael Field.

February 2011 – Elder Perry creates the first LDS stake in Guam. (Ensign p78).

30 March 2011 – AFP Fiji police operation results in cocaine bust. PAC news Suva. Importing cocaine into Australia from Fiji.

26 May 2011 – NZ police detective, Mark Franklin, was arrested and charged with drug dealing in Rarotonga. (Political kiwi).

5 July 2011 – Sex trafficking is a huge problem in the northern Marianas. Pacnews Suva. Sex trafficking victims in Pacific countries.

16 July 2011 – Two casinos have opened in Samoa. Kate Chapman The Press Christchurch. First casinos to be built in Samoa, license one on each of Samoa’s main islands.

18 July 2011 – Samoan casinos forbidden for locals. Pacnews Suva.

21 Oct 2011 – 7.6 earthquake in Tonga. Timeline of earthquakes.

9 Feb 2012 – Ecuador. Police in Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of cocaine in January 2012, in diplomatic mail sent to Italy. Two suspects were arrested. Crates inspected by police dogs before leaving Ecuador, travel to Italy through a third country (AP 2/9/12 timeline internet).

17 April 2012 – 7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.

7 November 2012 – Big gold and silver find in the waters off Tonga. Nautilus mineral mining company. (TVNZ Stuff.co.nz Michael Field)

16 Nov 2012 – Body, cocaine haul find on yaught, 200kg cocaine destined for Australia. Found on yaught on a Pacific atoll. ABC Sydney.

16 November 2012 – Cocaine and a corpse was found on an Australian bound yacht. In Tongan waters. (Lisa Martin AAP.The Australian).

16 November 2012 – Corpse and cocaine, worth $120 million, was found on a shipwrecked boat in Tonga. Suspected to be from Ecuador. (The Vancouver Sun AP Sydney).

16 November 2012 – The Pacific’s largest cocaine haul was found on a yacht in Vava’u Tonga. From Ecuador bound for Australia, the US DEA said in August 2012. Organised crime syndicate and a dead body was on the boat too. (Matangi Tonga online).

16 November 2012 – Nauru police charged 15 Iranian asylum seekers with doing damage on the island. (Herald Sun).

16 Nov 2012 – Tonga police uncover massive cocaine haul. TVNZ yacht in Tonga with a dead body on board a cargo of cocaine.

19 Nov 2012 – World bank approves $US1.8 million grant for Tonga. Matangi Tonga online.

23 Nov 2012 – Australia defends tough media detention centre restrictions. VOA Sydney, Papua New Guinea and Nauru media are banned.

6 Feb 2013 – 8 earthquake on the Solomon islands and a tsunami. 9 people were killed and homes were destroyed. Timeline of earthquakes.

17 April 2013 – 6.8 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.

22 August 2013 – Australian police seized a huge cocaine haul in the Pacific. Fox news. 750kg yachts trafficking drugs in the south Pacific.

23 August 2013 – Vanuatu police snare record cocaine haul in Port Vila harbour. 600kgs of cocaine with the Australian federal police. Radio NZ int.

23 August 2013 – AFP probe Australian links to Vanuatu drug boat 750kg. news.com.au.

23 August 2013 - $425 million worth of cocaine was seized from a Vanuatu yacht. NZ Herald. US and Australian agents. Stuff.co.nz, 750kg cocaine on a yacht in Vanuatu hidden under concrete

24 Aug 2013 – Vanuatu, huge drug haul. Dominion Post Wellington NZ p4.

16 Oct 2013 – 7.1 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of Earthquakes.

2014 – Solomon islands flooding and earthquakes, disaster.

1 April 2014 – PNG transnational crime. PNG Papua New Guinea. Crystal meth worth $US 20 million..

2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Alleged interference in Vanuatu citizenship.

2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Malnutrition Pacific poverty. Severe malnutrition in the Pacific region especially children

21 Aug 2014 – Truth of shooting still murkey. Fiji police investigation shows a video of men shot at sea, a Somalian pirate hijacking.

23 Aug 2014 – Human trafficking UN. Uni of Guam sex trafficking. Pacific daily news www.unwht.org

30 Aug 2014 – Radio NZ. Unemployment and poverty are major factors in the Pacific. IMF. Fiji Times reports.

17 Sept 2014 – TVNZ One news. 6.7 earthquake hits Guam. Minor damage and power cuts.

17 Sept 2014 – Reuters 7.1 earthquake strikes Guam. Manuel Mogato and Nick Macfie.

17 Sept 2014 – Guam earthquake 6.7 in Lalate St Louis. ABC news.

19 Sept 2014 – Guam police officer was charged with sexual assault. San Francisco Chronicle Hagatna Guam AP. Charged the police officer with misconduct and sexual assault.

30 Sept 2014 – Sydney Morning Herald. Sex abuse and rape threats. Nauru asylum seekers. Threats by guards. Sarah White. Michael Gordon. Detention centre.

12 Oct 2014 – Unions in Tonga threaten strikes over the cost of living. Radio NZ. Trade unions and public servants, Tonga strikes.

20 Oct 2014 – Crime syndicate busted, 9 people were charged with drugs and a gun. Involved in a drug syndicate which imported drugs from Papua New Guinea. Meth. Australian police, crime ring linked to cannabis in Queensland. (ABC Australia).

22 Oct 2014 – New Zealander, Labour MP Shane Jones becomes Nauru’s new High Commissioner to the small island state. Waatea news.com.

22 Oct 2014 – Papua New Guinea Bouganville government begins a missing persons policy. ICRC press release. Port Morsbey Red Cross, missing person cases.

23 Oct 2014 – NZ union backs charity educating Fiji workers. Radio NZ. A charity backed by NZ unions in Fiji workers struggle.

30 Oct 2014 – UN hears Fiji police brutality is not new. Radio NZ. Assault in police custody is not new in Fiji. Police corruption and brutality.

31 Oct 2014 – Corruption in Papua New Guinea. Crawford school of public policy. Australia national university.

31 Oct 2014 – Billy Ginger Hanson aged 9 who disappeared from Seattle US with his father is found. Daily Mail. Found on a remote island in the South Pacific 5,500 miles from home.

1 Nov 2014 – Australia to invest $8.8 million in Fiji. The Australian. Funds over 4 years. Australia new aid policy. Foreign minister Julie Bishop.

2 Nov 2014 – Quake hits off Fiji. Stuff.co.nz. 5.3 earthquake.

2 Nov 2014 – 6.9 earthquake off Tonga. ABC online. South Pacific west northwest of Tonga north east of Ndoi island in Fiji.

8 Nov 2014 – Earthquake Papua New Guinea 6.4 or 6.6 or 6.9. ABC Australia widely felt.

10 Nov 2014 – Australian riot police in the Solomon islands for elections. Radio NZ. More than 90 police were flown in to cover next weeks elections.

12 Nov 2014 – PNG police say corruption is widespread. Radio NZ. Papua New Guinea.15 MPs are currently under investigation.

13 Nov 2014 – Military news in the Pacific and Ukraine show Russia is back. The Australian. Convoy of Russian warships in international waters north of Australia. Jared Owens The Times UK. AFP.

17 Nov 2014 – Independent commission needed in Solomon islands to tackle corruption. ABC Australia.

1 Dec 2014 – Armed men held passengers captive, ransacked the offices of Papua New Guinea’s second largest airport. ABC Australia. Liam Cochrane. Nadzab airport, broke into a safe, the Air Niugini safe. The men escaped.

13 Dec 2014 – Missing people. Fiji Times. Increase in the number of people reported missing in Fiji in recent days.

22 Dec 2014 – Heroin found in Fiji $20 to $30 million worth of heroin was found in quad bike tyres. A man was arrested. Stuff.co.nz. Heroin found in quad bike tyres.

22 Dec 2014 – The Fiji Times online. Police FRCA raid uncovers $30 million worth of heroin. Timoci Vulc. Heroin hidden in a container. Tyres of a quad bikes, heroin consignment from China.

23 Dec 2014 – Fiji’s biggest heroin bust. Radio NZ $25 million worth at Fiji’s Latoka wharf, the largest heroin seizure in Fiji. One person was arrested. Fiji Sun online. Fiji Times. Businessman to appear in court, a 40 year old.

28 Dec 2014 – Democrat Akilisi Pohiva is Tonga’s new PM. Radio NZ. He was elected ‘by the parliament’ in Tonga.

30 Dec 2014 – Big volcanic eruption near Tonga’s capital. Michael Field. Stuff.co.nz.

31 Dec 2014 – New eruption at Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apei. Wired. Erik Klemetti.

2015 – Radiation is killing the Pacific. Fukushima Japan. Dr Apsley, videos on YouTube. Amazing discoveries. No date. TEPCO has been pumping contaminated water into the Pacific ocean. 1 Aug 2014. David Gutierrez. National news.

8 Jan 2015 – 11 people are missing at sea in Papua New Guinea. PNG Today. Three children are included. A search is underway.

23 Jan 2015 – Vanuatu 7 earthquake reported on Twitter.

24 Jan 2015 – Thousands protest in PNG over the police shooting of young man. Radio NZ. Hanuabada police HQ in PNG, police shooting of a young man.

31 Jan 2015 – Atomic nuclear tests on Christmas island in 1957 and 1958. A British colony. Victims got compensation from Fiji. (Independent K. Rob Hastings.)

31 Jan 2015 – 1957 and 1958 British nuclear tests, Christmas island. Mirror UK. Susie Boniface.

5 March 2015 – The Guardian UK. Toby Manhire. New Zealand spies on the Pacific for NSA’s Five Eyes says Edward Snowden.

13 March 2015 – Vanuatu in lockdown for cyclone Pam, superstorm, a category 5 storm. Cellphone and other networks down. Flooding and landslides. At 4pm trees were beginning to be uprooted. Cave systems in Tanna and Erremanga. People in the Solomons sheltered in caves. (Radio NZ int).

13 March 2015 – BBC UK Cyclone Pam news.

13 March 2015 – SBC Australia APP Flooding in Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu as cyclone Pam strengthens.

13 March 2015 – The Guardian UK. Joshua Robertson. Cyclone Pam, a massive storm bearing down on Vanuatu. 260,000 people in its path. Port Vila in lockdown, a category 5 storm.

13 March 2015 – Radio NZ int. State of emergency in Tuvalu. Cyclone Pam flooding washing away homes and damaging grave sites.

13 March 2015 – Radio NZ Int. Cyclone Pam in the Solomon islands. People are seeking shelter in caves. Category 5 storm destroyed homes. Extensive damage to homes. Tikopia lost 90% of its food crops and fruit trees. Water is contaminated. All phone lines are down.

15 March 2015 – Newstalk ZB. New Zealand’s GCSB is targeting the Solomon islands PM’s inner circle. Dylan Moran. Cyclone Pam just hit the Solomon islands. People sheltered in caves.

19 March 2015 – Radio NZ Int. Mass immunisation in Vanuatu. Vaccines by UNICEF. 1,000 children vaccinated in the next ten days. They have already vacinated 1,000 children under 5, in the last 24 hours. 10,000 to be vaccinated in the next 10 days. Malnourished children with no food to eat.

30 March 2015 – RT 7.7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea, near the Solomon islands. USGS.

30 March 2015 – Three undersea earthquakes near Niuatoputapu. Matangi Tonga. Three large quakes 6.8 and 6.4.

30 March 2015 – Earthquakes strike Samoa and Tonga. The Guardian UK. A series of quakes. Two size 6 quakes hit off Samoa's east. ABC online.

30 March 2015 – Daily Mail online UK. 7.7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Tsunami, a small one. Aftershocks expected.

30 March 2015 – Times of India. AP Sydney. 7.7 earthquake Papua New Guinea. Tsunami warning issued. Only a small one. Aftershocks expected.

31 March 2015 – Tsunami warning after PNG hit by 7.5 quake aftershock. Arab news.

21 May 2015 – 6.9 earthquake in the Pacific. An undersea quake near Santa Cruz, Honiara Solomon islands. No tsunami warning was issued.

22 June 2015 – Deep 6.5 earthquake near Ndoi island Fiji. (Anonymous Twitter).

18 July 2015 – A 6.9 earthquake near the Solomon islands. An undersea quake. Originally a 7.5 but was downgraded. Stuff.co.nz.

31 July 2015 – Anonymous uncensored Twitter. Manam in PNG a large volcanic eruption. Wired science. Erik Klemetti.