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Adventurous Adaptability in the South Sea: Norwegians in ‘the Terrible Solomons’, ca. 1870–1930
Ist Teil von
Navigating Colonial Orders, 2014, p.187
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
I shall recount stories about the diverse activities and remarkable survival abilities of a handful of Norwegians who settled long ago in a certain Pacific archipelago, well-known to me through anthropological fieldwork over more than twenty-five years.¹ This is the Solomon Islands, a group of large, volcanic, mountainous islands covered in rainforest and fringed by coral reef lagoons and mangrove swamps, located in the tropical southwestern Pacific in the cultural and geographical region referred to as Melanesia or the ‘Black Islands’.
In 1897, the first resident representative of imperial rule in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, natural scientist Charles M.