Kinship and descent may have been organized around matrilineal clans, a common pattern in Micronesia. |
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Within the Pacific Islands region are the subregions of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. |
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But more than half of that went to the country's satellite states in Micronesia, such as Guam and the Northern Marianas. |
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I lived in Micronesia for 5 years and had to mail my passport to Australia, which was complicated. |
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Tonga and the Federated States of Micronesia have started to develop national disaster risk reduction action plans. |
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The EU and the Federated States of Micronesia, opposed by Brazil, India and China, supported the inclusion and discussion of this issue. |
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All residents speak Marshallese, an Austronesian language that shares numerous affinities with other Pacific languages, particularly those of eastern Micronesia. |
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The EU can probably afford to ignore Papua New Guinea and Micronesia, but someone, somewhere, will find reasons why they are important too. |
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Coast Guard Sector Guam and asked to assist with a search and rescue mission off the coast of Chuuk Island, Micronesia. |
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Such proscriptions and taboos for the private life of the king are especially evident in Africa but also occur in Polynesia and Micronesia, East Asia, and the ancient Middle East. |
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A 42-square-mile island, it is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia. |
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I found secret websites in Micronesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, registered to shell corporations in Panama, the true proprietors being anyone's guess. |
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The housing is rather more substantial than the shacks of the impoverished atolls of south-west Micronesia, where the economy is still based on fish and coconuts. |
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The Federated States of Micronesia, for AOSIS, expressed continued concern with implications of LULUCF proposals for accounting and transparency and stressed the need to consider quantitative impacts of the proposals. |
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To give an example as anecdotal as that used by Mr Martinez, I would also point out that in Micronesia too, in the Samoan Islands, there are people who are obese. |
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Malnutrition among children under 5, close to zero in most Polynesian countries, lies between 6 and 27 per cent in the Solomon Islands, Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of the Marshall Islands. |
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I wish to extend our profound thanks and appreciation to the peoples and Governments of Panama, Micronesia, Maldives and Palau for supporting the right of the people of Kosovo to freedom and independence. |
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Anyway, I wanted to raise this issue of the conversation with the president of Micronesia, because I was very touched by what he had to say to me. |
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We thank the Assembly for its acknowledgement of this approach and of the Micronesia Challenge itself, as well as for its call for continued international support. |
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Micronesia has entered the HDI table for the first time this year, while Zimbabwe has re-entered after not being included in 2009 due to missing income values. |
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Blondism artificially produced in Micronesia and Melanesia as in Polynesia indicates a blond element in the last conquering immigration. |
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Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, to the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia to renovate a hospital there. |
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In 1914, Japan joined the Entente during World War I and captured various German Empire colonies, including several in Micronesia. |
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The islands entirely within the Pacific Ocean can be divided into three main groups known as Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. |
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German colonial administrators introduced roe deer to the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia. |
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The meat is openly sold in markets and restaurants in Kolonia, the capital city of Pohnpei and the Federated States of Micronesia. |
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Today karats are rarely eaten in Micronesia because imported foods have grown in popularity. |
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I met with the president of Micronesia at the UN in June, and he implored me for assistance because they are now shipping rice to neighbouring island states because their terrace fields are flooding with salt water. |
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The Federated States of Micronesia, on behalf of PACIFIC SIDS, underscored the difficulty in accessing international finance, and the possibility that some islands would be made uninhabitable due to climate change. |
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Until then the islands had belonged ecclesiastically to the Vicariate Apostolic of Micronesia. |
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Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia. |
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This policy was the government strategy not only in the Marshall Islands, but on all the other mandated territories in Micronesia. |
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Three major groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean are Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. |
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Mortlockese is an Austronesian language made up of eleven dialects over the eleven atolls that make up the Mortlock Islands in Micronesia. |
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Micronesia began to be settled several millennia ago, although there are competing theories about the origin and arrival of the first settlers. |
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In the Federated States of Micronesia, one must be a Micronesian citizen for at least 15 years to run for parliament. |
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Implementation of chemoprophylaxis in Pohnpei state, Federated States of Micronesia. |
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The United States acquired Micronesia as a trust territory in 1945 following its liberation from the Japanese. |
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In Polynesia and Micronesia, most societies are small and mono-cultural. |
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The Art of Oceania includes the geographic areas of Micronesia, Polynesia, Australia, New Zealand, and Melanesia. |
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Politically they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end. |
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Later, Germany further expanded its colonial empire to include German New Guinea, German Micronesia and German Samoa in the Pacific, and Kiautschou Bay in China. |
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Kosrae Visitors Bureau, an agency that promotes tourism in Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia, has announced a 'Picture Yourself on Kosrae' Video Contest. |
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Allied naval forces captured many of the isolated German colonies, with Samoa, Micronesia, Qingdao, German New Guinea, Togo, and Cameroon falling in the first year of the war. |
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Member states of the UPU are the Vatican City and the 193 UN members except Andorra, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. |
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The remains of at least 25 miniature humans, who lived between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, were recently found on the islands of Palau in Micronesia. |
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The Federated States of Micronesia consists of 607 islands extending 1,800 miles across the archipelago of the Caroline Islands east of the Philippines. |
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Japan joined the allies in World War I, and after the war acquired the South Pacific Mandate, the former German colony in Micronesia, as a League of Nations Mandate. |
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The islands share maritime boundaries with the Federated States of Micronesia to the west, Wake Island to the north, Kiribati to the southeast, and Nauru to the south. |
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The German Empire had primarily economic interests in Micronesia. |
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The Ahmadiyya mosque in Marshall Islands is the only mosque in Micronesia. |
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