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vii List of Tables Table 1.1 Conditions Favorable or Necessary for Tropical Cyclone Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Table 4.1 Geologic Time Scale Since the Cretaceous . . . . . .47 Table 4.2 Classification of Pacific Islands Used as a Basis for Systematic Landscape Description . . . . . . . . .49 Table 4.3 Sediment Yields of Rivers in Papua New Guinea . . . 51 Table 4.4 Selected Rates of Recession and Progradation on Pacific Island Coasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 Table 4.5 Rates of Lateral Inundation for Selected Island Groups in the South Pacific . . . . . . . . . . .54 Table 4.6 Selected Rates of Uplift and Subsidence for Pacific Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Table 5.1 Average Rainfall Data for Suva and Nadi, Fiji Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Table 5.2 Extent of Acid Soils in Some Pacific Island Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 Table 5.3 Topsoil and Subsoil Nutrient Data for Two Fiji Pedons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 Table 5.4 Changes in Soil Properties with Time for a Sugar Cane Farm, Seaqaqa, Vanua Levu, Fiji . . . . .67 Table 6.1 Long-Term Averages of Monthly Rainfall for Three Capital Cities in the Tropical Pacific Islands . . . . .71 Table 6.2 Largest Rivers on Selected Islands in the Tropical Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 Table 6.3 Domestic Water Consumption in Some Pacific Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 Table 6.4 Typical Analyses for Freshwater Resources in the Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76 Table 8.1 Classification of Pacific Island Terrestrial Ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Table 9.1 Number of Fish Species in Various Trophic Categories in the Purari River, Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . 110 Table 9.2 Primary Productivity Rates in the Ocean . . . . . . 112 Table 9.3 Benefits and Costs of Symbiosis Between Corals and Zooxanthellae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Table 9.4 Comparison of Some of the Major Aquatic Ecosystems of the Pacific Island Region . . . . . . 119 App. 9.1 Taxonomic Relationships of Some Common Aquatic Invertebrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Table 10.1 Major Pacific Island Plant Foods . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Table 11.1 Political Status of Pacific Island Groups . . . . . . . 144 Table 13.1 Approximate Number of Indigenous Languages and Unrelated Families in Pacific Regions . . . . . 160 Table 13.2 Some Austronesian Cognate Sets . . . . . . . . . . 161 Table 13.3 Some Cognate Sets of the Trans–New Guinea Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Table 13.4 Some Proto-Oceanic Terms for Canoe Parts and Seafaring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Table 13.5 Some Proto-Oceanic Terms for Horticulture and Food Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 App. 17.1 Customary Law in the Pacific Islands . . . . . . . . 211 Table 22.1 Demographic Indicators for Pacific Island Countries and Territories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Table 22.2 Proportion of Population by Large Age Groups and Dependency Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Table 23.1 Population Growth and Migration Rates, Pacific Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Table 23.2 Pacific Island First-Generation Migrant Diasporas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 viii ■ Tables Table 24.1 Demographic Estimates for Pacific Island Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Table 24.2 Infant and Child Health and Access Statistics in Selected Pacific Island Countries . . . . . . . . . 293 Table 24.3 Maternal Health Statistics for Selected Pacific Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 Table 25.1 Percentage of Female Students at USP by Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Table 26.1 Urbanization in the Pacific Islands . . . . . . . . . 311 Table 27.1 Background Data on Twenty-Seven Pacific Economies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 Table 27.2 Per Capita GDP/GNI by Political Status . . . . . . 327 Table 27.3 Financing of the Current Account in Thirteen Pacific Island Economies . . . . . . . . . 331 Table 27.4 Pacific Island First-Generation Migrant Diasporas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 Table 28.1 Pacific Island Agricultural and Marine Exports . . 348 Table 29.1 Contribution of Logging to Deforestation in PNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Table 30.1 The Relative Importance of Coastal Fisheries in the Pacific Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 Table 30.2 Annual Volume and Value of Commercial and Subsistence Coastal Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . 367 Table 30.3 Tuna Catch by Gear Type in Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Region . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Table 30.4 Tuna Catch by Species in Western and Central Pacific Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Table 30.5 Tuna Catch by Flagged Vessels in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Table 30.6 Cultivation of Aquaculture Commodities in the Pacific Islands Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Table 31.1 Comparative Mineral Production Statistics for Selected Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Table 31.2 Mining’s Contribution to Some Pacific Island Economies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382 Table 32.1 Background Data on Pacific Island Tourism . . . . 393 Table 32.2 Solomon Islands Arrival Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 397 Table 33.1 Trans-Pacific Communication Cables . . . . . . . . 403 Table 33.2 Satellite Communications Infrastructure . . . . . . 404 Table 33.3 Pacific Islands Fixed-Line and Mobile Telephones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Table 33.4 Pacific Islands Internet and Broadband . . . . . . . 409 Table 34.1 Poverty Head Counts in the Pacific . . . . . . . . . 419 Table 34.2 Selected Human Development Index Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 ...

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