Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 2000, "Asian" and "Pacific Islander" became two separate racial categories. [56] According to the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program (PEP), a "Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander" is, A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific islands.
Bribie Island - Remote beaches on Bribie were once popular with nudists, though Moreton Bay rangers as well as police now regularly patrol this remote island. Buchan Point, at the southern edge of Ellis Beach, 27 kilometres (17 mi) north of Cairns. [b] Cow Bay, two hours north of Cairns [4] within the Daintree Rainforest.
Miss Pacific Islands is a regional beauty pageant held in the Pacific Islands. The pageant was formerly known as the Miss South Pacific Pageant until it's name change in 2014. [ 1 ] The current reigning Miss Pacific Islands is Miss Samoa Litara Loma Leilani Ieremia-Allan who was crowned on 8 February 2025 in Honiara in the Solomon Islands .
Pacific Islander students need representation, financial support and, most importantly, recognition, she said. “Sometimes students don’t qualify for a lot of scholarships that could be ...
Asian and Pacific Islanders face a dearth of representation in the film industry, according to a new study.
Many Pacific Islander Americans are mixed with other races, especially Europeans and Asians, due to Pacific Islanders being a small population in several communities across the mainland US. American Samoa , Guam , and the Northern Mariana Islands are insular areas ( US territories ), while Hawaii is a state .
The Chamorro people (/ tʃ ɑː ˈ m ɔːr oʊ, tʃ ə-/; [4] [5] also CHamoru [6]) are the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between the United States territory of Guam and the encompassing Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Micronesia, a commonwealth of the US.
Presently the island is a National Wildlife Refuge run by the U.S. Department of the Interior; a day beacon is situated near the middle of the west coast. Westerners arrived in Caroline Islands in 1525, by the Portuguese Diogo da Rocha and his pilot Gomes de Sequeira, naming them the Sequeira Islands.