WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS

wŏlˈĭs, footooˈnä, French overseas territory (1995 est. pop. 14,000), 106 sq mi (274 sq km), South Pacific, W of Samoa and NE of Fiji. Comprising two small groups, the Wallis Islands and the Hoorn Islands, which are c.120 mi (190 km) apart, it is sometimes called Wallis Archipelago. The main volcanic islands are Uvea, Futuna, and Alofi; the chief town is Matautu. Copra was an important export until the mid-1960s, when an attack of rhinoceros beetles ravaged the islands' palm trees. Timber is still exported. The islands came under French control in 1842 and became an overseas territory in 1961. They are governed by an administrator and a territorial assembly.

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books on: Wallis and Futuna Islands  - 81 results

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1.
The Right to National Self-Determination: The Faroe Islands and Greenland
Book by Sjurour Skaale; Martinus Nijhoff, 2004
Subjects: Decolonization--Faroe Islands, Decolonization--Greenland, Denmark--Colonies--Administration, Self-Determination, National--Faroe Islands, Self-Determination, National--Greenland
...Antarctic Territories; Wallis and Futuna Islands; Mayotte...Continent These are the islands inside the European...is an OCT), Faroes Islands, Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man. Islands Outside the European...the EU context, the island polities have gained...
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A History of the Pacific Islands
Book by I. C. Campbell; University of Canterbury Press, 1989
Subjects: Islands Of The Pacific--History
...duties and periodically advising or intimidating island chiefs according to the situations and the inclinations...Not only was a suggested French protectorate over Wallis and Futuna islands between Fiji and Samoa aborted on British insistence...
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World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-Military Study
Book by Gordon L. Rottman; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Islands Of The Pacific--Strategic Aspects, Military Geography--Pacific Area, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean, World War, 1939-1945--United States
Map 22 Wallis (Uv6a) Island Futuna being the 2,509...lived on the two islands. The Home Islands...town is Sigave on Futuna. (Today the islands...more mountainous Futuna is seriously eroded...fresh water.) The Wallis Islands were discovered...
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Island Tourism and Sustainable Development: Caribbean, Pacific, and Mediterranean Experiences
Book by Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Dennis J. Gayle; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Economic Development, Islands--Economic Conditions, Tourism
...Pacific, and Mediterranean islands. TOURISM: THE CARIBBEAN...following is a list of the islands in the Caribbean, Pacific...Dominica British Virgin Islands Grenada Cayman Islands...Palau Tokelau Ponape Wallis and Futuna France Truk Western Samoa...
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The Pacific Islands: Paths to the Present
Book by Evelyn Colbert; Westview Press, 1997
Subjects: Islands Of The Pacific, Oceania--History
...Status Capital Principal Islands or Island Groups American Samoa...Pago Pago Tutuila Cook Islands independent in free...Santo, Malakula, Efate Wallis and Futuna French territory Mata-Utu Ile Uvea, Ile Futuna Western Samoa * independent...
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journal articles on: Wallis and Futuna Islands  - 30 results

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Selling Is Poverty, Buying a Shame: Representations of Work, Effective Leadership and Market Failures on Wallis
Journal article by Paul Van Der Grijp; Oceania, Vol. 73, 2002
Subjects: Markets (Economics)--Social aspects, Social economics--Case studies, Wallis and Futuna Islands--Economic aspects, Wallis and Futuna Islands--Social aspects, Work--Social aspects
...general economic situation on the island. Wallis may be defined in terms of having...territory (Territoire dOutre-Mer Wallis-et-Futuna) with a relatively high standard...government salaries. Moreover, Wallis has considerable reliance on...
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Titanic States? Impacts and Responses to Climate Change in the Pacific Islands
Journal article by Jon Barnett; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 59, 2005
Subjects: Climate change--Environmental aspects, Climate change--Prevention, Climatic changes--Environmental aspects, Climatic changes--Prevention, Pacific Islands--Environmental aspects, Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1997
...Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu; Polynesia...Samoa, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue, Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Wallis and Futuna; and Micronesia...Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, the Northern...
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Site LPO023 of Kurin: Characteristics of a Lapita Settlement in the Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia)
Journal article by Christophe Sand, Jacques Bole, Andre Ouetcho; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Land settlement--Research, Lapita culture--Research, Loyalty Islands--Research, Melanesia--Research
...Complex in the Loyalty Islands. The natural environment...the east coast of Mare Island is markedly different...research in the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia. Asian...premier peuplement de Wallis et Futuna: Contribution a la...southeast Solomon Islands, in Traditional Fishing...
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Island Microstates: The Mirage of Development
Journal article by John Connell; The Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 3, 1991
Subjects: Oceania
...has been true for some island microstates elsewhere...their attractions for island microstates and have...tax liabilities. Most island tax havens are in the Caribbean (Cayman Islands, Bahamas), nearby...territories as Pitcairn and Wallis and Futuna, few of these stamps...
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The Changing Role of Irrigated Colocasia Esculenta (Taro) on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands: From an Essential Element of Colonization to an Important Risk-Reduction Strategy
Journal article by David J. Addison; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 47, 2008
Subjects: Archaeology--Social aspects, Australian National University, Droughts--Social aspects
...of the Marquesas Islands--the degree of...expansive West Hawaii Island chiefdom may be...Alo chiefdom on Futuna appears to represent...in the Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia...premier peuplement de Wallis et Futuna: Contribution a...ans de Polynesie a Wallis et Futuna, in Le...
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magazine articles on: Wallis and Futuna Islands  - 10 results

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In the Wake of Captain Cook - A Trip to the South Pacific aboard an Ice-Class Russian Research Vessel
Magazine article by Bill Strubbe; World and I, Vol. 15, July 2000
Subjects: Cook Islands--Description and travel, Research vessels--Travel, Strubbe, Bill--Personal narratives
...dinghy on a deserted island," our guide laughed...to the Fijian island of Taveuni. Descending...call at obscure islands like the Tokelaus...Aitutaki, and Wallis and Futuna. Isolated islands On Futuna, an isolated island of about five thousand...
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Pacific Arts Festival
Magazine article by Neil Okrent; Dance Magazine, Vol. 75, March 2001
Subjects: Art festivals--Analysis
...with a Torres Island group (Australian...dance by the Wallis and Futuna Islands, then break...Tahiti, Wallis and Futuna...serious Pacific Island dance performers...five major islands of Tahiti...Company from Wallis and Futuna; Rapa Nuis...
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South Pacific Anger over French Nuclear Testing
Magazine article by Keith Suter; Contemporary Review, Vol. 268, February 1996
Subjects: France--Foreign relations, Nuclear arms control--International aspects, Oceania--Relations with France
...cent of whom are French). The Wallis and Futuna Islands has 14,000 people (almost entirely...more money into the South Pacific islands than does Australia. 1996s ending...be made from the colonies. The islands have a small land area but they...
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Think Again Global Aging: A Gray Tsunami Is Sweeping the Planet-And Not Just in the Places You Expect. How Did the World Get So Old, So Fast?
Magazine article by Phillip Longman; Foreign Policy, November 2010
Subjects: Population aging--Analysis, Population aging--Forecasts and trends
...and many other developing regions experiencing the same hyper-aging--from Cuba to Croatia, Lebanon to the Wallis and Futuna Islands--will not necessarily have a chance to get rich before they get old. One contributing factor is urbanization...
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Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Magazine article by Jeff Gibson; Artforum International, Vol. 38, January 2000
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th century, Brisbane, Australia--Social aspects
...Guinea, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Wallis and Futuna Islands. There is also a new category, "Crossing Borders," which includes work by artists from these countries but...
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newspaper articles on: Wallis and Futuna Islands  - 6 results

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Two Stolen Phones Ran Up Bills of over Pounds 1/2 M
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 21, 2006
Subjects: Theft
...months, one phone alone clocked up pounds 289,991 calling pounds 5.95-a-minute premium rate number in the Wallis and Futuna Islands - a French overseas territory in the South Pacific. At one point a junior member of staff in the Foreign Office...
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Gova[euro
Newspaper article; January 3, 2006
...Longissima in Guangdong, China, Hainan Island, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Maldives...New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa and Queensland and...
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DA Saves over 212,300 Coconut Trees from Pest
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 17, 2007
Subjects: Antiparkinson agents--Protection and preservation, Antiparkinsonian agents--Protection and preservation, International trade--Protection and preservation
...Guangdong province in China; Hainan Islands, Hong Kong and Taiwan ROC; Maldives...New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Island, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa, and Queensland and...
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DA Bans Imports of Palm Seedlings
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 28, 2007
Subjects: Imports
...Province of Mainland China, Hainan Islands, Hong Kong and Taiwan ROC, Maldives...New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Island, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa and Queensland and...
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{Talking of} {the Creativity of the Arts}
Newspaper article; The Observer (Gladstone, Australia), May 21, 2009
...mulberry tree inner bark. Works from the Pacific Islands including Papua New Guinea, West Papua, Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna will be on show. The exhibition is curated by...
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encyclopedia articles on: Wallis and Futuna Islands  - 4 results

 
 
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Wallis and Futuna Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS wol is, footoo na, officially Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, French overseas territory (2005 est. pop. 16,000...
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French Community
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Sahara), the overseas territories (Comoro Islands, French Polynesia, the Territory of the Afars and...French Southern and Antarctic territories, and the Wallis and Futuna Islands), the overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe...
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Mata-Utu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...MATA-UTU town (2003 pop. 1,191), capital of the French overseas territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands . Located on the E coast of Uvea island, it is a port and the chief city of the territory. Points of interest include the cathedral...
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France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...territories are New Caledonia , French Polynesia , Wallis and Futuna Islands , and the French Southern and Antarctic Territories...eastern end of the Pyrenees, and Corsican on the island of Corsica. Roman Catholicism is by far the largest...


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