Barely-explored, PNG is set in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia and north of Australia.
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In 1995, French commandos boarded the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior II" in the South Pacific.
He joined the Marines at 17 and served two years in the South Pacific.
SPrep is opposed to the South Pacific being used as a general space dumping ground.
There's Elan Musk, who started PayPal and is now trying to launch satellites from the South Pacific.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Winters joined the Marines aged 17 and served two years in the South Pacific.
My dad fought in the South Pacific and his brother, my uncle, died in a plane over Germany.
They left Tuvalu on Wednesday, ending a nine-day Diamond Jubilee tour of south-east Asia and the South Pacific.
Westpac Banking ( WBK, 108.6) is the oldest in an oligopoly of four and operates throughout the South Pacific.
The South Pacific island chain declared a 1.9 million-sq-km sanctuary, contiguous with one established last week by neighbouring French Polynesia.
He, his wife and the couple's 8-year-old son Isaac are missionaries in the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea.
Mexican authorities also said the 14-year-old was responsible for at least three kidnappings as an operative for the South Pacific Cartel.
Fiji is the largest and most developed economy in the South Pacific, with relatively low inflation (3%) and low interest rates.
It has also been driving a Commonwealth initiative to set up investment funds for Africa, the South Pacific and South Asia.
Later, he bought the rights to Hong Kong Kung-Fu movies and sold them in Indonesia and markets farther in the South Pacific.
Another hub airport is Los Angeles' LAX, which is the main funnel for people heading to Australia, the South Pacific, and Asia.
Teddy and Yvette are devout young Catholics who marry during the second world war, before Teddy ships out for the south Pacific.
The South Pacific territory - comprising the three atolls of Atafu, Nukunonu and Fakaofo - had been dependent on diesel to generate electricity.
Another Chilean firm, LAN Airlines (LFL, 16) , connects countries like Argentina, Ecuador and Peru with Chile, the U.S., Europe and the South Pacific.
Many of these areas are found in Asia, such as the Ganges River Delta, the Mekong River Delta and islands in the South Pacific.
France's continuing nuclear tests in the South Pacific have turned the international spotlight, if only briefly, on Tahiti and the other islands in French Polynesia.
The USS Dubuque, an amphibious transport dock ship, was due to deploy June 1 to the South Pacific on a humanitarian mission, according to Cmdr.
All that was shattered in 1987: Fiji was the scene of the South Pacific's first military coup, declared itself a republic and left the Commonwealth.
Missionaries from London began their work on the islands a decade or so later, and Christianity has very strong roots in this devout corner of the South Pacific.
And for a tropical trip akin to the South Pacific, visit The Quarter, the Tropicana's palm-tree dotted shopping, entertainment, and dining complex within the resort.
Prime Minister John Howard has backed away from his posturing during the East Timor crisis last year of Australia being America's deputy in the South Pacific.
Adding the cardinals from Africa, Asia and the South Pacific takes the figure up to 40%, a reflection of the vitality of Catholicism in these regions.
It is a little late to discover that someone wanted their ashes scattered over the South Pacific when their remains are safely interred in an English churchyard.
Viewers are taken to Easter Island in the South Pacific, where scientists are trying to determine why the island's population mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the 1700s.
Hobica suggested it was successful because the South Pacific carrier is a very small, regional airline that typically carries fewer than 30 people per flight, making weigh-ins logistically possible.
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