The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed …

For the next 80 years, the British Phosphate Commission, equally owned by Australia, New Zealand and the UK, mined Banaba so extensively that about 90% of …

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Consuming Ocean Island Stories Of People And Phosphate ...

Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans were relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji.

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An island destroyed: From tropical paradise to ghostly ...

"But then you get to Banaba and it looks like an old, dead, broken ghostly mining town." Beginning in 1900 and ending 80 years later, phosphate rock mining stripped away 90 per cent of the ...

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Banaba (Ocean Island) Story of Phosphate Mining - Banaban ...

Banaba has been left devastated by 80 years of phosphate mining by the British Phosphate Commission. The BPC was a joint government consortium of the British, Australian and New Zealand governments. Over an 80 year period from 1900 to 1979, 21 million tons of phosphate was removed from the Banaban homeland.

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Legacy of a Miner's Daughter: Banaba after Phosphate ...

Legacy of a Miner's Daughter and Assessment of the Social Changes of the Banabans after Phosphate Mining on BanabaBy Stacey King and Roabeia Ken Sigrah(Conference Paper) The global impact of phosphate discovery on Banaba society was assessed. The study analyzed the ongoing and continued societal changes of the islands indigenous inhabitants, known as Banabans during and after phosphate mining ...

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Mining the Pacific - Archives - ANU

Phosphate was important to Australia and New Zealand as a fertilizer for improving the quality of farming land. The indigenous people were paid for the phosphate, but as the photographs show the effect of the phosphate mining was immense. On Banaba/Ocean Island, between 1900 and 1979 mining stripped away 90% of the island's surface.

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Our Heart Is on Banaba: Stories From "The Forgotten People ...

Even if the community were to return to Banaba, most of the island was left virtually uninhabitable by the almost eight decades of phosphate extraction. The mining ended in 1979, when most of the phosphate deposits were depleted. "It's a very small island, and now most of the island has been mined, it's like going to the moon," Otiong says.

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The Black Knight, the Iron Maiden and a Pacific island ...

When the mining on Banaba ended in 1979, the royalty payments did too. It was a shock to the system on Rabi — school buses, food from the shop and medical care all dried up.

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Legacy of a miner's daughter and assessment of the social ...

The study analyzed the ongoing and continued societal changes of the islands indigenous inhabitants, known as Banabans during and after phosphate mining on Banaba (Ocean Island).

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A View of Phosphate Mining on Banaba

Buakonikai village 1932. This is the devastation left by Phosphate mining on Banaba, and shows the stark pinnacles left after mining is finished. At Buakonikai the depth of mining went down to 80 feet. Today from an original island consisting of 1,500 acres, only 150 acres around the shoreline remains unmined. The rest of the island, as seen in ...

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Banaba Today | Banaban Voice

The Banabans believe that Kiribati will hold on to Banaba in the hope of one day reopening the Phosphate mining that gave them their main source of income for all those years. In 1990 an Australian mining company were contracted to report on the feasibility of re-mining phosphate on Banaba.

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The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba.

Australia and New Zealand contributed to the destruction of te bangabanga during the 20th century through phosphate mining, which was begun by the Australian prospector Albert Ellis in 1900. For the next 80 years, the British Phosphate Commission, equally owned by Australia, New Zealand and the UK, mined Banaba so extensively that about 90% of ...

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19. Banaba - climate.gov.ki

Some phosphate resource remains on Banaba as the mining methods used by the British Phosphate Commission were not especially efficient. However it is unclear whether it is economically viable to resume phosphate mining, even if the difficult governance issues could be resolved. LAND OWNERSHIP AND USE In Banaba, the females were landowners and ...

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Phosphate mining and the relocation of the Banabans to ...

At the end of the xixth Century, Banaba was an unknown, and then 'unclaimed', island in the central Pacific; however, all was soon to change for its 450 residents. In 1900, a rock propping open a Sydney-office door of the Pacific Islands Phosphate Company was found to consist almost entirely of high-grade phosphate. It was soon traced back to the island; mining activity commenced shortly ...

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Banaban Vision Publications

Stacey M. King called Nei Titeiti Naking by the Banabans, is an Australian with four generations of her family involved with phosphate mining on Banaba from 1900. Led by family interest, she conducted her own research, visiting Rabi for the first time in 1991.

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Phosphate mining and the relocation of the Banabans to ...

extensive phosphate mining1. with deep, high-quality deposits still remaining in Banaba, and with postconlict peace returning to the region, the British Phosphate Commissioners (bpc) were keen to recommence their mining activi-ties in Banaba. As a result, the Banabans were prevented from returning to their island home.

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Consuming Ocean Island Stories Of People And Phosphate ...

Phosphate from Banaba takes up one of the Pacific's consummate colonial tragedies̶Australian John Arundel's discovery of phosphate-rich rock guano on the island and the subsequent mining by the British Phosphate Company (BPC). The BPC's mining wrecked Banaba, which forced the island's inhabitants into an ongoing exile in Fiji after ...

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week 9 Phosphate mining in Banaba and Nauru Lecture ...

View week 9 Phosphate mining in Banaba and Nauru Lecture summary.docx from GEO MISC at University of the South Pacific, Fiji. Assignment 3: Summary 1 Summary 2 …

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Banaba Island: Katerina Teaiwa lays bare the tragedy

All across the tiny Pacific island of Banaba thousands of pinnacles of sun-bleached coral rise in jagged formations, mute reminders of the phosphate mining carried out there last century by …

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Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate ...

Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans were relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji.

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Banaba, before and after mining – South Pacific economic ...

The small and beautiful island of Banaba (Ocean Island) in the Kiribati group was mined for rock phosphate from about 1906. The first photograph shows the island shortly before mining began. The second was taken soon after, and shows how the vegetation and soil of Banaba were removed to extract the phosphate rock.

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Ep. #26 Mining Banaba: Katerina Teaiwa talks mining ...

Ep. #26 Mining Banaba: Katerina Teaiwa talks mining phosphate & decolonising modern anthropology November 12, 2018 November 14, 2018 / Simon Theobald "The body of the people is in that landscape so when it's mined and crushed and dug up, you're not just doing it with rock, you're also doing it with people, with the remains of people ...

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Relocation Across Borders: A Prescient Warning in the Pacific

In December 1945 the population of the island of Banaba (also known as Ocean Island) in present-day Kiribati was moved to Rabi island in Fiji on account of on-going phosphate mining …

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Post News: Banaba: A Tropical Paradise Destroyed by Mining

Banaba's resident population was the final hurdle in the path to total mining of the island. With this taken care of, the British resumed phosphate mining until the rock was depleted by 1979. By then 90 percent of the island's surface was stripped away reducing it to a wasteland of rocky pinnacles. The island of Nauru suffered a similar fate.

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The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba

Australia and New Zealand contributed to the destruction of te bangabanga during the 20th century through phosphate mining, which was begun by the Australian prospector Albert Ellis in 1900. For the next 80 years, the British Phosphate Commission, equally owned by Australia, New Zealand and the UK, mined Banaba so extensively that about 90% of ...

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Phosphate mining and the relocation of the Banabans to ...

The tiny island was transformed into a major phosphate-mining settlement. With continued mineral extraction it became apparent that Banaba would, in time, become uninhabitable and plans were devised by colonial authorities to relocate the island community to an alternative home.

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#26 Mining Banaba: Katerina Teaiwa talks mining phosphate ...

"The body of the people is in that landscape so when its mined and crushed and dug up, you're not just doing it with rock, you're also doing it with people, ...

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Banaba Island: The land that died so others could live ...

Banaba was once filled with phosphate and it became victim to one of the world's largest environmental injustices. In 1900, the discovery of phosphate on Banaba by New Zealander Albert Ellis caused the beginning of systemic mining by the British Phosphate Commission (BPC). Not many Kiwis know that New Zealand was part of the BPC.

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Who are the Banabans

Melanesia. Before the phosphate mining in 1900s, Banaba was organized into districts with kainga, or hamlets, consisting of te utu, or family s, with couples, their children (both natural and adopted), and one or both sets of parents, who might stay for a period which each of their children throughout the year². 1 2 TEI BANABA

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CiteSeerX — Legacy of a Miner's Daughter and Assessment of ...

CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): The global impact of phosphate discovery on Banaba society was assessed. The study analyzed the ongoing and continued societal changes of the islands indigenous inhabitants, known as Banabans during and after phosphate mining on Banaba (Ocean Island). After twenty-four years since the cessation of mining on Ocean ...

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#26: Mining Banaba: Katerina Teaiwa talks mining phosphate ...

Katerina Teaiwa, Associate Professor at the School of Culture, History and Language at ANU, author of 'Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba', and current Vice-President of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies, spoke to our own Simon Theobald about phosphate mining on Banaba Island.

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Mining Ocean Island: Project Banaba opens today in Napier ...

The mining of Banaba to produce phosphate fertiliser is the subject of the new exhibition at MTG Hawke's Bay. Open to the public today is Project Banaba, an exhibition that tells the story of ...

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The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba

For the next 80 years, the British Phosphate Commission, equally owned by Australia, New Zealand and the UK, mined Banaba so extensively that about 90% of …

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Destruction Phosphate Mining | Banaban Voice

Mining 'topside' Buakonikai Village, Banaba 1968. . This is the devastation left by Phosphate mining on Banaba, and shows the stark pinnacles left after mining is finished. At Buakonikai the depth of mining went down to 80 feet. Today from an original island consisting of 1,500 acres, only 150 acres around the shoreline remains unmined.

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The Banabans of Rabi | New Zealand Geographic

Decades of phosphate mining on Banaba/Ocean Island left it unfit for growing and gathering food, so the islanders who lived there were resettled on Rabi in the Fiji group after WWII. Most remain on Rabi living a subsistence existence but some still dream of far-off Banaba, now part of Kiribati. A New Zealander invited to visit the Banabans of Rabi […]

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Banaba Island phosphate mining, mining 'topside ...

Banaba Island phosphate mining Phosphate mining in Banaba and Nauru - Wikipedi . ing in Banaba and Nauru. The economy of Nauru and Ocean Island has been almost wholly dependent on phosphate, which has led to environmental catastrophe on these islands, with 80% of …

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