number of tests, by U.S., 53–54
radioactive contamination and, 20, 33–37
Soviets and, 32–33, 41
Truman and, 41–43, 66–67
Nude with Violin (Coward), 108
NYK container ships, 115
Oahu, 144, 427, 429
Oahu, 357n
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 47
Obama, Barack, 367–68, 420
Oceana, 21
Ocean Island, 212
Ocean Passages for the World, 3
octopus, deep-sea, 321
Oeno atoll, 216
Office of Naval Intelligence, 388
Office of Net Assessment, 416, 416, 419
oil shock of 1973, 270
oil spills, 362
Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, 243
Okinawa, 418
Typhoon Haiyan and, 240, 241
U.S. base at, 115, 392, 422
Okinawa, USS (assault ship), 211
olo (long surfboard), 128–29
Olympic Games, 25, 138–39
Omai of Ra’iatea, 5
o’o bird, 354–55
OPEC, 270
Operation Clickbeetle, 157
Operation Crossroads, 52–65, 61
Operation Damayan, 240
Operation Fiery Vigil, 383
Operation Frequent Wind, 209–10
Operation Linebacker, 209
Operation Paul Bunyan, 177
Operation Rolling Thunder, 209
Operation Sovereign Borders, 300
Opium Wars, 225, 228
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 39, 76n
Oracle Corporation, 369, 370
Oregon, 262, 311–12
Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), 200
Orwell, George, 153n
Osan, 419
Osborn, Shane, 403–4
Pacific Coast Surf Riding championships, 140
Pacific Electric, 135–36
Pacific Garbage Patch, 364
Pacific Islanders, 27. See also specific islands
Australia and, 293
navigational skills of, 429–34
Pacific Ocean. See also specific locations and peoples
Australia’s relationship with peoples of, 268–303
Balboa’s sighting of, 23
birds of, 350–62
Chinese military expansion and, 378, 386–425
consumer electronics and, 83–119
coral reefs and, 339–50
cyclones and typhoons and, 232–49, 264–65
deep sea exploration of, 305–37
end of colonialism in, 189–229
ENSO and El Nino and, 249–64
finding pivotal moments in story of, 22–29
Hokule‘a and Polynesian navigation of, 429–40
hydrothermal vents and, 306, 318–27
maps of, viii-ix, 152–56, 212, 256–58, 309–10, 313, 315–18, 390–91, 394, 414, 431
marine protected areas, 367–68
meeting of East and West in, 112, 441–44
migrations of islanders across, 4–5, 125n, 126–27, 427–41, 444
nuclear tests and, 19–20, 26, 39–81
North Korean confrontations and, 151–87
plastic debris in, 362–66
Pinatubo eruption and, 378–86
protecting environment of, 366–75
sea level of east vs. west, 254
smokers and mining of, 328–37
solar heat capture and, 248, 261, 264–65
surfing and, 121–49
tectonic architecture of, 21–22, 313–16
varied people and places of, 3–17, 20–22
vast size of, 1–3, 17–19, 28–29
Pacific Plate, 313, 314–16, 331, 357
Pacific Proving Grounds, 68
Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, 367–68
Pacific Rim, 21
Pacific Solution of 2001, 300
paipos (children’s surfboards), 129–31
Pak Chung Kuk, 171, 173
Pakistan, 205n, 300, 301
nuclear testing and, 33
Palau island, 11, 413, 419, 425
Pall Mall Magazine, 133
Palm Beach, USS (ship), 157
Palo, Philippines, 239–40
Palos Verdes Peninsula, 135
Palwan, 3
Panama, 3, 18
Panama Canal, 18, 193n, 317, 327
Panasonic, 113
Pandora Reef, 339–40, 342, 346
Panmunjom, Korea, 171–72, 177, 180, 187
Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, 367
Papeete, Tahiti, 438
Papua New Guinea, 45, 126, 297, 300
colonialism and, 212, 269
deep-sea mining and, 333–34
ENSO and, 260
history of, 212n
migrations to, 430, 440
Papua New Guinea Mine Watch, 336
Paracel Islands, 393n, 394–97, 394, 402
Park Chung Hee, 162, 176
Parker Pen Company, 200
Pascarelli, Mr., 297
Patagonia firm, 148–49
Pathalassic Ocean, 2
Pattern of Islands, A (Grimble), 6, 214
Patterson, Sir Leslie Colin “Les” (character), 279–81, 286
Peace Corps, 434
Pearl Harbor, 2, 388
attack, 10, 54, 57, 70, 388
Joint Typhoon Warning Center, 237
Pelicans, 250
Pentagon, 41, 46–50, 153, 157, 159, 378, 380–83, 388, 415, 419, 422
Perry, Admiral, 358
Peru, 21
anchoveta, 249–50, 260, 265
El Niño and, 249–52, 260
Inca and, 130n
surfing and, 126, 140
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky base, 421n
Philippine Plate, 357
Philippines, 254, 292, 372
China and, 393–96, 394, 398, 400–401, 425
colonialism and, 44
Marcos overthrown in, 25
migrations and, 430
Pinatubo eruption, 378–86
Second Thomas Shoal grounding and, 400–401
typhoons and, 237–42, 240, 244
U.S. military and, 119, 380–86, 389, 392, 418, 421, 422
Vietnamese refugees and, 299
WW II and, 155, 239–40
Philippine Sea, 378, 387, 413
Philippine Senate, 386
Phoenix Islands, 253
photosynthesis, 34, 325, 345
Piailug, Pius “Mau,” 434–39
pineapple plantations, 371–72
Pitcairn Island Group, 212, 216–20, 368
Pitt Rivers, Augustus, 352
Pitt Rivers Museum, 350–52
plastic debris, 362–66
plate tectonics, 21, 28, 311–16, 313, 323, 331, 430
plutonium, 20, 47, 57–58, 63–64
Pohnpei Island, 4, 238
Poland, 184, 185
Polaris (north star), 436
pollution, 25, 443. See also radioactivity
coral reefs and, 347–48
plastic debris, 362–66
Pol Pot, 178
Polynesia and Polynesians, 4–9, 21, 443. See also Hawaii; and other specific regions
Ellices Islands and, 9, 214
French nuclear tests and, 19
Hawaii and, 4–6, 9
home sea of, 431
migrations and navigation by, 125n, 126, 427–41, 444
Micronesia and, 43
surfing and, 27, 122, 127–33, 139–40, 142, 144–45, 149
Polynesian Voyaging Society, 435
Popular Science, 141
Port Arthur, 414
Port Dawin cable station, 232
Port Edward, 414
Port Moresby, 5
Portugal, 28, 228–29, 273, 414, 424
Poseidon aircraft, 404n
Potsdam conference (1945), 203, 393
ppwo and ppalu (Polynesian navigation
and navigators), 433–34, 434
President, USS (frigate), 152
Prinz Eugen (German cruiser), 12–13, 13n, 57
Project 4.1, 74
“Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm” (Cavanaugh), 325–26
Pueblo, USS (spy ship), 151–52, 156–76, 187, 158, 168
Pulama Lanai, 374
Pulau Island, 10
Pupukea, Hawaii, 144
QE75 pens, 200
Qingdao (formerly Tsingtao), 9, 408
Queen Elizabeth (liner), 190–99, 191, 202, 229
Queen Mary (liner), 192–94
Queensland, 212n, 220, 234, 281n, 293, 339, 341, 347–48
Quinn, Sally Mae, 108
Rabaul, 333
racism, 296–98
radioactivity, 32–37, 62–63, 67–78, 68, 218
radio transistor, 83–119
RAF bombers, 13n
Raffles, Stamford, 212
rafts, 126
Raiateans, 431
Ralik Chain (Sunset Chain), 49
Ramos, Fidel, 396
Rand Corporation, 381–82
Rapa Nui, 431. See also Easter Island
Ratliff, Smiley, 218n
rats, 357n, 362
RCA, 113
Réard, Louis, 43
Red Guards, 196
Redondo Beach, 135–37, 140
Red Sea, 343, 346
Reed Tablemount, 396
refugees, 298–303
Regency TR-1 radio, 105, 107
Riddiford, Charles, 153
Rifleman Bank, 396
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Coleridge), 356
Ring of Fire, 313, 315, 333, 378, 389
RMA (revolution in military affairs), 415n, 416
Roaring Forties, 309, 356
Robert Island, 396
Robeson, Paul, 285
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 19
Robinson family, 375
Rockhampton, Australia, 349
Rodney, Lord, 167
Roi-Namur Islet, 15
Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site (Kwajalein), 12
Rongelap Atoll, 52, 60, 64, 65, 70, 73–77, 78
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 46, 64–65
Roosevelt, Theodore, 367, 386, 411, 415
Rose Atoll, 367
Rosenbluth, Marshall, 71–72
Rossby waves, 262
Royal Charlotte Reef, 396
“Royal Sport, A” (London), 121, 133
Rusk, Dean, 154
Russia, 116, 190, 337, 362, 401n, 415, 416, 421n. See also Soviet Union
Russian Revolution, 24
Saarinen, Eero, 284
Sachon River, Korea, 172
Saigon, 203–4, 381
fall of, 209–11, 211
Saint Helena, 224n
Saipan, 45
Sakawa (cruiser), 56
Salton Sea, 308
Samar Island, 239
Samsung company, 113
San Andreas Fault, 316
Sanders, Don, 233
San Diego, 425
Sandwich Islands, 351
San Francisco, 118, 154
earthquake of 1989, 379
San Jose, 425
Sansha, China, 397–98
Santa Monica, 135
Sanyo company, 113
Saratoga, USS (ship), 79
Sarawak, 212
Sasebo, Japan, 115, 160n, 419
Satawal Island, 434, 436, 439
Scarborough Reef, 396, 400
Science, 325
science, Japan and, 101–2
Science for the Citizen (Hogben), 83
Scott, Robert F., 24
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 317
sea floor
mining, 332–37
spread of, 311–13, 316
seafloor massive sulfide (SMS) fields, 332–34
Sea Gate, New York, 139
sea level
eastern vs. western Pacific, 254
rising, 8, 261, 368
sea mammals, 250, 261
Sea of Japan (East Sea), 118, 159, 161
Sea of Okhotsk, 362
sea temperature
coral reefs and, 341, 346–47
El Niño, 255–56, 261
global warming and, 317–19, 263, 366
Seattle, 118
Seawise University project, 194, 197
Second Hawaiian Renaissance, 434–35, 439
Second Island Chain, 389n, 390, 412–13
Second Thomas Shoal, 396, 400
Selkirk, Alexander, 19
semiconductors, 97
Semipalatinsk nuclear tests, 32, 37
Senkaku Islands, 361, 409, 413, 422
Seoul, 154, 423
North Korean raid on, 162–64
Setagaya, Japan, 116
Shakespeare, William, 401
Shandong, China, 9
Shanghai, 5, 118, 424
Shangri-La mansion, 2
Sharp company, 113
Shen Neng 1 (coal carrier), 349
Shenzhen, China, 118
Shin Dong Hyuk, 181n
Shockley, Dr., 97
shrimp, deep-sea, 321
Siberia, 292
Sierra, 264
Silicon Valley, 96
Simpson, Frances, 352
Simpson, Sir George, 351–52
Singapore, 195, 204, 212, 393n, 396, 421, 422, 423
siphonophores, 327–28
Sir Alexander Grantham (fireboat), 198
Sleepy (transponder), 318
Slessor, Kenneth, 339
Slotin, Louis, 58, 67
Smith, David, 276
smokers, 306–8, 307, 328–33
black, 328–33, 331
white, 331
Snark (ketch), 130–31, 133
soft power projection, 241
Soil Machine Dynamics, 334–35
solar power, 373
Solomon Islands, 212, 214, 272
songun concept, 182
Sony Corporation (formerly Totsuko), 26, 85–86, 89–91, 93, 100, 106–14
Souers, Sidney, 41–42
South Africa, 122, 276
South America
El Niño and, 250, 255–56, 261
plate tectonics and, 316
Polynesians and, 125n
South China Sea
asylum seekers in, 299
Chinese claims in, 389, 392–425, 394, 399
Polynesian migration and, 430
Southeast Asia, 202, 211–12. See also specific countries
Southern Alps (New Zealand), 314
Southern Cross, 436, 438
Southern Hemisphere, stars of, 436, 437
Southern Ocean, 314, 356–57
Southern Oscillation, 254–55
South Georgia, 359
South Island, New Zealand, 314
South Korea, 176, 180, 183, 409
consumer electronics and, 113
division of North Korea from, 153–56
Pueblo and, 161–63
technology and, 26
trade and, 117, 118
U.S. bases in, 392, 418
South Pacific, 246, 309, 430
South Vietnam, 206, 208–9, 395n. See also Saigon; Vietnam War
Soviet Navy, 407
Soviet Red Army, 155
Soviet Union, 159, 185, 381
disintegration of, 412
Korea and, 153–56, 161
nuclear tests and, 32–33, 41–42, 53, 59, 67–68, 77, 307
Vietnam and, 31–32, 208
Spain, 8–9, 43–45, 190, 215, 424
Spanish-American War, 9
Spratley Islands, 394–95, 394, 398, 401n, 413
Sri Lanka, 290
SSBNs (super-secret ballistic missiles), 421
Stakes, Debra, 321
Stalin, Joseph, 31, 32
State Department, 240
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 6
Stirling, Australia, 420–21
Stonecutters Island, 226
storm intensity scales, 244–46. See also cyclones; hurricanes; typhoons
Strait of Magellan, 18, 19, 23
Strauss, Lewis, 75–77
Subic Bay Naval Base, 381–86, 384, 389, 421
submarines, Chinese, 386–88_, 387, 404–5
subsea dandelions, 324
Sulawesi, 301
sulfur, 322–25
Sumatra, tsunami of 2004, 379
Sumitomo Metal, 11
Sun Tzu, 377, 400
surf, defined, 124n
surfboards, 127–29, 141–47
surfing, 27, 121–49
contests, 140
Hawaiian social hierarchies and, 128–30
Surf Life Saving Association, 140
“Surf Riders Have Drawn Attention” (article), 136
swadeshi concept, 178
Sweden, 184–85
Sweet Caporal, 134n
Switzerland, 184–87
Sydney, 5, 234, 302
Harbour Bridge, 282
Opera House, 281–92, 286
Sydney Symphony, 283, 290–91
Sylvania company, 113
Syrian refugees, 301
Tacloban, Philippines, 239–41
Tahiti, 6, 9, 27, 218, 255, 431
voyage from Hawaii to, 435–39, 439n
Taiping Island, 401n
Taiwan, 113, 117, 119, 196–97, 352n, 393–94, 394, 401n, 409
Taiwan Strait, 422
Takanaka, Shigetaka, 11
Takekoshi, Yosaburo, 10
Taliban, 301
Tambora eruption, 379n
Tamil, 301
tape players, 111
tape recorders, 92–96
Tarawa, Kiribati, 18–19
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 305
Tet Offensive, 209
THAAD missile systems, 422
Thailand, 202n, 206
Tharp, Marie, 310–13, 316–17
Thatcher, Margaret, 222–24
thermocline, 262
thermohaline circulation, 247
Third Island Chain, 391, 392n, 412–14
Thirty-Eighth Parallel, 154–56, 154, 175
Thompson, Howard, 123
Thompson, Nainoa, 439
Thorne, Bazil, 289–90
Thorne, Graeme, 290
Tiananmen Square, 224–25, 228, 411n, 424
Time, 169
Tinian, 419
Titanic (liner), 308
Toho University, 359
Tokyo, 5, 25, 114, 116, 423
Tokyo Bay, 114, 116–18, 160, 386
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Company (Totsuko), 84, 89–91, 95–96, 98–100, 103
renamed Sony, 106
Tomahawk missile, 418
Tonga, 25, 31, 333
colonialism and, 212–14, 272
deep-sea mining and, 333, 334
Polynesian navigation and, 431, 437, 439
Tores Strait, 300
Torishima volcano, 358–62, 375
tornadoes, 236n
Torres Strait, 343
Toshiba company, 99, 113
Toyota company, 11, 115
trade, 26–27, 113–18, 424
trade winds, 4, 127, 248, 254–55, 261, 263–64, 438
transistor radio, 26–27, 83–119, 93
Triads, 197, 199
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