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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, Robert, 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
French Indochina and, 203–6
Hong Kong and, 216, 221–29, 227
marine protected zones and, 368
NSA and, 157
nuclear tests and, 18–19, 33