Vanished islands in vanuatu: New research and a preliminary geohazard assessment)

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-50

  Nunn, Patrick D ^a   Baniala, Mary ^b   Harrison, Morris ^c   Geraghty, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Vanuatu)

^c Mines and Water Resources ^*  (Vanuatu)

Author keywords

Geohazard; Island; Oral tradition; Pacific; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL HAZARD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; ISLAND; SEISMICITY;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; VANUATU;

EID: 33646822812     PISSN: 03036758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2006.9517798     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Bedford S 2003. The timing and nature of Lapita colonisation in Vanuatu: the haze begins to clear. In: Sand C ed. Pacific archaeology: assessments and prospects. Nouméa. Les Cahiers de l’Archéologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie 15: 147-158.
2. Benoit M, Dubois J 1971. The earthquake swarm in the New Hebrides archipelago, August 1965. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand 9: 141-148.
3. Bonnemaison J 1996. Gens de pirogue et gens de la terre. Editions de PORSTOM, Paris.
4. Camey JN, Macfarlane A 1980. A sedimentary basin in the central New Hebrides arc. United Nations ESCAP, CCOP/SOPAC Technical Bulletin 3: 109-120.
5. Carracedo JC, Day SJ, Guillou H, Torrado FJP 1999. Giant Quaternary landslides in the evolution of La Palma and El Hierro, Canary Islands. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 94: 169-190.
6. Chase TE, Seekins BA 1988. Submarine topography of the Vanuatu and southeastern Solomon Islands regions. In: Greene HG, Wong FL ed. Geology and offshore resources of Pacific Island Arcs—Vanuatu Region. Houston, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources. Pp. 35-36.
7. Clark R 1994. The Polynesian Outliers as a locus of language contact. In: Dutton T, Tryon DT ed. Language contact and change in the Austronesian World. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 109-139.
8. Clark R 1996. Linguistic consequences of the Kuwae eruption. In: Davidson JM, Irwin G, Leach BF, Pawley A, Brown D ed. Oceanic culture history: essays in honour of Roger Green. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology, Special Publication: 275-285.
9. Davies H 2002. Tsunamis and the coastal communities of Papua New Guinea. In: Torrence R, Grattan J ed. Natural disasters and cultural change. London, Routledge. Pp. 28-42.
10. Day SJ, Carracedo JC, Guillou H, Gravestock P 1999. Recent structural evolution of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, La Palma, Canary Islands: volcanic rift zone reconfiguration as a precursor to volcano flank instability? Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 94:135-167.
11. Eissen JP, Monzier M, Robin C 1994. Kuwae, l’éruption volcanique oubliée. La Recherche 270: 1200-1202.
12. Espirat J-J 1973. Etude géologique de File Tongariki et observations sur la géologie des lies Shepherd. In: Espirat J-J, Guiart J, Lagrange M-S, Renaud M ed. Système des Titres, Electifs ou Héréditaires, dans les Nouvelles-Hébrides Centrales d’Efate aux des lies Shepherd. Paris. Mémoires de lTnstitut d’Ethnologie vol X: 3—48.
13. Galipaud J-C 2002. Under the volcano: Ni-Vanuatu and their environment. In: Torrence R, Grattan J ed. Natural disasters and cultural change. London, Routledge. Pp. 162-171.
14. Garanger J 1972. Archéologie des Nouvelles Hébrides. Paris. Publications de la Société des Océanistes 30.
15. Geraghty P 2001. Amazing -a: the suffix that named the Pacific world. Rongorongo Studies 11: 63-74.
16. Greene HG, Wong FL ed. 1988. Geology and offshore resources of Pacific Island Arcs—Vanuatu Region. Houston, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources. 442 p.
17. Greene HG, Macfarlane A, Johnson DP, Crawford AJ 1988. Structure and tectonics of the central New Hebrides arc. In: Greene HG, Wong FL ed. Geology and offshore resources of Pacific Island Arcs—Vanuatu Region. Houston, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources. Pp. 377-412.
18. Holcomb RT, Searle RC 1991. Large landslides from oceanic volcanoes. Marine Geotechnology 10: 19-32.
19. Howorth R 2000. Waves and vanishing islands. Islands Business, June. Pp. 48-49.
20. Jouannic C, Taylor FW, Bloom AL, Bemat M 1980. Late Quaternary uplift history from emerged reef terraces on Santo and Malekula islands, central New Hebrides island arc. United Nations ESCAP, CCOP/SOPAC Technical Bulletin 3: 91-108.
21. Katz HR 1988. Offshore geology of Vanuatu—previous work. In: Greene HG, Wong FL ed. Geology and offshore resources of Pacific Island Arcs—Vanuatu Region. Houston, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources. Pp. 93-122.
22. Keating BH, McGuire WJ 2000. Island edifice failures and associated tsunami hazards. Pure and Applied Geophysics 157: 899-955.
23. Kirch PV 1984. The Polynesian Outliers: continuity, change, and replacement. Journal of Pacific History 19: 224-238.
24. Luders D 1996. Legend and history: did the Vanuatu-Tonga kava trade cease in AD 1447? Journal of the Polynesian Society 105: 287-310.
25. Lynch J, Crowley T 2001. Languages of Vanuatu: a new survey and bibliography. Pacific Linguistics 517. Canberra, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.
26. Macfarlane A, Carney JN, Crawford AJ, Greene HG 1988. Vanuatu—a review of the onshore geology. In: Greene HG, Wong FL ed. Geology and offshore resources of Pacific Island Arcs—Vanuatu Region. Houston, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources. Pp. 45- 91.
27. Monzier M, Robin C, Eissen JP 1994. Kuwae (c. 1425): the forgotten caldera. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 59:207-218.
28. Moore JG, Moore GW 1984. Deposit from a giant wave on the island of Lanai, Hawaii. Science 226: 1312-1315.
29. Moore JG, Bryan WB, Kudwig KR 1994. Chaotic deposition by a giant wave, Molokai, Hawaii. Geological Society of America, Bulletin 106: 962-967.
30. Nunn PD 1994. Oceanic Islands. Oxford, Blackwell.
31. Nunn PD 2000. Environmental catastrophe in the Pacific Islands about AD 1300. Geoarchaeology 15: 715-740.
32. Nunn PD 2001. On the convergence of myth and reality: examples from the Pacific Islands. The Geographical Journal 167: 125-138.
33. Nunn PD 2003a. Nature-society interactions in the Pacific Islands. Geografiska Annaler 85B: 219-229.
34. Nunn PD 2003b. Fished-up or thrown-down: the geography of Pacific Island origin myths. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93: 350-364.
35. Nunn PD, Britton JMR 2001. Human-environment relationships in the Pacific Islands around AD 1300. Environment and History 7: 3-22.
36. Nunn PD, Pastorizo MR in press. Geological histories and geohazard potential of Pacific Islands illuminated by myths. Geological Society of London, Special Publication.
37. Pang KD 1993. Climatic impact of the mid-fifteenth century Kuwae caldera formation as reconstructed from historical and proxy data. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 74: 106.
38. Sand C 1995. Le temps d’avant: la préhistoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Paris, L’Harmattan.
39. Spriggs M 1997. The Island Melanesians. Oxford, Blackwell.
40. Spriggs M 2003. Post-Lapita evolutions in island Melanesia. In: Sand C ed. Pacific archaeology: assessments and prospects. Nouméa. Les Cahiers de l’Archéologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie 15:205-212.
41. Stommel H 1984. Lost islands. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press.
42. Tappin DR, Matsumoto T, Watts P, Satake K, McMurtry GM, Matsuyama M, Lafoy Y, Tsuji Y, Kanamatsu T, Lus W, Iwabachi Y, Yeh H, Matsumoto Y, Nakamura M, Moihoi M, Hill P, Crook K, Anton L, Walsh JP 1999. Sediment slump likely caused the 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 80: 329, 334, 340.
43. Tryon DT 1976. New Hebrides languages: an internal classification. Pacific Linguistics C-50. Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra.
44. Tryon D 1996. Dialect chaining and the use of geographical space. In: Bonnemaison J, Kaufman C, Huffman K, Tryon D ed. Arts of Vanuatu. Bathurst, Crawford House Press. Pp. 170-181.
45. Walter R 1996. Settlement pattem archaeology in the southern Cook Islands: a review. The Journal of the Polynesian Society 105: 63-99.
46. Ward SN, Day SJ 2001. Cumbre Vieja volcano: potential collapse and tsunami at La Palma, Canary Islands. Geophysical Research Letters 28: 3397-3400.
47. Warden AJ 1970. Evolution of Aoba caldera volcano. Bulletin Volcanologique 34: 107-140.
48. Wong FL, Greene HG 1988. Geologic hazards in the Central Basin region, Vanuatu. In: Greene HG, Wong FL ed. Geology and offshore resources of Pacific Island Arcs—Vanuatu Region. Houston, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources. Pp. 225-251.
49. Young RW, Bryant EA 1992. Catastrophic wave erosion on the southeastern coast of Australia: impact of the Lanai tsunamis ca. 105 ka. Geology 20:199-202.