Use this resource to hear the songs and sounds from the PARADISEC archive.
Pacific Views is presented in partnership with the Sydney Environment Institute and PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures.
Full recordings available via the PARADISEC archive.
recorded/collected by Solomon Islands National Museum, 1977
PARADISEC: SINM-77_7
Image: Section pipe of diamond drill on reef platform 1897, Funafuti, Tuvalu, HP90.28.4888
recorded/collected by Bob McLennan, 1972
PARADISEC: BM1-Iatmul5
Image: Limestones of Aitape series. 5. Geological Dept. c.1920, Aitape, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, HP90.28.2389
recorded/collected by Mary Patterson, 1972
PARADISEC: MP1-002
Image: Nauru Lagoon in centre of island c.1930, HP99.1.1955
recorded/collected by Don Laycock, 1980
PARADISEC: DL1-064
Image: Eruption of Baluan [Kalamanagunan] 1937, Rabaul, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, HP.90.28.2470
recorded/collected by Murray Groves, 1973
PARADISEC: MG1-008
Image: [Island] c.1930, unknown location, HP2008.1.367
recorded/collected by Wolfgang Sperlich, 1985
PARADISEC: WS1-006
Image: The hill ?Tumebu as seen from Tangoa – looking onto the mainland of Santo. Typical raised coral hill 1903, Espiritu Santo, Sanma Province, Vanuatu, HP90.28.2437
recorded/collected by Albert Schutz, 1961
PARADISEC: AS2-010
Image: Navua River, Fiji c.1920, Viti Levu, Western-Central Division, Fiji, HP2008.1.251
recorded/collected by Murray Groves, 1973
PARADISEC: MG1-007
Image: ?Kaluiuaa Falls. Ohau c.1920, Kaliuwaʻa, Hau’ula, O’ahu, Hawai’I, HP90.28.2635
Featured image: China Straits from Samarai Island, Papua New Guinea, 1929. Photographer William J Jackson, Macleay Collections, HP2013.1.2