TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,R.W.
TI  - Fire Mountains of the Islands: A History of Volcanic Eruptions and Disaster Management in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
SN  - 9781922144232
AV  - HV551.5.S575 -- J64 2013eb 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Canberra
PB  - ANU Press
KW  - Volcanic eruptions--Soloman Islands
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Preliminary pages -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements and Sources -- Volcano Names and Totals -- 1. Burning Islands and Dampier's Voyage: 1700 -- Track of the Roebuck -- Near Oceania, Melanesia and Melanesians -- Early Ideas about Volcanic Activity -- Preview -- 2. Volcano Sightings by European Navigators: 1528-1870 -- Saavedra, Retes and Mendaña -- Schouten, Le Maire and Tasman -- Carteret, Hunter, D'Entrecasteaux and ParkerWilson -- European and Melanesian Viewpoints -- 3. European Intruders and the 1878 Rabaul Eruption: 1870-1883 -- Blanche Bay and the Tolai -- Miklouho-Maclay -- Traders, Missionaries and a GentlemanExplorer -- 1878 Eruption at Rabaul -- Powell's Voyage and a Possible Eruption 'Pulse' -- Volcanological Events Elsewhere -- 4. Volcanic Events of the German Era: 1884-1914 -- Colonial Partitioning -- Ritter Island Disaster -- Hahl and Sapper -- Time Cluster of Eruptions -- 5. Australian Colonists and the Volcanoes of Mainland New Guinea:1849-1938 -- First Impressions -- British New Guinea and Victory Volcano -- Evan R. Stanley in Papua -- Australians in the Territory of New Guinea after 1920 -- Australians in the Territory of Papua before 1938 -- 6. Calderas, Ignimbrites and the1937 Eruption at Rabaul: 1914-1940 -- Garrison Life and Volcanoes -- Australian Expedition along the Bismarck Volcanic Arc -- Calderas and Ignimbrites -- Eruption at Rabaul in 1937 -- Subsequent Investigations at Rabaul -- 7. Eruptions during the Pacific Warand Postwar Recovery: 1941-1950 -- Fisher and Renewed Activity from Tavurvur -- Kizawa and the Sulphur Creek Observatory -- Eruptions at Goropu Volcano, Papua -- Hiroshima, Surges and Postwar Recovery -- Changing the Volcanological Leadership -- 8. Disaster at Lamington: 1951-1952 -- Higaturu and the Orokaiva -- Build-up to Catastrophe -- Relief and Recovery -- Seeking Explanation and Meaning -- Aftermath; 9. Tony Taylor and an Eruption Time Cluster: 1951-1966 -- Eruptions of 1951-1957 -- Experiments in Prediction -- Long Island Evacuation of 1953-1954 -- Bam Tragedy of 1954-1955 -- Evacuation of Manam and the 1956-1966 Eruptions -- Tuluman 1953-1957 and the Obsidian Minersof Lou -- 10. Plate Tectonics and False Alarms:1960-1972 -- Advances in Science and Technology -- Gas Emissions from Two Highlands Volcanoes -- Volcanic-Disaster Preparations at WauTownship in 1967 -- Evacuation from Dawson Strait in 1969 -- Origin of the Dawson Strait Earthquakes and a Note on Volcanic False Alarms -- Tectonic Earthquakes and the End of theTaylor Era -- 11. Cooke-Ravian and a Volcanic Resurgence: 1971-1979 -- New Eruption Time Cluster -- Ulawun and the Threat of Cone Collapse -- Long Island Disaster and Tibito Tephra -- Yomba and Cook: Two 'Mystery' Volcanoes -- Fatal Eruption on Karkar in 1979 -- 12. Eruption Alert at Rabaul Caldera:1971-1994 -- Crisis Build-up and Stage-2 Alert -- Scientific Responses to the Caldera Unrest -- Worldwide Volcanic Crises and Developments in Risk Awareness -- Costs, Benefits and Crisis Decline: 1985-1994 -- Volcanic Alert on Simbo Island -- 13. Eruptions at Rabaul: 1994-1999 -- First Three Weeks -- Physical Damage -- Post Mortem and New Directions for RVO -- Ongoing Eruptions and New Insights -- Restoring the North-eastern Gazelle Peninsula -- 14. Eruptions of the Early Twenty-first Century: 1998-2008 -- International Developments and Modern Near Oceania -- Ulawun: A Decade Volcano -- Ulawun 2000: A Short-lived, Powerful Eruption -- Pago 2002-2003: An Unexpected Eruption -- Threat of a Caldera-Forming Eruption at Pago-Witori -- Manam 2004-2005: Abandoning a Volcanic Island? -- Rabaul 2006 and other Volcanic Crises in1999-2007 -- 15. Reassessing Volcanic Risk in the North-eastern Gazelle Peninsula: 2000-2012 -- Restructuring a Society; Volcanic Hazards -- Early Warnings and a New Model for Rabaul Volcano -- Determining Risk Today -- 16. Historical Analysis and Volcanic Disaster-Risk Reduction -- Patterns in the Historical Record -- Evacuations, Early Warnings and False Alarms -- Artefacts and Oral Traditions -- International Disaster-Risk Reduction -- Observatories and Volcanic Disaster-Risk Reduction -- Strengthening At-Risk Communities in Near Oceania -- An Epilogue -- Appendix: Acronyms and Glossaries -- Index
N2  - Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.This book reviews what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today
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