Tikopia is far from any traditional maritime route, its singular civilization has evolved up until the present day almost without any external influences. The island is ruled by tribal chiefs and ...

Mr. Mackley told VOA, several villages on Tikopia were completely wiped out by the storm and the 30-foot waves that accompanied it. "Pretty much everything on the island was wiped out," he said.

Cyclone Zoe tore across the Pacific islands of Tikopia and Anuta a week ago, with 360kph winds and massive waves levelling huts, shredding trees and flattening vital food crops.

Tikopia and Anuta are part of the impoverished Solomon Islands, a country of 80 islands 1,400 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia.

A correspondent for the AFP news agency who flew over Tikopia said the most chilling sight was not the trees snapped in half by the storm, but what was missing. He said only a few people came out to ...

Cyclone Zoe, packing winds of up to 225 mph, hit Tikopia and Anuta islands in the Solomon Islands on Sunday. It wiped out communications and made initial damage assessment impossible.

Solomon Islands authorities said Friday they believed Cyclone Zoe buried at least two villages with a total population of up to 700 people when it devastated Tikopia island, as criticism mounted ...

Cyclone Lola destroyed “most” of the food crops on Tikopia in Solomon Islands when it hit as a Category 5 system in October. Civilian sailor Captain Scott Nguyen contacted RNZ Pacific after ...

IN the first volume of his account of the ritual cycle 1 known as “The Work of the Gods” in Tikopia, an isolated community in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Prof. Raymond Firth has ...