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| TITLE: |
The Marshalls and the Pacific |
| PUBLISHED: |
[Kwajalein, Marshall Islands : The HourGlass], 1965. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
23 v. : ill., maps ; 45 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Title from masthead. |
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No. 16 omitted in numbering; includes unnumbered issues called: Special supplement. |
| NOTES: |
Prepared by E. H. Bryan, Jr. |
| NOTES: |
Reissued in 1 volume with cover title: Life in Micronesia. |
| NOTES: |
Includes oceanographic surveys/depths of Marianas Trench, The Planet Deep, the Mindanao Deep, the Kermadec-Tonga Trench; population statistics of Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia (1960) and their political statuses; plant life, marine (including shell) life, and insects of Micronesia, particularly, the Marshalls; coral reefs; Kwajalein place and (alternate) names; atoll life; coconut palm tree uses, i.e., fermented 'toddy'(like the sikaliwi, achi, tuba, and falupa, etc., of the Carolines); canoe-building and navigation; stick charts; fish traps/trapping from plants (mostly Marshalls); discovery and exploration (names of explorers and ships) of the Marshalls; Rehabilitation Center on Majuro; traders, whalers, and missionaries in the Marshalls and Micronesia; Marshalls as a German Colony, including reference to the Thilenius Expedition; Marshallese population during Japanese period; "The battle of the Marshalls" beginning with Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; The story of Bikini: "Atomic bombs and displaced persons". |
| NOTES: |
Prepared by E.H. Bryan, Jr. |
| NOTES: |
Reissued in 1 v. with cover title: Life in Micronesia. |
| SUBJECT: |
Marshall Islands--Collected works. |
| SUBJECT: |
Micronesia--Collected works. |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Bryan, E.H. (Edwin Horace), 1898- |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Bernice P. Bishop Museum Pacific Scientific Information Center. |
| ADDED ENTRY: |
Life in Micronesia |
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