Howland Island (USA)

• Howland - CIA World Factbook

• Baker und Howland: Office of Insular Affairs - Amerikanisches Innenministerium

• Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands National Wildlife Refuges - US Fish & Wildlife Service

• Howland - Jane Resture's Oceania Homepage

• Howland - US Coast Guard

• Solomon's Foreign Minister Sacked over proposed Russian link

  | 09.02.2012

  Only days after announcing his intentions to set up diplomatic ties with Russia, Solomon Islands Foreign Affairs minister, Peter Shanel was last night sacked by Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo.

• PNG campaign to reclaim small businesses

  | 09.02.2012

  A campaign has been launched in Papua New Guinea to remove control of the small business sector from foreign nationals and migrants - and return it to the indigenous people.

• Vanuatu cyclone damage assessment underway

  | 09.02.2012

  Cyclone Jasmine has left Vanuatu waters and is heading south into the open ocean, after leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.