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 is far from any traditional maritime route, its singular civilization has evolved up until the present day almost without any external influences.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The first of three Australian funded aid boats arrived at the cyclone battered polynesian island of Tikopia on Sunday morning, armed ...

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 ...

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 ...

March said that after helping those on Tikopia, the Auki would head later Sunday to Anuta to assess damage and provide emergency relief. The ship was expected to arrive early Monday.

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 ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) through its Extension Department has delivered dozens of vegetable seeds and farming tools to remote communities in Tikopia and Anuta Island, Temotu ...