Pacific history

Archives and manuscripts | Newspapers | Government documents | National bibliographies | Statistics

Archives and manuscripts

• Western Pacific Archives
  The Western Pacific Archives (WPA) contains the records of the British colonial administration in the Western Pacific from 1877-1978.
• The Chapman Archive
  New Zealand’s largest and most comprehensive collection of broadcast news and current affairs.
• Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
  Copies of non-governmental archives and manuscripts are available in the Microtexts Room.
• Other research collections

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Newspapers

Cook Islands

• Cook Islands news

Fiji

• Fiji times

Papua New Guinea

• Papua-New Guinea post-courier and selective index

Samoa

• Samoa observer
• Samoana
• Savali
• Papers Past
  1877-1920

Solomon Islands

• Solomon star

Tonga

• Taumu'a lelei
• Kalonikali Tonga = Tonga chronicle
• Taimi o Tonga

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Government documents

Official government documents include publications of the executive, legislative and judicial arms of government. Search the Catalogue for the name of the country, department or ministry as the author or subject.

Gazettes

A gazette is the official newspaper of a Government and reports a wide variety of detail about its day to day business including proclamations, Orders in Council, a summary of parliamentary proceedings, government notices, some official appointments, notices regarding public lands and, periodically, lists of members of some professional groups such as teachers and medical practitioners.

• Fiji government gazettes
• Tonga government gazette
• Western Pacific High Commission gazette

Statutes and regulations

• PacLII
  Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute index and databases. Legislations, Statutes and Court cases and decisions are searchable by country and subject.

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National bibliographies

• Fiji national bibliography 1979-1985
• Hawaiian national bibliography 1780-1900
• New Guinea bibliography 1967-1980, continued by Papua New Guinea national bibliography
• Samoa: A national bibliography
• Tokelau national bibliography = Fakamaumauga o na tuhituhiga o Tokelau

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Statistics

• OFFSTATS
  A database of official sources of statistics from all parts of the world.
• PRISM
  Pacific Regional Information System maintained by the South Pacific Secretariat, Noumea, New Caledonia provides country statistics from the Pacific Islands.

Yearbooks

Yearbooks provide basic statistical data.

• Pacific Islands yearbook 1932-1994
• Statistical yearbook for Asia and the Pacific
• Statistical indicators for Asia and the Pacific

Statistics relating to the Pacific are located in the Statistics Collection on Level M, General Library.

Statistics are arranged by subject/keyword rather than standard call numbers.
S1 Non-governmental, followed by the organisation abbreviation (EU, FAO, ILO, IMF, OECD, UN, WB).
S2 National statistics, followed by the country abbreviation, followed by a code based on a subject keyword.

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Organisations, conferences and proceedings

• Pacific History Association (PHA)
  • Upcoming and past conferences of the PHA are listed on the website.
• Pacific Islands Political Studies Association
  • PIPSA Conferences (PIPSA)

History style

• The referencing style recommended for History students is in the History course work guide 2014.

Support

• Referencing
  Access a range of tools and support material to assist your referencing work.

Examples

• Quick©ite
  Use this interactive tool to view examples of references.
  Covers a range of styles used at the University of Auckland.