Our cultural and development pages distinguish supplied family context, published research and the mine operator’s statements. We welcome corrections.
Discover the wider record
Our growing archive directory links to university photographs, museum records, traveller journals, public community posts and the Misima documentary. The history page connects these sources to the island journal.
Published references
- Australian Museum — Pacific Voyaging: Sailing Imperative (2017): Massim heritage, matrilineal descent and Kula exchange.
- Assessing Human Genome-wide Variation in the Massim Region… (2022): regional population history, Lapita context and Misima’s Kula connections.
- AusIMM — Communication: The Misima Story (1991): Misiman matrilineal society.
- Kingston Resources: 2025 Misima project divestment.
- Ok Tedi — June 2026 community engagement update.
- Ok Tedi — July 2026 aerodrome announcement.
Language & dictionary
Misima Dictionary, compiled by Sandra Callister and others, illustrated by Elijah Fifita, Michael Harrar and others, Summer Institute of Linguistics, revised and reprinted 2005. Original PDF supplied for this website. Vocabulary references appear on the language page.
Wartime photographs & island news
Coral Sea photographs: U.S. Navy / Naval History and Heritage Command, reproduced from the official 2017 government reprint. Printed pp. 20, 28 and 32; original black-and-white photographs extracted and converted to WebP. Public-domain U.S. government material. These depict the naval battle, not scenes ashore on Misima.
News sources: NBC PNG, Ok Tedi Mining Limited, EMTV and named voyage creators. Dates, attribution and original links appear with each story.
Photographs
Coral cliffs of Misima: W. Kessler / NOAA PMEL, public domain under NOAA’s image reuse guidance. Resized and converted to WebP.
The regional satellite view is a public-domain NASA Earth Observatory MODIS image (11 September 2002), downloaded from NASA and converted to WebP. Original image and context.
The founding collection contains 15 photographs supplied for this website by Tāmati Norman / PNG Direct. Location names for Ewena, Nulia and Bwagoia come from the supplied filenames. Generic image titles describe the visible scene and do not assert identities or dates.
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