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PUBLICATIONS:

Gladwin, Thomas (1970) East is a Big Bird: Navigation & Logic on Puluwat Atoll. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

.Lewis, David (1994) We, The Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, Second Edition.

Merlin, Mark (1996) Plants, people and ecology in Yap • Gidii nge gakiiy nu Wa`ab. Honolulu: East-West Center.

Thomas, Stephen D. (1987) The Last Navigator. New York: Henry Holt and Company.


IMAGES:

Map of land divisions on Mogmog from Ushijima, Iwao (1982) "The Control of Reefs and Lagoons: Some Aspects of the Political Structure of Ulithi Atoll." In Machiko Aoyagi (ed), Islanders and their Outside World. Tokyo: Committee for Micronesian Research, St. Paul's (Rikkyo) University: 35-75.

Color images of canoes from Satawal courtesy of Benigno Sablan, Tanapag Village, Saipan.

Except where stated otherwise, all photographs by RDK Herman, Pacific Worlds.


WEBSITES:

Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Center :
http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc.html
This website is considered the best source for information on Typhoons in the Pacific. Statistics, satellite photographs, current bulletins, and more.

The World Wildlife Fund has a web page on Caroline Islands tropical moist forests:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/oc/oc0101_full.html



 

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