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  Index

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  A2/AD (anti-access/area denial capabilities), 417, 419

  Abbot Point, Australia, 348–50

  Able atomic test, 54–59

  ABNJs (Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction), 366

  Abraham Lincoln, USS (carrier), 383

  acidification, 341, 347, 366

  Adamstown, Pitcairn Island, 217, 219

  Admiralty Islands, 300

  Afghan refugees, 300–301

  Africa Maru (ship), 11

  Agent Orange, 20, 209

  Aikau, Eddie, 439n

  aircraft carriers, 443

  Airlie Beach, 348

  airlines, 192–93

  Air Marshall Islands, 66

  Air-Sea Battle, 410, 416, 417–20

  Alabama, 13

  Alakai Swamp, 355

  Alaska, 5, 13, 32, 381

  earthquake of 1912, 379n

  earthquake of 1964, 378

  earthquake of 1965, 315

  Alaskan Indians, 437

  Albania, 178

  albatross, 356–62, 369

  Laysan, 357n, 365

  short-tailed or Steller’s (Phoebastria albatrus), 356–62, 361

  wandering (Diomedea exulans), 356–57, 359

  Aleutian Islands, 3, 99, 316, 392n

  Aleutian Range, 379n

  Aleuts, 21

  Alexandrov, Simon, 59

  Alfred, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, 137, 137n-38n

  Allied Land Forces French Indochina, 203

  aloha, 444

  Alter, Hobart “Hobie,” 142–46, 143

  Alvin (HOV submersible), 305–8, 307, 317, 319–28, 332, 337

  American Samoa, 367

  Amin, Idi, 178

  Anchorage, 378

  anchovy fishing, 126–27, 249–51, 255, 260, 264–65

  Ancient World, 22

  Andaman Islands, 346, 382

  Anderson, Wes, 23

  Angola, 273

  Anguilla, 224n

  ANGUS (Acoustically Navigated Geophysical Underwater System), 318–19

  Antarctica, 18, 250

  Antarctic Plate, 313, 316

  antiaircraft missile, 87

  Antiquities Act (U.S., 1906), 367

  Aotearoa, 6, 431. See also New Zealand

  Appalachian, USS (ship), 55

  Apple Computer, 96, 114, 149

  Arafura Sea, 232, 299–300

  archaeology, 34

  Argo (underwater sled), 308

  Arkansas, USS (battleship), 61, 61

  Art of War, The (Sun), 377

  Asahi Shimbun (newspaper), 92

  Ascension Island, 157

  Asia, Australian relations with, 292–303. See also specific regions

  Askin, Bob, 286

  Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 382

  asylum seekers, 298–303

  Atlantic City, 139

  Atlantic Ocean, 22, 309, 331, 411

  hurricanes, 243–46

  atmospheric pressure, 244–45, 247–48, 254–55, 263

  atolls, 22. See also coral reefs; and specific atolls

  atomic bomb. See nuclear and atomic weapons; and specific sites

  Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 40, 42, 75–77

  Atsugi, Japan, 115

  Auden, W. H., 151

  Auke Bay, Alaska, 363

  Australia, 3, 18, 21, 25, 28, 409, 415

  Asia and, 292–96, 302–3

  British Commonwealth and, 272

  China and, 269, 348–50

  coral reefs and, 339–50, 369

  currency and, 285n, 287n

  cyclones and, 231–37, 246

  Dismissal and, 267–77, 275

  ENSO and, 260

  immigration policy, 293–302

  mining and, 11, 270

  natural wonders, 282

  Papua New Guinea and, 212n, 269

  refugees and, 298–301

  style of, 278–81

  surfing and, 122, 139–40

  Sydney Opera House and, 282–92

  U.S. Marines, 420, 422

  Vietnam War and, 206, 269

  Australian aboriginals, 21, 27, 296–98, 343n, 352, 441

  Australian Customs Act, 291

  Australian House of Representatives, 275

  Australian Institute of Marine Science, 345

  Australian Parliament, 271, 275–76, 296

  Australian Senate, 271

  Ayta peoples, 380, 382

  B-29 Superfortress, 48, 58–59, 87

  B-52 bomber, 307

  Bacon, Francis, 102

  Bahamas, 343

  Baja California, 328

  Baker, Rev. Mr., 214

  Baker atomic test, 59–61, 61, 64

  Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 18, 23–24, 441

  Ballard, R
obert, 308

  ballistic missiles, 53

  Baltic Sea, 410

  Banda Aceh tsunami of 2004, 379

  Banda Islands, 301

  Bank of Indochina, 215

  Banks, Joseph, 431

  Banner, USS (intelligence ship), 157

  Banzai Pipeline, 144–45

  Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam, 206, 208

  Bardeen, Dr., 97

  basalt, 310–11

  base surge, 63

  Bashful (transponder), 318

  Bata-Bata motorcycles, 89

  Bathurst Island, 232

  Bay of Bengal, 382

  BBC, 55n

  Beach Boys, 144

  Belgium, 352

  Belize, 343

  Bell, Coral, 424

  Bell Labs, 97, 99, 102, 104

  Bennelong Point, 284

  Berann, Heinrich, 317n

  Bering Land Bridge, 126

  Bering Strait, 18

  Bermuda, 224n

  Bikini atoll

  exile of islanders, 17, 50–52, 64–66, 79–81

  nuclear tests, 13n, 17, 26, 37, 43, 49–72, 76, 78–82

  payments to islanders, 78–80

  tourism and, 79

  Bingham, Hiram, 130–31

  Bingham, Hiram, III, 130n

  biological weapons testing, 20

  Bird, Isabella, 128–29

  birds, endangered, 350–62

  Bishop, Ida, 233

  Bishop Museum, 353, 436, 438

  Bislama language, 215

  Bismarck Archipelago, 126

  Bismarck Sea, 333, 337

  Blandy, William “Spike,” 47–50, 52–53, 60, 62–64

  Blank Monday, 146

  Bligh, Captain, 216

  Boeing 707, 192–93

  Boeing 747–400, 25

  Bombay Castle, 396

  Bonesteel, Charles Hartwell, III, “Tick,” 154–56, 154, 168, 175, 187, 309

  Bonin Islands, 361

  Borneo, 262, 389, 393, 398, 412–13

  Boso Peninsula, 114

  Botswana, 262

  Bounty, HMS (ship), 216–18, 220

  Bowen, Australia, 348

  BP dating convention, 36–37, 430

  Bradley, Stephen, 290

  Brattain, Dr., 97

  Brazil, 261, 337

  Bremerton, Washington, 158, 160

  Bridge of No Return, 172–73, 176, 177, 183, 187

  Brink, Francis, 206–7

  Brisbane, Australia, 234

  Britain, 31

  Australia and, 269, 272, 277

  citizenship rights and, 224n

  colonies, 9, 27–28, 190, 202, 211–20, 272, 352, 424, 433