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The Pacific

These research suggestions and websites might help you with your research the Pacific.

Subject headings, keywords
Niue, Cook Islands, Tokelau, Kiribati, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu.
Pacific Islands, History, Trade, Natural Resources. (use a combination of these words)

Dewey Numbers
990,919.3,995 and 996.

Information File
Pacific Islands

  Reference:
Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Junior encyclopedias, Encarta,
Information file, People and Places. Atlas's.

On-line databases and websites

Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
    
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
    login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs. 
    Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
    or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
 Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'

These websites have information on The Pacific islands
 http://www.gov.nu/ Niue
http://www.ck/   Cook Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau Tokelau
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107682.html  Kiribati
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107509.html  Fiji
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108149.html  Samoa
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/16092.htm  Tonga
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1249549.stm  Tuvalu
http://www.sprep.org/topic/NatRes.htm (natural resources of the pacific)
http://www.unctad.org/infocomm/diversification/nadi/brief.pdf (pdf file on commodity dependency and trade)