Pacific Island Names: a Map and Name Guide to the New Pacific
First published in 1986 by Bishop Museum Press, Pacific Island Names has become an essential reference and the official source for standard rendering of the names of the myriad islands of the oceanic Pacific. This fully revised second edition features new island maps throughout, now in color. The familiar format, with a "Political Guide" listing the islands by group followed by a comprehensive index, remains unchanged. Name changes since the first edition are called out for each group in the "Special Notes" section. The index is particularly noted for its exhaustive inclusion of variant (alternative) names, including those assigned by early European explorers as well as local native spellings not yet considered official.
Lee S. Motteler is a geographer and freelance editor who lives on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. In 1973, he was hired by the late E.H. Bryan Jr. as his assistant in the Pacific Scientific Information Center (PSIC), then an affiliated organization of the Bishop Museum. Motteler's research centered on Pacific and Hawaiian place names, and he compiled extensive files of names based primarily on PSIC's unique map collection, now a part of the museum's archives.
$14.95
isbn 978-0-930897-12-3
softcover, 8.5x11, 104pp.
Available at Bishop Museum's Shop Pacifica (phone 808-848-4158, email at shop@bishopmuseum.org )
and other fine bookstores throughout the islands.
Tags: Bishop Museum Press, maps, Pacific islands
