With Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza in the lead roles, the musical South Pacific opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York on April 7, 1949, and ran for 1,925 performances. It was the fifth collaboration between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and...

The South Pacific is an area in the southern Pacific Ocean. The term may refer...

OVERFISHING THREATENS SOME TUNA VARIETIES In South Pacific, tuna nets may soon come up light Islanders complain that overfishing is depleting massive natural resource By CHARLES J. HANLEY Associated Press Sunday, July 25, 2004 In the Pacific off Funafuti,...

IFBB Update 2003 South Pacific Games welcome bodybuilding Next summer, more than 4,000 athletes and officials representing 22 countries will take part in the 12th South Pacific Games (SPG) from June 28 to July 12, 2003. Dr. Robin Mitchell, who is...

A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands on Monday, sending a tsunami wave crashing into the country's west coast and prompting region-wide disaster warnings, officials said.Sgt. Godfrey Abiah said police in the capital, Honiara, reported a wave several yards high had crashed ashore...

Soldiers involved in British nuclear bomb tests in the South Pacific demanded new medical research Tuesday into the effects of the radiation releases — 50 years after the blinding white flashes lit up a remote atoll.Servicemen suspect the high rates of skin cancer and health...