Clipperton Island

Sailors leave ancient "fingerprints" across Polynesia (The University of Queensland)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jul 2016

The University of Queensland research used chemical fingerprinting on stone tools to show sailors travelled throughout the Polynesian islands for several centuries after colonisation. UQ School of Social Science researcher Professor Marshall Weisler said tools were taken to the Cook Islands from across the eastern Pacific from as early as AD1300....

The Lonely Island is creating a pilot in a box for Freeform

Edit Mashable 06 Jul 2016

The Lonely Island is finally returning to TV after leaving Saturday Night Live about six years ago ... Watch The Lonely Island sing 'I'm On A Boat' with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots ... Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer make up the Lonely Island, a comedy ......

Berube agrees to one-year deal with Islanders

Edit The Washington Times 06 Jul 2016

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Islanders have agreed to a one-year deal with goaltender Jean-Francois Berube. Berube, 24, made his NHL debut with the Islanders last season, posting a 3-2-1 record with a 2.71 goals-against average and .914 save percentage in seven games. The Islanders claimed Berube off ... ....

The Dancing Monks of Majuli Island

Edit Skiddle 06 Jul 2016

Monks from the beautiful island of Majuli, centre of Assamese Krishna worship, are travelling to London this July ... The Dancing Monks of Majuli Island on Sun 10th July 2016. For the first time ever in the UK, monks from the beautiful island of Majuli, centre of Assames Krishna, perform the classical Indian dance ......

Missile misfire makes trust building urgent

Edit China Daily 06 Jul 2016

The island's authorities confirmed on Friday afternoon that the navy had misfired a missile that morning, which hit a Taiwan fishing boat in the waters off the island, killing one person and injuring three people ... Also, the island's "military" issued a written report on Monday explaining the entire incident. Speculations aside, the island's poor ......

Report: US government provided Guam with $550M in 2015

Edit Stars and Stripes 06 Jul 2016

HAGATNA, Guam — A newly released report from Guam's public auditor says the island received more than $550 million from the federal government in fiscal 2015. The report released Friday comes weeks before the Commission on Decolonization is set to discuss whether island residents should be able to decide on the fate of Guam ... government accounted for about 45 percent of the $1.2 billion that the island spent in fiscal 2015....

New video collection showcases Aboriginal Tourism (Tourism Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jul 2016

Our Country is Waiting for You, to coincide with NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week 2016. The celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures is evident through a variety of inspiring and poignant clips, including the ......

Tasmania an Unlikely Leader in Drive Towards Solar (SUNworks - Solar United Network Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jul 2016

These days, though, the isolated island state that is actually part of Australia is becoming known for its growing leadership in the solar energy space ... The project is being tested in one island community that is connected to the grid by one cable. The hope is that the residents will be able to make the island self-sufficient and to allow it to use the hard-wired grid only as a last resort....

Ocean Rig UDW Inc. Announces the Results of Its 2016 Annual General Meeting...

Edit Topix 06 Jul 2016

1. the election of Mr. George Kokkodis and Mrs. Chrysoula Kandylidis as Class C Directors of the Company to serve until the 2019 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders; 2 ... the approval of the special resolution required pursuant to the Companies Law of the laws of the Cayman Islands to adopt the Company's Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association in compliance with Cayman Islands law ... ....

Primo Popcorn to close its Downtown Honolulu shop

Edit Business Journal 06 Jul 2016

Primo Popcorn is closing its Downtown Honolulu shop at the end of this month in an effort to consolidate its entire operation to its Sand Island location, one of its owners confirmed to Pacific Business News. The gourmet popcorn store, which also sells T-shirts with pidgin English phrases, opened in 2013 in a 600-square-foot ground-floor location on the Queen Street side of the Davies Pacific Center ... Its Sand Island… ... ....

Navas, Pujols carry Hudson Valley to 4-2 win over Staten Island

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 06 Jul 2016

... Hudson Valley Renegades defeated the Staten Island Yankees 4-2 on Tuesday....

Ex-diplomat: Philippines must forgo provocations

Edit China Daily 06 Jul 2016

He said that although China possesses the ability to recover the islands that were illegally occupied by other countries, "in the interest of regional peace and stability, China has all along exercised enormous restraint" ... He said the Xisha Islands and Nansha Islands, illegally occupied by Japan during World War II, were restored to China after the war in accordance with the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation ... ....

As Brexit Splits Europe, One Divided Island Edges Toward Unity

Edit Bloomberg 06 Jul 2016

What’s changed is that the leaders of both parts of the island are pursuing talks on their own power-sharing arrangement rather than one imposed by the United Nations ... The international bailout of the island three years ago led to more hope that economic necessity would lead to unity, only for talks to stall again....

The Clipperton Project Official Trailer

Clipperton, an Island wasted by pollution

Uninhabited Islands That Will Capture Your Imagination HD 2015