NSA and, 157
Patterson in, 280
Queen Elizabeth and, 190, 191, 194–99
sovereignty transfer ceremony, 227–28, 227
Tung Chee Hwa as chief executive of, 201
Typhoon Haiyan and, 238
Vietnamese refugees and, 299
Honolulu, 1–4, 353, 435
Honshu, Japan, 116
Hoover (aircraft), 388
Horne, Donald, 267, 299n
horse latitudes, 365
Hoxha, Enver, 178
Huanchaco, Peru, 126–27
Hudson’s Bay Company, 351–52
Hue, Siege of, 209
Hughes, Davis, 286–88
Hulme, Elizabeth, 31
Humboldt Current, 250
Humphries, Barry, 281
Huntington, Henry, 134–36
hurricanes, 236n, 245–46, 248
Allen, 245
Andrew, 243
Camille, 243, 245
Gilbert, 245
Hugo, 243
Ike, 243
Katrina, 237, 243–45
Rita, 243, 245
Sandy, 243, 245–46
Wilma, 243, 245
hydrogen bomb. See nuclear and atomic weapons; Castle Bravo test
hydrogen sulfide, 325
hydro power, 373
hydrothermal vents, 306, 307, 318–32, 367
IBM (Izu-Bonin-Mariana) Line, 357
Ibuka, Masaru, 86–87, 89–94, 93, 97–100, 103–5, 111–13, 118–19
Ichihara, Japan, 116
Ickes, Harold I., 64–65
Ifalek islet, 11
i’iwi bird, 354
“I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” (song), 210
Impeccable, USNS (surveillance ship), 404–8, 405
Imperial German Pacific Protectorate, 45
imperialism, 190–91, 442. See also colonialism; and specific colonies and colonial powers
Incan culture, 125n, 126
Index Year, 35
India, 21, 205, 337
Australia and, 293, 297
Britain and, 225, 251–52
El Niño and, 262
independence, 31, 225
nuclear testing and, 33
Opium Wars and, 225
Indian Ocean, 18, 316, 331, 343, 430, 439n
Indo-Australian Plate, 313, 314
Indochina, 21, 27, 32, 192, 202–8, 202, 292. See also Vietnam
Indochina War. See also Vietnam War
First, 206–8
Second, 206, 209
Indonesia, 21, 254, 292, 301, 393, 431
Indonesia (Batavia), 431
Influence of Sea Power upon History, The (Mahan), 377, 414
Inhofe, James, 243n
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 263, 368n
International Albatross and Petrel Conference, Fifth, 362
International Date Line, 7–8, 19, 253
International Meridian conference (1884), 7
International Seabed Authority (ISA), 333
Intertropical Convergence Zone, 248, 256–57
Inuit, 21
Iran, 33
Ireland, 132n, 293
ISIL, 301
Island Air, 371
Island Navigation Corporation, 200
Israel, 33
Isthmus of Darién, 18, 23–24
Isthmus of Panama, 18
Italians, 294
Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb, 67n-68n, 69
Iwama, Kazuo, 99–100, 104–5, 112
Izu Islands, 357–58
Jackson, James, 31
Jakarta, 5, 431
Jaluit Island, 10
Japan, 292
albatross hunting and, 357–62, 361, 369
atomic bombing of, 97n, 46, 153
Australia and, 231, 293–95, 297
Castle Bravo and, 76–77
China and, 389n, 393, 397, 422
colonies of, 190, 212, 433
consumer electronics and, 85, 111–18
earthquake of 2011, 315
El Niño and, 258–59
French Indochina and, 205
Hokule‘a and, 439–40
industry and, 11, 87
Korea and, 155
Marshall Islands and, 45
Micronesia and, 10–12
plate tectonics and, 314, 316
postwar, 24–27, 30–31, 87–89
trade and, 26–27
Pueblo and, 159
Rabaul and, 333n
self-defense forces, 119
Senkaku and, 409, 422
state of, in 1950, 30–31, 35
typhoons and, 240, 258–59
U.S. bases in, 115–16, 388, 392, 418, 422
U.S. occupation of, 88, 91–92
WW I and, 9–10, 293–94
WW II and, 10–12, 87, 114, 203, 231
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 259–60
Japanese Airlines, 409
Japanese Association of Microtrains, 86–87
Japanese Diet, 10
Japanese Fleet, 163
Japanese Instrument Measurements Company (JIMCO), 87
Japanese people, 21, 441
Canada and, 84
Hawaii and, 5, 371
U.S. internment of, 25
Japan Meteorological Agency, Typhoon Haiyan and, 238
Japan Railways, 114
Java, 232, 261, 301
Jeffers, Robinson, 1
Jiang Zemin, 396
Joel, Pero, 80
John Brown of Clydebank, shipbuilders 190, 200
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 79–80, 172, 209
Johnson South Reef, 398–400
Johnson South Reef Skirmish (1988), 395n, 400
Johnston Atoll, 20
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 410
Joint Concept for Access and Maneuver in the Global Commons (JAM-Gee-Cee), 410–11, 420
Joint Security Area (JSA, Korea), 172, 176–78, 183, 184
Joint Typhoon Warning Center, 237
Jolicoeur, Henry, 374–75
Jolson, Al, 106
Jones, John Paul, 167
Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, 232
Juan Fernández Islands, 19
juche philosophy, 178–79, 182
Juda, Chief of Bikinians, 51, 60, 64
JUNK Project, 365
Juteau, Thierry, 328
Kadena, 419
Ka’ena Point, Oahu, 357n
Kahanamoku, Duke, 137–39, 138, 147
Kahanamoku, Sam, 139
Kaisei (ship), 365
Kaliningrad, 401n
Kamchatka Peninsula, 3, 314, 362, 389 412
Kashima, Japan, 11
Kauai, 355, 375
Kawasaki, Japan, 114, 116
Keating, Paul, 276
Kekauluohi, Princess of Hawaii, 351–52
Kelly, Ned, 273
Kelvin waves, 262
Kempeitai (Japanese secret police), 91
Kennedy, John F., 154, 209, 214
Kennedy, Robert F. “Bobby,” 25
Kenya, 262, 311
Kerr, Sir John, 271–77
Khe Sanh, Battle of, 209
Khmer people, 202
Kili Island, 66
Kimberley Islands, 232
Kim Il Sung, 31, 176–78, 181, 187
Kim Jong Il, 181
Kim Jong Un, 181
Kinney, Abbott, 134–35
Kipling, Rudyard, 212, 443
Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands), 18–19, 214, 253, 272, 368
Kiritimati Island. See Christmas Island
Kitty Hawk, USS (carrier), 386–88, 387
Knorr (research ship), 317–18
Kodak, 106
Kohner, Kathy, 122, 123, 147
Kon-Tiki (raft), 125–26, 429, 432
Korea, 21, 292, 422, 441. See also North Korea; South Korea
division of, 154–55, 154, 309
DMZ, 161, 176–78, 182–87
Hawaii and, 5
MDL, 172
Soviets and, 153–55
U.S. military and, 119
Vietnam War and, 206
Korean War, 152, 156, 170, 172–73, 208
Kosrae island, 4, 434
Kowloon, 222, 228
Krakatoa volcano, 62, 379n
“Kraken, The” (Tennyson), 305
Kualoa, Hawaii, 429
Kunsan, 419
Kuomintang, 393
Kuril Islands, 116, 316
Kwajalein, 3, 11–17, 49, 54, 65–66, 74–76
Kwajalein, Battle of, 45
kyodatsu (despair), 88
Labor Day hurricane of 1935, 243, 245
labor unions, 196, 199
Labour Party of Australia, 268, 277, 279, 294
Lamotrek atoll, 11
Lana’i island, 369–75
Langinbelik, Rokko, 74
La Niña, 253, 255, 260, 261n
Laos, 202, 207
Larrakia aboriginals, 233
Laurence, William, 55–56
Law of the Sea Convention, 333
“Law on the Territorial Waters” (China, 1992), 389
Lawrence, James, 167
League of Nations, 11
Le Corbusier, 105
Le Duc Tho, 209
Lee Kuan Yew, 396
Lenin, V.I., 24
Letham, Isabel, 139
Leyte Gulf, 239–41, 240
Liaoning (Chinese carrier), 407–9, 415
Libby, Willard, 34
life, origin of, 322–23
Lindeman Island, 348
Line Islands, 367
Littoral combat ships, 421
Liu Huaqing, 411–17, 411
Locklear, Samuel, III, 242–43
Loma Prieta earthquake, 378–79
London, Jack, 121, 129–34, 137, 147
Long Beach, California, 139
Queen Mary and, 193
Long March, 412
Lop Nor atomic tests, 37
Lorikeet, 218n
Los Alamos laboratories, 33, 47, 57–58, 67–69
Los Angeles, 25, 118
surfing and, 134–35, 140
Los Angeles Times, 144
Lucky Country, The (Horne), 267, 299n
Lucky Dragon Five (fishing boat), 76–78
Lulu (research ship), 317, 319–22, 328
Lutherans, 44
Lutyens, Edward, 282
Luzon
China and, 393, 413
earthquake of 1990, 380
Pinatubo eruption and Typhoon Yunya, 383
MacArthur, Douglas, 239
MacArthur villages, Philippines, 240
Macau, 228, 414
Macclesfield Bank, 396
Machu Picchu, 130n
MacLehose, Murray, 221, 222
Madagascar, 430
Madden-Julian Oscillation, 263
Maersk shipping line, 405
Magellan, Ferdinand, 8, 23, 26, 40, 441, 443
magma, 314, 353
Magnavox, 113
magnetic field reversal, 311–12
Magsaysay, Ramón, 380
Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 377, 411, 414
Majuro atoll, 3, 8, 11
malama honua (“care for island earth”), 427, 429, 440, 444
Malaya, colonialism and, 212–13
Malay people, 43, 293
Malaysia, 10, 18, 394, 394, 396
Malibu, California, 141
Manchuria, 155, 414
Manfred (Byron), 231
manganese nodule boom, 332
Manhattan Project, 47, 76n
Manila, 5, 44, 372
Pinatubo eruption and, 380–81, 385n
Manjiro, Nakahama, 358n
Manoa, Hawaii, 5
Manus refugee camp, 300–301
Man Who Loved China, The (Needham), 102n
Maori, 21, 27
Mao Zedong, 31, 37, 269
Marcos, Ferdinand, 25, 379
Marianas Islands, 8, 413
marine protected zones, 367
Marie Byrd Land, 18
marine life
coral reefs and, 343–45
endangered, 366
plastic debris and, 365–66
Marine Park Authority (Australia), 348, 349
Maritime Continent, 18, 254
Marquesas, 5, 431
Marshall, Andrew “Yoda,” 416–19, 416, 422
Marshall, George, 153–55
Marshall, John, 43
Marshall Islands, 3, 8. See also specific Islands
European discovery and, 43–44
German colonial rule, 9, 44–45
Japan and, 10–11, 45
missionaries and, 44, 50
nuclear tests and, 14–17, 19, 48–79
U.S. possession, 12–17, 45–46
WW II and, 45–46
Masterdom, Operation, 203
Mataiva Island, 438
Matsushita firm, 113
Maui, 370, 372–73, 437
McCoy, Mike, 434
Mead, Margaret, 300
Mediterranean, 22, 411
Melanesia, 215, 430, 440
Melbourne, 234, 302
Melville, Herman, 6
Mencken, H.L., 292n
Menzies, Sir Robert, 268n, 279
Meteorological Office, 233
Micronesia, 4, 214, 430, 439
colonial history of, 8–12, 43–44, 214
Compact of Free Association and, 16
Hokule‘a and, 434, 439–40
as U.S. possession, 12
WW I and, 10–11
WW II and, 10–12
Microsoft, 96
Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 308, 310–11
Middle East, 410, 420
Mid-Oceanic Ridge system, 309–17
hydrothermal vents and, 326–28
mapping of, 316–17
smokers and, 328–32
Midway, USS (carrier), 177, 383
Midway Island, 357, 365
Mike thermonuclear test weapon, 42
Milton, John, 212
Minamata disease, 25
Mindanao, 237, 241n
minerals, 270, 348
minimum central pressure (of storm), 244–45
mining, 366–67
deep-sea, 332–34
mining control vessel, 335
Misawa, Japan, 115
Mischief Reef, 395–96
Missouri, USS (ship), Japanese surrender on, 12
Mitsubishi, 99
Moho braccatus, 355
Monde, Le, 43
monsoons, 251–53, 262
Morita, Akio, 85–87, 89, 92, 93n, 94, 98, 100–101, 105–8, 112–13
Morita Company, 92, 93n, 95
Mormons, 371, 442
Moro people, 241n
Mount Daisen, 116
Mount Fuji, 114
Mount Krakatoa, 315
Mount Mayon volcano, 379–80
Mount Newman, 11
Mount Pinatubo, 315, 378–86, 384, 389, 395n, 397, 409, 418, 421, 425
Mount Pinatubo (airplane), 380
Mount Popocatepetl, 315
Mount St. Helens, 315, 378
Mount Taupo, 315
Mount Unzen, 315
Munroe Trail, 371
Murdock, David, 372–74
Mururoa Atoll atomic tests, 37, 218
My Lai Massacre, 25, 209
Nagasaki, 115
atomic bombing, 32, 46, 55, 77, 153, 234
Nagato (battleship), 57
Napoleon, 24, 215
National Defense Authorization Bills (U.S., 2012), 420
National Geographic Society maps, 153–54, 156, 175, 309
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 363, 366
National Press Club, 65
National Security Agency (NSA), 157, 160, 162
Native Americans, 21, 27, 126
Nauru, 272
refugee camp, 300–301
Nautilus Minera
ls, 332–37
Navarre Plan, 206
Nazca Plate, 313, 316
Needham, Joseph, 102n
Needham Question, 102
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 31, 225
Nelson, Lord, 167
Nepalese Gurkhas, 204–5, 226
Netherlands. See Dutch colonies
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, 184
Nevada, USS (battleship), 54, 57
Nevada National Guard, 25
Nevada nuclear tests, 53
New Britain, 333
New Caledonia, 216n
Newfoundland cod fishery, 366
New Guinea, 43, 292, 314, 389n
New Hebrides, 212, 214–15
New Horizon (ship), 365
New Ireland, 333
New Orleans, 237, 244
New South Wales, 284, 287
New South Wales State Conservatorium, 291
New Territories, China and, 222, 228
New Year’s Day, 1950, 30–32, 35–37
New York Times, 54n, 55–56, 108–9, 123, 358
New Zealand, 6, 21, 190, 219, 272, 314, 392n, 431
Nguyen dynasty, 206
NHK (Japanese broadcaster), 98
Niemeyer, Oscar, 105
Niihau Island, 375
Nine-Dash Line, 392–95, 394, 397
Nissan firm, 11
Nixon, Richard, 25, 416, 416
Nobel Prize, 34, 97
Norfolk Island, 220
North America, El Niño and, 264
North American Plate, 314, 316
North Borneo, 212–13
Northern Hemisphere stars, 436
North Island, New Zealand, 314
North Korea, 27, 116, 151–52, 422
Bridge of No Return, 183
calendar of, 181–82
Constitution of 2009, 182
division of, 153–56, 154
DMZ monitors and, 184–85
hostile incidents and, 176–78
juche and police state of, 178–82
mass games, 179, 182
nuclear weapons and, 33, 182
Pueblo and, 151–52, 157–76, 158, 187
Vietnam War and, 211
visit to, 180–81
North Korean Army, 162, 174, 182, 185
North Korean Navy, 159–69
North Korean Workers’ Party, 181
North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), 206, 208–9
Norton, Rosaleen, 290–91
Norway, 190
Novarupta stratovolcano eruptions, 379n
nuclear and atomic weapons, 17–20, 26, 32–43, 46–78
Alvin finds lost, 307–8
atmospheric testing ban, 33
fission vs. fusion, 40–42
Bikini and, 26, 52–81, 61
carbon dating and, 32–37
Castle Bravo test, 37, 66–78, 68
Hiroshima and, 46, 73, 77, 234
hydrogen bomb developed, 26, 33, 37, 66–70, 77
Kiritimati and, 18
Marshall Islands and, 19, 48–81
Mururoa and, 218
Nagasaki and, 32, 46, 55, 77, 153, 234
North Korea and, 182
number of tests, by U.S., 53–54
radioactive contamination and, 20, 33–37
Soviets and, 32–33, 41
Truman and, 41–43, 66–67
Nude with Violin (Coward), 108