Topic: Oceania
Australian green activists expressed outrage at a government decision to allow energy giant Shell to drill for gas at a pristine reef that was listed as a World Heritage site just two weeks ago.Ningaloo Reef is considered a natural wonder, sprawling some ...
Museums are vying to display the remains of New Zealand's most famous sheep, Shrek, and a church memorial in his honour has been postponed to accommodate global media interest, reports said Friday.The merino became a celebrity in 2004, when he was found ...
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An elderly koala stolen from an Australian wildlife park by bolt-cutter wielding thieves was returned home unscathed, with an anonymous phone tip-off leading keepers to a rubbish bin in the zoo's parking lot."Banjo" the koala went missing earlier ...
The Natural History Museum in London has agreed to return 138 sets of skeletal remains of indigenous people to Australia, in what it hailed as a new approach to the delicate subject of repatriation.The museum will return the remains to the Torres ...
The Natural History Museum in London said on Thursday that it has agreed to return 138 sets of skeletal remains of indigenous people to Australia, in what it hailed as a new approach to the delicate subject of repatriation.The museum will return ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) -- The remains of 138 indigenous people from the Torres Strait Islands are set to be repatriated after they were removed at the behest of a missionary during the 19th century, London's Natural History Museum said on Thursday.The museum ...
For decades, New Zealand has campaigned for museums to repatriate the mummified and heavily-tattooed heads of Maori warriors held in collections worldwide -- now it must decide what to do with the gruesome but culturally valuable relics. New Zealand's national museum Te ...
, is situated between the beautiful Waitemata Harbour and the Manukau Harbour. Auckland is the perfect place to start your New Zealand holiday, before venturing off to other spectacular regions of the North or South Islands.. Free attractions that can be found ...
The foolhardy go swimming in the turbulent water and sometimes have to be rescued when the river rises. Sacred to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people, it is a living record of the evolution of Australia's plants and animals over the last 400 ...
For example, institutions funded by the national government-national museums-may hold outstanding international collections, as do the British Museum, the Hermitage, and the Louvre; may hold specialized collections, as do a number of the national museums of antiquities on the European continent; or ...
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Björk - Oceania
Music video by Björk performing Oceania. (C) 2004 Wellhart ...2010-02-23 -
Oceania - Always (Original Mix) [Full Version ...
One of the best trance that i have ever heard ...2009-01-19 -
Oceania anthem "Oceania, 'Tis for Thee"
Oceania anthem Strong and peaceful, wise and brave, Fighting the ...2008-09-28
