WORLD OCEAN journal World Ocean Observatory Volume Two, No. 1, 2015 VOLUME TWO ISLANDS On the Cover: Namenalala Island at the heart of the Namena Marine Reserve, Koro Sea, Kubulau, Fiji. In This Issue The Namena Marine Protected Area (MPA) is located between the two main islands of Fiji: Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. Villagers of 4 Contributors the Kubulau District on Vanua Levu own the traditional fishing rights of the Namena 5 Ocean Log Barrier Reef. After witnessing first-hand the increased threats imposed by commercial by Peter Neill fishing in the 80s and 90s, the chiefs of Palau at the United Nations Kubulau imposed a complete ban on all 7 fishing activity, thereby creating the Namena Keynote Address: President Tommy Remengesau MPA. The area encompassed the entire reef at the United Nations Healthy Oceans Forum surrounding Namenalala Island, a key area of Ocean Solutions marine biodiversity. Scientists have confirmed 10 that the area is home to more than 1,000 The Ocean Has a Recycling Problem: species of invertebrates, 400 known corals, and UNESCO Garbage Patch State by Ghislaine Maxwell 445 documented marine plants. From dive- 16 Ocean Review the-world.com. Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Credit: Stacy Jupiter, Wildlife Conservation Never Set Foot on and Never Will. Reviewed by Lincoln Paine Society, 2008, Marine Photobank. 24 Ocean Views Thinking Like an Island by Peter Neill 28 Ocean Innovations Can Man-Made Floating Islands Save the Ocean? This Page: The SeaSteading Floating City Project by Joe Quirk The Cocos (Keeling) Islands from space. The 34 Ocean Portfolio Cocos Islands are in the eastern Indian Ocean, Fogo Arts: Residency-Based Contemporary Art from Fogo northwest of Australia. Comprised of coral Island, Newfoundland, Canada atolls and islands, the archipelago includes North Keeling Island and Horsburg Island. 40 Ocean Solutions Using the Ocean Without Using it Up. The Blue Halo Credit: Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon for the NASA Earth Observatory. Initiative is Developing a Plan to Manage the Waters Around Barbuda For This and Future Generations. 46 Ocean Commonplace No Man Is An Island. Lewis Pugh, Extreme Swimmer, Environmental Advocate. Volume two, 2015 3 , Contributors Editor’s Log World Ocean Journal NISSOLOGY Blue Halo initiative Peter Neill lewis pugh volume Two, 2015 The Study of Islands by Peter Neill Islands are at the forefront of changing efforts to recycle and reduce EDitor oceans – extreme weather, temperature, the devastating impact of such Peter Neill sea level rise, and more – and they irresponsible and useless discard on The Waitt Institute aims to empower Peter Neill has devoted his career to marine Lewis Pugh, a maritime lawyer, is the provide visceral evidence of climate marine life great and small. What communities to restore their ocean by only person to have completed a long- affairs and education. He has written consequence and wisdom for us to live follows is somewhat less conventional: partnering with island governments numerous articles and books on maritime distance swim in every ocean. Recently he Design & Production to envision, design, and implement history and art. He is Founder and Director undertook a series of swims in Antarctica by. Nissology is a formal area of study Lincoln Paine’s review of The Atlas of comprehensive, sustainable ocean policies of World Ocean Observatory and host of to campaign for the Ross Sea to be set Trisha Badger and action with a nation-state political Remote Islands by Judith Schalanksy, based on science driven by community World Ocean Radio. aside as a Marine Protected Area. alliance: Alliance of Small Island States; reflections on the history of 50 islands priorities. @TheW2O @LewisPugh a sustainable development action the author has “never set foot on and network: Small Island Developing never will,” followed by my short essay FOGO ISLAND ARTS lincoln paine Joe Quirk World Ocean Journal is States (SIDS); the International Small on Thinking Like an Island, which a publication of the World Ocean Islands Studies Association; research offers observations on islands as a state publications: Shima, the Journal of of mind, set apart in space and time. Observatory, a not-for-profit Island Cultures, and Island Studies organization based in coastal Maine. Journal; an academic conference: In Ocean Innovations we look to World Ocean Journal is a digital Islands of the World; a web-based Seasteading, the creation of modern magazine on ocean culture and A residency-based contemporary art venue The author of The Sea and Civilization: A information source: Global Islands floating communities engineered and Joe Quirk is a “Seavangelist” at the solutions to today’s ocean issues. Each located off the coast of Newfoundland , Maritime History of the World, Lincoln Seasteading Institute. He is a science Network; a UNESCO-based regional socially designed to exist in the ocean Canada. Artists-in-residence come to the Paine lives in Portland, Maine. A trustee writer, novelist, and ghostwriter with volume includes essays, interviews, art, program: Small Island Voices; several alongshore as independent and self- island to do research; selected artists are of the Maine Maritime Museum, he can be a bestselling book in each category. He exhibits, and performances profiling institutes: Island Studies, Island sustaining entities that incorporate the invited to present their work in exhibitions found online at LincolnPaine.com. has also written an educational book for the vital impacts of the ocean on our Institute, and Scottish Center for Island advantages and values of successful at the Fogo Island Gallery. @FogoIslandArts @LincolnPaine young adults about marine mammals. lives. This and future editions focus on Studies; and many other academic island living. In Ocean Portfolio we @Seasteading a particular theme. programs and regional affiliations celebrate the work of two visual artists- ayana elizabeth johnson Tommy Esang Remengesau devoted to serious examination of the in-residence at Fogo Island Arts in the terramar project histories and traditions, merits and Newfoundland, Canada, whose work World Ocean Observatory demerits particular to island life. isn representative of the resourcefulness is a major utility for ocean andI creativity of Fogo Islanders, communication as a means to advance Volume Two of the World Ocean which provide a framework for the public awareness and political will, and Journal evokes islands in many forms, organization’s activities. Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine President Tommy Esang Remengesau, biologist and Executive Director of the is dedicated to providing information not always predictable. We begin at the Jr., is the 8th President of the Republic of Similar to the World Ocean Observatory, Waitt Institute. She is dedicated to ensuring United Nations with a Keynote Address This volume offers a second Ocean Palau. He helped lead Palau’s transition to The TerraMar Project is a nonprofit and education about the health of healthy ecosystems and sustainable seafood an independent country in 1994. President ocean organization dedicated to building the ocean. It is our belief that the sea to the September 2014 Healthy Oceans Solution: the Blue Halo Initiative, a for those who rely on the ocean for nutrition, Remengesau and his wife Debbie have four a global community of ocean advocates and Seas Forum by Thomas (Tommy) scaleable project which is empowing livelihoods, and culture. @Ayanaeliza connects all things. children and two grandchildren. empowered to speak up for the ocean. Esang Remengesau, Jr., President of Barbudans to restore their coastal They are using the power of their the Republic of Palau, a nation that waters by developing a sustainable ghislaine maxwell judith schalansky community to advocate for a strong has relentlessly advocated for all island coastal policy which supports ocean-specific Sustainable Development nations through its Ambassador coastal livelihoods while building Goal at the United Nations, ensuring and policy efforts at the UN, and at sustainable, healthy ecosystems. And prominent placement for the oceans in the UN’s post-2015 agenda. major conferences on sustainable finally, through the poetry of John @TerraMarProject Copyright © 2015 by the World Ocean development, climate, and ocean issues Donne, we look to the individual as Observatory. All rights reserved. worldwide. an island, both as entire of itself and Founder and President of The TerraMar Judith Schalansky, born in Greifswald, Reproduction of articles online or as part of the main – Lewis Pugh, Project, Ghislaine has enjoyed a lifelong Germany published her debut novel, Blau love and appreciation for the ocean. She in print is prohibited without first In Ocean Solutions we look at the swimming alone in the cold Antarctic steht dir nicht, in 2008. She is the author of astonishing floating aggregation of waters as a powerful statement, not is a successful businesswoman, holds a obtaining written permission. Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have plastic, the island of waste known of diminishment, but of the essential BA/MA from Oxford University, and is a Never Set Foot On and Never Will which is qualified EMT, helicopter and deep worker reviewed in this volume. around the world as “the Great Pacific implication of the ocean for the submersible pilot. Garbage Patch,” and international survival of all mankind. WORLD OCEAN JOURNAL 4 Volume two, 2015 5 Small island developing states The Story of Palau Keynote Address of President Remengesau at the Healthy Oceans Forum United Nations, September 26, 2014 PRESIDENT REMENGESAU: Earlier this year, in February, Palau and Italy co-hosted the first Healthy Oceans and Seas Forum here at the United Nations. At that historic meeting in the ECOSOC Chamber, I called upon the international community to join the Pacific Small Island Developing States in adopting a Stand Alone Sustainable Development Goal on Healthy and Resilient Oceans. I am much honored to stand before you, six months later, at the second Healthy Oceans Event, again with Italy as co-host, and this time joined by Monaco, for generations a true champion of the oceans.