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...Around Marovo lagoon near an oil-palm plantation at Merusu, in the New Georgia island group, some 230 km northeast of Honiara, crude shanties of chainsaw-cut planks line the side of a wharf built from old logs, off-cuts, rocks and mud. The plantation is run by Malaysia's Silvania company; environmentalists say it is a front for a logging concern. The muddy village echoes with the sound of saws chewing through giant tree trunks. Until a few months ago, 16-year-old Leslie Pua called one of these shanties home, sharing a room with her eight siblings. Then...
...there's an edge to Gulpilil's laugh, there's good reason. Shot in a crocodile-infested lagoon just after last year's wet season, Ten Canoes was as thrilling in the making as it is on screen (its filming will be the subject of an SBS documentary, Eighteen Canoes, to be aired close to the film's Australian release in June). For up to seven hours a day, director and crew would wade through thick swamp, with crocodile spotters on platforms above. "It really was the leeches getting you from the waist down; mosquitoes from above the waist," says...
...After the war, Gasa and his wife Nelma raised six children, living off coconuts and other crops grown in Kauvi, and fish caught in Vonavona lagoon. Little of the outside world has crept into the village; most of the residents are the old man's descendants, who still live from the sea and their gardens. Only rarely does Gasa leave the island. He and Kumana, who lives on Ranongga Island near Gizo, were invited by President Kennedy to his 1961 inauguration. But the pair never got to Washington; they were duped en route in Honiara, the capital, by colonial officials...
...most valued piece of police equipment in these parts. Before ramsi, there was no police boat or vehicle, and local officers often had to borrow canoes or walk long distances to bring in a suspect or respond to a call for help. On a cloudy, humid afternoon, in Roviana lagoon, south of Munda, RSIP officer Ege Saro skippers the inflatable around shallow-lying coral reefs. Reaching open water, he pushes it to a zippy, if bumpy, 27 knots. After a 50-min. journey, the boat arrives at Rendova Island, and Curragh and Sergeant Allenson Tiazy jump from the boat onto...
...nearby Nusa Roviana, once the coral-walled fort of notorious head-hunter Ingava, Curragh and skipper Saro have come to see the chief, John Boi. As light rain falls through a canopy of coconut palms, the police tramp a muddy path. Earlier in the day, 4 km across the lagoon, Dunde village was swept by a rumor that Chief Boi had banned a local candidate in tomorrow's provincial election from campaigning in Nusa Roviana. Dunde's chief, Eki Lee Daga, informs Curragh that men armed with sticks and knives are preparing to cross the channel in canoes...