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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

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 ...

The Solomons patrol boat Auki arrived at Tikopia early on Sunday, to begin handing out much-needed food and medical supplies to the estimated 1,300 people living on the island. Workers said that the ...

Cyclone Zoe tore across the Pacific islands of Tikopia and Anuta a week ago, with 360kph winds and massive waves levelling huts, shredding trees and flattening vital food crops.

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 ...

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, Anuta and Fataka are volcanic islands in the Santa Cruz group of the sprawling Solomons archipelago. Oval-shaped Tikopia, the biggest of the three, measures just five km (three miles) at ...