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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Oceania is a fully refereed, A-rated journal of social and cultural anthropology. Its regional orientation is to peoples of Australia, the island Pacific and insular southeast Asia. It is centrally ...

While acknowledging MAL for the generous support, Mr. Djokovic said the seeds, tools and equipment made available by MAL will assist the remote communities of Tikopia and Anuta to establish ...

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 ...

Aid workers are hoping to make the first contact with Pacific islanders whose homes were struck by a powerful storm nine days ago. A patrol boat has left the Solomon Island of Tikopia for the island ...