John Frum

John Frum

male
African American, cargo cults, copra, cargo cult, United States-Oceania relations, Foreign relations of Vanuatu…newhebrides, New religious movements
John Frum (or Jon Frum) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. He is depicted as an American World War II...
John Gibson Paton

John Gibson Paton

male, deceased (1907)
Protestant, Scottish, missionary, newhebrides, Scottish-Australian, Dumfriesshire
Rev. Dr. John Gibson Paton (May 24, 1824 - January 16, 1907) was a Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides.
Tom Harrisson

Tom Harrisson

male, deceased (1976)
Allied Intelligence Bureau, Services Reconnaissance Department, harrow school, borneo, newhebrides, Film-Maker
Tom Harrisson (1911-1976) was a British polymath (although often described as an anthropologist his degree studies at Cambridge were in ecology...
Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson

male, deceased (1958)
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, newhebrides, Geologist, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Explorer of Antarctica, Knights Bachelor…The geology of the New Hebrides, Rooty Hill, New South Wales, Mittagong, New South Wales
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS (May 5 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian Antarctic explorer and geologist. With Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Sc...
George Brown

George Brown

male, deceased (1917)
Christian, newhebrides, cannibal, native, Diarist, massacre
George Brown (7 December 1835 - 7 April 1917), English missionary. He was the son of George Brown, barrister. Brown as a young man belonged to the...

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

male, deceased (1614)
El Capitan Pedro Fernández de Quir, espiritu santo, spanish conquistador, Spanish conquistadore, spanish, explorer…newhebrides
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, also known in Spanish as Pedro Fernández de Quirós, and who used the title of El Capitan Pedro Fernández de Quir when...
Albert Wendt

Albert Wendt

male, 70 years old
University of Hawaii, New Zealand Book Awards, Suva, Apia, Vanuatu, Order of New Zealand…New Zealand Order of Merit, newhebrides, Member of the Order of New Zealand
Albert Wendt, CNZM (born 1939) is a Samoan poet and writer. Among his works is "Leaves of the Banyan Tree" (1979). Albert Wendt was born in Apia,...
Harry Pidgeon

Harry Pidgeon

male, deceased (1954)
World War II, circumnavigation, Sailor, Sierra Nevada, Single-handed sailor, photography…newhebrides
Harry Pidgeon (1869 - 1954), American sailor, was the second solo person to circumnavigate the world, after Joshua Slocum, and the first person to...

John Layard

male, deceased (1974)
Psychologist, Anthropologist, psychotherapy, From London, English, newhebrides
John Willoughby Layard (27 November 1891-26 November 1974) was an English anthropologist and psychologist.
John Robarts

John Robarts

male
Baha'i Faith, Baha'i, John Aldham Robarts, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, Hands of the Cause, Hands of the Cause of God…papua new guinea, newhebrides, New Caledonia
John Aldham Robarts was a prominent Canadian Bahá'í. He was born on 2 November 1901 in Waterloo, Ontario, to Aldham Wilson Robarts and Rachel Ma...