AMERICAN SAMOA
Population: 62,600
Five volcanic islands and two coral atolls
Covering 199 square kms.
Capital: Pago Pago
Language: Samoan/English.
Contact:
Ms. Kalameli Tuitele-Timu,
Office of Media Communications Development
Diocese of Samoa, Pago Pago
PO Box 596
Pago Pago, AS 96799
American Samoa
Email: ktimu.dspp@ymail.com.
AUSTRALIA
Population: 22 million.
A continent/island,
Australia is geographically the sixth largest country on earth.
Capital: Canberra.
Language: English. (127 others and numerous indigenous.)
Contacts:
Richard Leonard sj
P.O. Box 1409,
North Sydney NSW 2059,
Australia.
Email: richard.leonard@bigpond.com
Peter Thomas,
Signis Pacific Secretariat,
Box 12
16 Armstrong Street
Middle Park, Vic 3206
Australia.
Email: peter@signispacific.org
COOK ISLANDS
Population: 14,000.
(Approx. 40,000 Cook Islanders live in New Zealand and Australia.)
Coral atolls and volcanic islands over 240 square kms.
Capital: Avarua on Raratonga.
Language: Cook Island Maori/English.
Contact:
Bishop Stuart O'Connell SM
Catholic Mission
PO Box 147,
Avarua, Raratonga
Cook Islands
Email: sbish@oyster.net.ck
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
Population: 112,700
Four major island groups-
Pohnpei, Chuuk, Kosrae, and Yap.
607 islands over 2.6 million sq.kms.
Capital: Palikir on Pohnpei
Language: Several Micronesian and English.
Contact:
Sister Carmen Dasko William MMB
Kselehlie TV Productions
PO Box 1970,
Kolonia,
Pohnpei FM 96941
Email: daskommb@yahoo.com
Bishop Amando Samo
Bishop's House
PO Box 250
Chuuk State, 96942
Fed. States of Micronesia
FIJI ISLANDS
Population: 836,000
The Melanesian archipelago covers 18,000
Sq.kms.with 332 islands
Capital: Suva.
Language: Bauan,Hindi, Fijian Dialects and English.
Contact:
Agatha Maria Ferei Furivai
Fiji Media Watch
PO Box 16262,
Suva
Fiji Islands
Email: fmwatch@unwired.com.fj
FRENCH POLYNESIA
Population: 250,500
Five archipelagos over a total
of 3,941 sq,kms.
Capital: Papeete
Language: Tahitian and French.
Contact: Leopold Ariipeu
PO Box 94
Papeete 98713
Tahiti
French Polynesia.
Email: catholic@mail.pf
leoariipeu@yahoo.pf
GUAM
Population: 166,100
Largest Island in the Marianas group.
541 sq.kms.
A territory of the United States.
Capital: Agana.
Language: Chamorro, Japanese and English.
Contact: Brigido Arroyo
PO Box 1567
Agana
Guam 96932
Email: padrebibi@yahoo.com
KIRIBATI & NAURU
Population: 93,000
Over 3 million sq.kms are three coral
Island groups. 33 atolls.
Capital: Tarawa.
Language: I-Kiribati (Gilbertese), English,Nauruan.
Contact: Sr Teneti Bakarereua
St. Paul's Communication Centre
PO Box 79, Bairiki, Tarawa
Republic of Kiribati
Email: st.paul.ccc@tskl.net.ki
MARIANA ISLANDS
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Population: 78,000.
North Pacific. 477 sq.kms.
Capital: Saipan
Language: Chamorro, Carolinian, English.
Contact: Fr. Ryan Jimenez
PO Box 500745
Saipan, MP96950
Email: ryansaipan@pticom.com
MARSHALL ISLANDS
Population: 55,400.
30 atolls and 1,152 islands provide a land area of
182 sq.kms.
Capital: Majuro on Kwajalein.
Language: Two Melanesian dialects, Japanese and English.
Contact: Mgr. Raymundo Sabio MSC
Catholic Mission,
PO Box 8, Majuro
Marshall Islands
Email: prefecture.marshalls@gmail.com
haeyangrts@yahoo.com
NEW CALEDONIA
New Caledonia and Dependancies.
A territory administered by France.
Population: 236,900.
19,000 sq.kms. Grande Terre, Loyalty Is, Ile de Pins
and the Belep. Other islands are small and uninhabited.
Capital: Noumea.
Language: French. Melanesian-Polynesian dialects.
Contacts: Nicole Constans
13 rue Tourville 98800
Noumea
New Caledonia
Email: nico.set@offratel.nc
Archbishop Michel Calvet sm,
BP 3, 4 rue Mgr-Fraysse,
Noumea.
New Caledonia
Email: archeveche@ddec.nc
NEW ZEALAND / AOTEAROA
Population: 4,290,043
Two main islands- the North & South.
Total area 269,057 sq.kms.
Capital: Wellington.
Language: English, Indigenous Maoris.
Contact: Angela Pyke
New Zealand Cath. Bishops Conf.
Email: communication@nzbc.org.nz
PALAU (BELAU)
Population: 20,700
Languages: Belauan & English.
Contact: Fr. Jim Gould SJ
PO Box 128, Koror, Palau PW96940-0128
Email: jcgouldsj-palau@yahoo.com
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Population: 5,695,300
461,691 sq.kms.main island.
600 smaller islands.
Capital: Port Moresby
Language: 750 indigenous.
English, Pidgin and Motu.
Contact: Fr. Geoffrey Lee,
PO Box 3
Lae, Moroke Province, 411
Papua New Guinea.
Email: socom@global.net.pg
SAMOA
Population: 182,700
Two main islands and a number of smaller islands.
Land mass: 2,831 sq.kms.
Capital: Apia
Language: Samoan and English.
Contacts: Fr. Fereti Tautunu
PO Box 532
Apia
Samoa
Email: archdiocese_tautai@samoa.ws
f_tautunu@yahoo.com
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Population: 460,100
An archpelago that consists of several hundred islands.
There are six main islands.
Land mass: 28,446 sq.kms.
Capital: Honiara.
Language: Pidgin, 90 Melanesian & Polynesian and English.
Contact: Ambrose Pereira sdb
Catholic Communications Solomons
PO Box 647
Honiara
Solomon Islands
Email: ambrose@donbosco.org.sb
TONGA & NIUE
Kingdom of Tonga
Population: 98,300.
169 islands with 3 principal island groups.
Land mass: 699 sq.kms.
Capital: Nuku'alofa
Language: Tongan and English
Contact: Viliami Falekaono
Director, Catholic Communications,
PO Box 1
Nuku'alofa
Tonga
Email: cath-com@kalianet.to
TUVALU
Population:9,043.
Nine atolls with a land mass of
26 sq.kms.
Capital: Funafuti
Language: Tuvaluan and English.
Contact: Camille Desrosiers sm
Teone Catholic Centre
PO Box 58
Funafuti
Tuvalu
(Via Fiji)
Email: cathcent@tuvalu.tv
VANUATU
Population: 173,648.
13 large islands and 70 islets.
Land mass: 14,760 sq.kms.
Capital: Port Vila
Language: Bislama, French and English.
Contact: (See New Caledonia)
Email: katolikmedia@vanuatu.com.vu
WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS
An overseas territory of France.
Population: 14,499.
Volcanic islands in the South Pacific.
Land mass: 274 sq.kms.
Language: Wallisian and French.
Contact: Fr Falelavaki Tamcha Falelmaka
BP 150
98600 Uvea
Wallis et Futuna
Email: com.falemaka@wallis.co.nc
Other Pacific Countries:
NORFOLK ISLAND (Contact: Australia.)
TOKELAU (Contact Samoa)
SIGNIS Pacific Secretariat
Contact: Peter Thomas
Secretary/Treasurer
SIGNIS Pacific Secretariat
Box 12, 16 Armstrong Street,
Middle Park Vic 3206
AUSTRALIA
Tel: 61 3 9682 1085
Fax: 61 3 8611 7956
M. 0419 899 199
Email: peter@signispacific.org
SIGNIS Pacific Executive
President: Ambrose Pereira SDB, Solomon Islands
V. President: Nicole Constans, New Caledonia.
Secretary/Treasurer: Peter Thomas, Australia.
Imm. Past Pres: Viliami Falekaono
International Board Members:
Peter Thomas, World Vice President.
Ambrose Pereira SDB, Pres. SIGNIS Pacific.
Agatha Maria Ferei Furivai, Int. Board. Rep.
