Opium Wars and, 225
Pitcairn Island and, 216–20
state of, in 1950, 31
WW I and, 9–10
Britannia (royal yacht), 226–29
British Admiralty, 3
British Columbia, 262
British Commonwealth, 272
British Empire, 191, 252
British High Commissioner, 213
British Indian Army, 203, 205
British Royal Air Force, 195
British Royal Navy, 371, 393n
British Solomon Islands Protectorate, 214
British Virgin Islands, 224n
Brooke, Rupert, 6
Brookhaven laboratories, 73
Brookings Institution, 419
Broome, Australia, 299
Brown, Bruce, 144
Brown, H. Broomfield, 371–72
Brunei, 212, 394, 394
Bucher, Lloyd “Pete,” 158–69, 168, 173–74, 176, 187
Bulova Watch Company, 105, 107
Bumstead, Albert, 153, 309
Burma, 5, 176, 297, 300
Bush, George H.W., 386
Bush, George W., 367, 404
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 231
caballitos de totora (one-man rafts), 126–27
Cactus test, 78
Cahill, Joe, 284
Cairns, Australia, 299
Cairo declaration, 393
California, 425
Asian Exclusion Act, 293
El Niño and, 261
military bases, 381
surfing and, 122, 134–37, 139–40, 142
Call of the Wild, The (London), 130
Cambodia, 178, 209, 300, 369
Cam Ranh Bay, 422
Canada, 21, 295, 272, 332, 439
El Niño and, 262
transistor radios and, 83–85
Canadian First Nation, 21
Canberra, Australia, 234, 277
Canterbury, HMNZS (frigate), 216
Cape Horn, 3
Cape Tribulation, 343n
carbon cycle, 344
carbon dating, 33–37
carbon emissions, 264
Cardigan Bay (ship), 393n
Caroline Islands, 8, 434, 436
Carrier Strike Group Five, 386–89
Cascade Range, 264, 316
Castle Bravo test, 37, 66–78, 68
Cavanaugh, Colleen, 323–26
Cayman Islands, 224n
CBC, 84
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 422
Central Americans, 21
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 395n
Ceylon, 297
Chagos Bank, 343
Challenger, HMS (survey ship), 309
Chamorros, 8–9
Charles, Prince of Wales, 212n, 213–14, 226–28
Charlie atomic test, 64
Chatham, HMS (frigate), 228–29
chemical weapons, 20
chemosynthesis, 324–25
Cheney, Dick, 386
Chen Zhou, 416
Cherrapunji, Assam, 355
Chiba, Japan, 114, 116
Chile, 21, 25, 316
earthquake, 315
Chimbote, Peru, 249–50
China, ancient, 102
China, Communist, 28, 116, 337
Air-Sea Battle concept and, 410, 417–20
Australia and, 269, 292–93, 303
Australia and, 348–50
coral reefs and, 343
Cultural Revolution and, 196
defense spending, 414
El Niño and, 259
founded, 37
Hawaii and, 352n
Hong Kong and, 190, 196–97, 199–201, 213, 221–29, 227, 413
Japan and, 422
minerals and, 348
Moro people and, 241n
naval expansion and, 378, 384, 386–425, 387, 390–91, 394, 399, 405, 411
Nixon and, 25
North Korea and, 156
nuclear testing and, 33
Senkaku Islands and, 361
submarines, 387, 388, 418
Taiwan and, 197
technology and, 26
trade and, 116–19, 348–50
Typhoon Haiyan and, 238, 242
U.S. military and, 119, 381, 386–88, 387, 400–409, 405, 416–25
Vietnam and, 31–32, 208
China, Nationalist, 393, 397, 401. See also Taiwan
Chinese migrants, 21, 441
Australia and, 295
Hawaii and, 5
Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), 182, 394, 407–25
Chinese Politburo, 393
Chouinard, Yvon, 148
Christian, Fletcher, 216, 219
Christian, Steve, 219
Christian missionaries, 44, 50, 130–31, 212
nuclear tests, 18, 37
refugee camp, 300–302
tragedy of 2010, 302
Churchill, Sarah, 108
Churchill, Winston, 108, 203–5
Chuuk Island, 4, 10–11, 434
Cicero, 24
Ciliberti, Vincent, 108
Cincinnati Enquirer, 75
clams, deep-sea, 319–21, 324, 328–29
Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, 333
Clark, George “Grubby,” 143–47
Clark Air Base, 381–86, 384, 389
Clark Foam, 145–46
climate change, 262–65, 364, 366
coral reefs and, 342, 346–48
El Niño (ENSO) and, 254, 262
Madden-Julian Oscillation, 263
typhoons and cyclones and, 242–47
Clinton, Bill, 295
Clipperton Island, 216n
coal, 270, 348–50
Cocos Plate, 313, 316
Cohen, Albert, 85
Cold War, 33, 153, 381
Cold War, term introduced, 153n
Colombia, 21, 316
colonialism. See also specific colonies and colonial powers
end of, 27–28, 201, 190, 211–29
Hawaii and, 351–52
Micronesia and, 8–9, 43–45
Polynesian navigation and, 433–34
Columbia Pictures, 123
Communism. See Cold War; and specific countries
Compact of Free Association, 16
computers, 111
consumer electronics, 110–19
container shipping, 19, 117–18, 200, 363, 392, 393n
continental drift, 311–14
Cook, James, 3, 130, 212, 343n, 352, 431–32, 437
Cook Islands, 6
Copland, Aaron, 290n
copra plantations, 9, 19
coral polyps, 345
Coral Princess (ocean liner), 5
coral reefs, 22, 339–50
bleaching events, 340–42, 341, 345–47, 443
Chinese building on, 399
Coral Sea, 342
Coriolis, Gustave, 263
Corliss, Jack, 320–22
Corona del Mar, California, 140
Coward, Noël, 108
Cowpens, USS (destroyer), 407–9
crabs, deep-sea, 321, 324
Crescent Group, 396
Crick, Francis, 102
Crosby, Bing, 210
Crowley, Aleister, 291
crown-of-thorns starfish, 347–48
Cruise of the Snark, The (London), 133
Cuba, 347n, 401n
Cunard Line, 190–95, 191, 199–200
currents, 255
Curtiss, USS (seaplane tender), 70
Cyana (minisubmarine), 328
cyclones, 22, 232–37, 246–48, 253, 261. See also hurricanes; typhoons
defined, 236n
Tracy, 232–37, 235, 242, 245, 254, 264
Czechoslovakia, 184–85
da Gama, Vasco, 424
Daghlian, Harry, 58
Dalian, China, 118, 407
Darwin, Australia
asylum seekers and, 299,
301
atmospheric pressure tracking and, 255
Cyclone Tracy and, 231–37, 235, 239
U.S. Marine base and, 420
Darwin, Charles, 267
Dee, Sandra, 122, 124, 147
deep-sea research, 305–37
Defoe, Daniel, 19
Delmonico International, 108–9
Demon Core, 58, 67
Deng Xiaoping, 221–24, 411–13
Dennis, C.J., 292n
desalination plants, 374
Diamond Head volcano, 2
Diaoyu Islands, 409
Diego Garcia
evacuation of, for U.S. base, 51n–52n
NSA and, 157
Dien Bien Phu, Battle of, 189, 203, 207–8
Dingo Baby, 25
Dismissal, the, 268, 273–77, 299
Disneyland, 25
Divine, Jeff, 146
doldrums, 248, 438
Dole, James, 371
Dole Company, 262, 372
Donnelly, Jack, 320
Dopey (transponder), 318
dove, fruit-eating, 218n
Ducie atoll, 216
Duke, Doris, 2
Dutch colonies, 27–28, 190, 202, 212n, 424
Eagle Pull evacuation, 209
earthquakes, 21–22, 259, 358, 378–80
plate tectonics and, 310, 315–16
Earth Simulator 2, 259–60
East China Sea, 118, 408–9, 412, 417
Easter Island, 6, 430–32, 439
Eastman, George, 106
East Pacific Rise, 308–9, 315–23, 328
East Sea (Sea of Japan), 118
East Wind DF-21D antiship ballistic missile, 417–18
Ebeye Island, 14–17
Ecuador, 21, 261, 317, 372
Edinburgh, Tristan da Cunha, 138n
Edmond, John, 322–23
Eielson Air Force Base, 32
Einstein, Albert, 39
electric microgrid, 373n
Elizabeth, Queen Mother of England, 194
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 25, 213, 271, 281, 288–89
Ellice Islands (later Tuvalu), 9, 212, 214
Ellison, Larry, 369–75
El Niño, 249–64, 252, 258
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 427
endangered species, 350–57
Endeavour, HMS (ship), 343n, 431
Endless Summer, The (film), 144
energy
Australia and, 270
Lana’i and, 373
Enewetak, 68
islanders exiled, 78
nuclear tests, 37, 54n, 67n, 68n, 78
Enlightenment, 102
ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation), 254, 258, 259–62
environmental challenges, 28
climate change, 242–47, 254, 262–65, 342, 346–48, 364, 366
coral reefs, 340–50, 341, 443
endangered birds, 350–62
garbage gyre, 362–66, 364, 443
Lana’i Hawaii and, 369–75
overfishing, 366–68
sea level rise, 8, 261, 368
supranational regulation and, 366–68
seafloor mining and, 336–37
Enyu Island, 69
EP-3 spy plane incident, 402–4, 408
equator, Kiribati divided by, 19
eugenics, 97n
Everage, Dame Edna, 281
Evergreen container ships, 117
evolution, 353
Exodus, Book of, 50–51
experimentation, 101
explorations, 3, 23
“Eye, The” (Jeffers), 1
FA-18C Hornet fighter, 388
“face,” science and, 101–2
Facebook, 149
Falkland Islanders, 224n
Fanfare for the Common Man (Copeland), 290n
Fangataufa atomic tests, 37
Farragut, Admiral, 167
Farrelly, Elizabeth, 286–87
Fat Man bomb, 55, 67n
Ferrel cells, 262
Field, Sally, 122
Fiery Cross Reef, 398
Fiji, 212–14, 272, 368, 431
Fiji Museum, 214
Filipinos, 21, 441
Australia and, 293
Hawaii and, 5n, 371–72
Finney, Ben, 434–35
First Island Chain, 389, 390, 401, 412–13, 417
First Lightning (Joe 1) atomic test, 32
fishing, 19
El Niño and, 249
marine protected zones, 367–68
overfishing, 366–68
radioactivity and, 77
threat to birds, 362
“Five Visions of Captain Cook” (Slessor), 339
Fleming, Sandford, 8
Florida, 262, 343
Flying Fish Cove drownings, 302
Food and Drug Administration, 77
Forbes, 369
Ford, Alexander Hume, 131–33, 147
Ford, Gerald, 177
Ford Motors, 106
Formosa, 414
Fort Beatrice, 207
Fort Claudine, 207
Fort Eliane, 207
Fort Gabrielle, 207
Fort Huguette, 207
Fort Meade, 157, 159
Foster, Dudley, 328–29
Foxconn, 113
France
colonies, 190, 214–15, 214n-16n, 352, 424, 433, 437
Indochina and, 27, 32, 192, 202–9, 211, 397
nuclear tests and, 19, 33, 218
Overseas Collectivities, 215n
Pitcairn Island and, 218
surfing and, 140
Fraser, Malcolm, 271, 273–76, 299
Freeth, George, 132–34, 136–37, 139, 142, 147
French Polynesia, 215n
Freshwater Beach, Australia, 139
Friends of the Earth, 336
Fuchs, Klaus, 33
Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, 116, 379
fur seals, 261
Futtsu, Japan, 114
Futuna, 215n
Galápagos Islands, 48, 317, 327, 346, 353
Gallipoli, battle of, 278
Gambier Islands, 218n
Garden Island, 420–21
Gauguin, Paul, 5
Gehry, Frank, 281, 285
General Order No. 1, 155
Geneva peace conference (1954), 208
George, VI, King of England, 31
George (thermonuclear bomb), 42, 67
George Washington, USS (carrier), 241
German East Asiatic Squadron, 9
Germany, 409
colonies, 9–10, 44–45, 190, 211–12, 212n, 433
postwar recovery, 100–101
WWI and, 10
Giap, Vo Nguyen, 207–8
Gibraltar, 157, 224n
Gidget (Kohner), 122, 123, 147
films, 122, 123–25, 144, 147
Gilbert Islands (later Kiribati), 9, 18, 212, 214, 253
nuclear tests and, 19
girl surfing, 141–42
Gladstone, Australia, 343
Glenn, John, 214
Gloucester, Duke of, 213
Goat 315, 57
“God Save the Queen” (anthem), 269
Godzilla (black smoker), 332
Goniopora pandoraensis, 340, 345
Google, 149
Goossens, Eugene, 283–84, 290–92
Gracey, Douglas David, 203–6
Grand Budapest Hotel, The (film), 23
Grand Central Terminal, 31, 35
Graves, Alvin Cushman, 67–68, 68, 70–71, 73
Great Barrier Reef, 340–53, 341, 375
Great Moments of Humanity (Zweig), 23–24
Great Pacific Garbage Gyre, 362–66, 364, 443
Greek immigrants, Australia and, 294–95
Greenhill, Denis, 51n
Greenpeace, 336, 366
Grimble, Arthur, 6, 214
Guadalcanal, Battle of, 214
Guam, 1–4, 8–9, 32, 389n, 403, 409, 412, 425
U.S. bases in, 9, 418, 42
2
Guangzhou, China, 424
Guantánamo, 401n
Guatemala, 343
Guiuan, Philippines, 239
Gulf of Alaska, 314
Gulf of California, 308–9
Gulf of Tonkin, 393
gyres, defined, 364
Hadley cells, 262
Haeinsa monastery, 184
Hagåtña, Guam, 1, 3
Hainan Island, 393–94, 394, 398, 402–4, 414
Hamburger Hill, 209
Hanford, Washington, nuclear plant, 47
Hanson, Pauline, 296–98, 302
Hasegawa, Hiroshi, 356, 359–62, 361
Hauteclocque, Philippe Leclerc de, 205
Hawaii, 1–4, 116, 392n, 404, 406, 420
bird population, 350–55
care for earth and, 427
China and, 412–14, 425
cultural influences in, 5
diseases brought to, 130
El Niño and, 262
extinctions on, 357n
garbage gyre and, 364–65
independence movement, 352n
marine protected zones, 367
missionaries and, 44, 130–31
Navarre Plan and, 206
NSA and, 157
Polynesian culture and, 4–6, 9, 127
Polynesian navigation skills and, 4–5, 427–40
Pueblo and, 160
statehood and, 5
surfing and, 27, 122, 127–33, 139–40, 142, 144–45, 149
Typhoon Haiyan and, 237
U.S. Navy and, 423–24
Hawaiian Airlines, 439n
Hawaiian aristocracy, 128–29, 371
Hawaiian black-faced honeycreeper, 25
Hawaiian feather cloak (ahu’ula), 350–54, 351, 369
Hawaiian language, 5
Hawke, Bob, 276
Hayman Island, 348
Heaven’s Gate cult, 25
Heezen, Bruce, 310, 313, 316
Helen of Bikini (plutonium bomb), 13n, 61
Helen Reef, 396
Henderson Island, 216, 218
Henderson rail, 218n
Herbertshöhe, Papua, 45
Heyerdahl, Thor, 125–26, 429–30
Higuchi, Akira, 89
Hikianalia (sailing canoe), 439n
Hill of Difficulty (Pitcairn Island), 217, 220
Himalaya, SS (passenger ship), 290
Hinze, Kristy, 281n
Hinze, Russ, 281n
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 153
Hiroshima bombing, 46, 73, 77, 234
Hitachi, 99
Hobie Surfboards, 142–44, 143
Ho Chi Minh, 31, 35, 204n, 205–8
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 209
Hodges, Duane, 165, 170, 172–74
Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove, 341–42
Hogben, Lancelot, 83
Hokkaido, Japan, 117
Hokule‘a (sailing canoe), 427–29, 428, 435–41, 444
Holt, Harold, 268n
homosexuality, 199n
Honda, Soichiro, 89
Hong Kong, 118, 393n, 423
British citizenship and, 224n
British colonialism and, 190, 189–90, 192, 196, 201, 212–13, 216, 221–26, 272, 413
Chinese takeover of, 196, 221–29, 413, 414
Disneyland, 25
WW II and, 10
murder of homosexual in, 199n