August 29, 2004
August 23, 2004
Vanuatu - History & Culture
With every season of Survivor, we find ourselves transported half way around the world looking inside another tribal culture. As important as the cast members are to the show's plot. Even more important are the surroundings. An extensive amount of time and effort goes in to selecting each season's ultimate location. Executive Producer, Mark Burnett has a talent for selecting areas that contribute to the overall game. This week, SurvivorWeb presents a series of articles about the islands of Vanuatu.
The first European to discover these islands was the Spanish explorer, Captain Pedro Ferdinand De Quiros, in 1605. He named them "Tierra Australis del Espiritu Santo", believing he had discovered the great southern continent.The island he landed on still bears the name Espiritu Santo.
In 1768, the next European to land here was the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville. He put ashore on the islands of Aoba, Pentecost, and Maewo and named them the "Cyclades" after the Greek Islands and named the strait between the islands after himself.
In 1774, Captain James Cook sailed through the chain from north to south. He chartered many of the islands, gave many of them their present names, and renamed the archipelago the New Hebrides after the islands off Scotland, by which name it was known until Independence in 1980.
Following Cooks voyage the islands were visited by other French explorers and by 1895 both French and English subjects had settled here. In 1902 both nations appointed Resident Commissioners and in October 1906, Britain and France signed an agreement resolving their various claims to the country and making it a Condominium (the only one of its kind in the world) under joint management of both nations. It is estimated that through imported diseases brought to the country by missionaries, sandalwood traders and blackbirding etc. the population dropped from approx. 1,000,000 in 1800 to 45,000 in 1935.
At the end of 1978, the Condominium arrangement ceased, elections were held in November 1979 and the nation became independent on July 30th, 1980. Vanuatu joined the United Nations on September 15th, 1981.
Source: Vanuatu Online
August 19, 2004
Updated Gallery - August 18, 2004
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August 17, 2004
New Survivors compete on ‘Fire' island
Lea “Sarge” Masters, Brook Geraghty, Leann Slaby, Mia Galeotalanza and John Kenney. Middle row: Travis Sampson, Ami Cusack, John Palyok, Dolly Neely, Scout Cloud Lee, Rory Freeman, Chad Crittenden and Julie Berry. Front row: Eliza Orlins, Brady Finta, Chris Daugherty, Twila Tanner and Lisa Keiffer.
The ninth edition of Survivor, premiering Sept. 16 on CBS (8 p.m. ET/PT), will pit nine men vs. nine women in Survivor: Vanuatu, Islands of Fire, set on the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. Here's a first look at the contestants.
August 16, 2004
New Cast Announced - August 17, 2004
CBS will announce the new cast of Survivor: Vanuatu on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 on the Early Show. SurvivorWeb will have screen captures of the show and at the same time will post the official cast photos and short bios. Stay tuned for exciting updates as we come closer to the premiere episode of Survivor: Vanuatu.
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August 14, 2004
New Site Design
I decided that this weekend would be a better time to release the new site design. I'm trying to get all the bugs worked out. The site should load faster and give you better opportunities to view some information you might have missed in the past. I'm doing 90% of it using Style Sheets. The site isn't even close to being XHTML compliant, but pretty close. Let me know what you think.
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