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Dictionary of New Zealand BiographyThis website contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on this country. It includes the collected biographies originally published in the printed Dictionary of New Zealand Biography series between 1990 and 2000, and in the parallel Maori-language series, Nga Tangata Taumata Rau. It does not include people who are alive.
Index New Zealand: INNZRMIT Publishing: Index New Zealand (INNZ) is an index with abstracts from selected New Zealand serial publications journals, including newspapers and nearly 300 journals about New Zealand and the South Pacific. INNZ is updated daily and approximately 2,000 documents are added monthly. Subjects covered include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities. Comprehensive coverage of titles extends from 1987 onwards. Many New Zealand titles have also been retrospectively indexed. This resource is available in alternative formats: Microfiche 1991-1992; 1996 available in the Newspaper Reading Room
Pacific Studies: WWW Virtual LibraryThis document keeps track of leading information facilities in the field of Pacific studies.
PADDLE: Pacific Archive of Digital Data For Learning and EducationUniversity of the South Pacific: Provides full text access to education material relating to fifteen Pacific nations. This includes publications from the participating Ministries of Education including strategic plans, education legislation, curriculum frameworks and school policies. It also contains national development plans, statistics and budget information. The participating countries are: Palau, Nauru, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Papers Past: New Zealand Newspapers and PeriodicalsNational Library of New Zealand: Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1932 and includes 52 publications from all regions of New Zealand. All newspapers can be browsed by date, region and title; in addition each newspaper has its own page containing information about the publication, including the date range which is available online and a link to an essay about the newspaper's history.
South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific (1760-1800)National Library of Australia: South Seas is an online information resource for the history of European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific between 1760 and 1800. South Seas offers the full text of the holograph manuscript of James Cook's Endeavour Journal, together with the full texts of the journals kept by Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson on the voyage. Also included is the text of all three volumes of John Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages undertaken ... in the Southern Hemisphere ... (1773). Volumes two and three of this work are an account of the Endeavour voyage fashioned by Hawkesworth from Cook's and Banks's journals. In order to help explain the complexities of eighteenth century and navigation, there is the complete text of the 1780 edition of William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine.
Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New ZealandMinistry for Culture and Heritage: Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand offers many pathways to understanding New Zealand. When complete, it will be a comprehensive guide to New Zealand's peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society. Te Ara consists of 9 themes, appearing progressively between 2005 and 2012: New Zealanders; Earth, Sea and Sky; The Bush; The Settled Landscape; Trade and Exchange; Connections; Nation; Daily Life and Creativity.
Te Puna Web DirectoryTe Puna Web Directory is a service provided by the National Library of New Zealand to enable Internet users to more easily find information relating to Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
These are general sites for researching the Pacific Ocean region on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to a diverse range of information on on the Pacific region as well as providing links to other useful sites.