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Hurricanes or cyclones are not a new thing, since when people started living in these islands maybe about 5,000 years ago this type of event occurs every year, i think also we are now more organized in terms of our disaster management. – Prime Minister Joe Natuman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The phone network being down makes things incredibly difficult, it's meant that it's taken a lot longer to actually find out what's happening in some of the outlying islands, and so the sooner the communications can get back up and running, the better. – Evan Schuurman	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Everyone in Tanna and other islands in the south, they really live subsistence lives, so they grow what they need for a short period. ... And the reality is that much of that would have been washed away by this storm, that's a grave concern because we desperately need to get food to people soon. – Tom Perry	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I go out every day driving around, every day you see things that are inspirational. Getting up in the morning I sit on the terrace, I look out to the sea, to the islands. – Lynne Smith	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The aerial reconnaissance flights confirmed significant damage in the southern islands, particularly Tanna island, where it appears that more than 80 percent of houses and buildings have been partially or completely destroyed. – Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There are over 80 islands that make up Vanuatu and on a good, sunny day outside of cyclone season it's difficult to get to many of them, until today, the weather has been particularly cloudy, so even the surveillance flights would have had some difficulty picking up good imagery. – Colin Collett Van Rooyen	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's certainly deeply concerning because those islands down there were incredibly hard hit. – Tom Perry	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Things come a little more slowly to the islands, we didn’t have technology until long after everywhere else. – Eduardo Phillipe Miranda	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We anticipate that (death toll) will go higher, particularly as information comes from the remote islands. We are talking about islands that are remote and really small, with none of what we would call modern infrastructure. – Colin Collett van Rooyen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's still really quite dangerous outside. Most people are still hunkering down, the damage is quite extensive in Port Vila but there are so many more vulnerable islands. I can't even imagine what it's like in those vulnerable communities. – Chloe Morrison	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The damage is quite extensive in Port Vila but there are so many more vulnerable islands. I can't even imagine what it's like in those vulnerable communities. – Chloe Morrison	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It (the book) ignores the inconvenient truth that some people on the islands can trace their Falklands ancestry back through nine generations, longer than the current borders of Argentina have existed. – Hugo Swire	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Instead of sheltering profits in the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens, the largest corporations in this country must pay their fair share of taxes so that our country has the revenue we need to rebuild America and reduce the deficit. – Senator Bernie Sanders	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Where it used to have a few, small concrete platforms, it now has full islands with helipads, airstrips, harbors, and facilities to support large numbers of troops, we can see that this is a methodical, well-planned campaign to create a chain of air and sea capable fortresses across the center of the Spratly Islands chain. – James Hardy	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This suggests that China has standardized the design of key facilities and is rolling it out across its new islands. – James Hardy	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There are several major Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf region which serve as shipping points for Iran's armed transportation to the region. – Ali Alfoneh	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
China is not overly concerned with what Taiwan is doing on Itu Aba given that it believes it will one day control these islands, beijing can live with this. – Ian Storey	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I was happy to leave Baltimore and go to the islands, and now I'm just happy to be home. – Passenger April Neall	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Society continues to fail in providing basic help for our most vulnerable members even after they were pulled out of slavery on the islands, our society is treating the victims worse than the salt farmers did. – Choi Jung Kyu	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's like a game of hide-and-seek, what we are finding is just the tip of the iceberg. It's hard to comprehend how bad it is for the disabled people who are forced to work out on these isolated islands. – Park Su-in	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return. To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands. To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds. And, subtle shadows of bamboo on bamboo. – Seami Motokiyo	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen. – Luke Rhinehart	added by anonymous 13 years ago
She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization. – Sylvia Levi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. – Herman Melville, Moby Dick	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Hurricanes or cyclones are not a new thing, since when people started living in these islands maybe about 5,000 years ago this type of event occurs every year, i think also we are now more organized in terms of our disaster management.

– Prime Minister Joe Natuman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The phone network being down makes things incredibly difficult, it's meant that it's taken a lot longer to actually find out what's happening in some of the outlying islands, and so the sooner the communications can get back up and running, the better.

– Evan Schuurman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Everyone in Tanna and other islands in the south, they really live subsistence lives, so they grow what they need for a short period. ... And the reality is that much of that would have been washed away by this storm, that's a grave concern because we desperately need to get food to people soon.

– Tom Perry

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I go out every day driving around, every day you see things that are inspirational. Getting up in the morning I sit on the terrace, I look out to the sea, to the islands.

– Lynne Smith

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The aerial reconnaissance flights confirmed significant damage in the southern islands, particularly Tanna island, where it appears that more than 80 percent of houses and buildings have been partially or completely destroyed.

– Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There are over 80 islands that make up Vanuatu and on a good, sunny day outside of cyclone season it's difficult to get to many of them, until today, the weather has been particularly cloudy, so even the surveillance flights would have had some difficulty picking up good imagery.

– Colin Collett Van Rooyen

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's certainly deeply concerning because those islands down there were incredibly hard hit.

– Tom Perry

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Things come a little more slowly to the islands, we didn’t have technology until long after everywhere else.

– Eduardo Phillipe Miranda

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We anticipate that (death toll) will go higher, particularly as information comes from the remote islands. We are talking about islands that are remote and really small, with none of what we would call modern infrastructure.

– Colin Collett van Rooyen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's still really quite dangerous outside. Most people are still hunkering down, the damage is quite extensive in Port Vila but there are so many more vulnerable islands. I can't even imagine what it's like in those vulnerable communities.

– Chloe Morrison

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The damage is quite extensive in Port Vila but there are so many more vulnerable islands. I can't even imagine what it's like in those vulnerable communities.

– Chloe Morrison

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It (the book) ignores the inconvenient truth that some people on the islands can trace their Falklands ancestry back through nine generations, longer than the current borders of Argentina have existed.

– Hugo Swire

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Instead of sheltering profits in the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens, the largest corporations in this country must pay their fair share of taxes so that our country has the revenue we need to rebuild America and reduce the deficit.

– Senator Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Where it used to have a few, small concrete platforms, it now has full islands with helipads, airstrips, harbors, and facilities to support large numbers of troops, we can see that this is a methodical, well-planned campaign to create a chain of air and sea capable fortresses across the center of the Spratly Islands chain.

– James Hardy

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This suggests that China has standardized the design of key facilities and is rolling it out across its new islands.

– James Hardy

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There are several major Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf region which serve as shipping points for Iran's armed transportation to the region.

– Ali Alfoneh

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

China is not overly concerned with what Taiwan is doing on Itu Aba given that it believes it will one day control these islands, beijing can live with this.

– Ian Storey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I was happy to leave Baltimore and go to the islands, and now I'm just happy to be home.

– Passenger April Neall

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Society continues to fail in providing basic help for our most vulnerable members even after they were pulled out of slavery on the islands, our society is treating the victims worse than the salt farmers did.

– Choi Jung Kyu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's like a game of hide-and-seek, what we are finding is just the tip of the iceberg. It's hard to comprehend how bad it is for the disabled people who are forced to work out on these isolated islands.

– Park Su-in

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return. To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands. To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds. And, subtle shadows of bamboo on bamboo.

– Seami Motokiyo

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

– Luke Rhinehart

added by anonymous
13 years ago

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.

– Sylvia Levi

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

– Herman Melville, Moby Dick

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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