Selection of photos frm over 20 years of leading expeditions in Melanesia

1. MOMENTS IN MELANESIA
A photo collection from & about Suzanne Noakes

2. The May 1962 National Geographic magazine
sparked Suzanne’s life long interest in
Melanesian countries within the vast Oceania region.
(Vol. 121, No. 5)

4. For over 20 years, Suzanne has
traveled extensively throughout
Melanesia as a tour guide and
promoter of travel products into
the South Pacific.
Those travels have given her
access to some magnificent people
and places she has captured in
thousands of photos.
This presentation shares some
of those images.

5. http://www.asiatranspacific.com/ATJ/about/field-staff.aspx
www.asiatranspacific.com/ATJ/about/field-staff.aspx

6. www.zeco.com/travel-reports/reports.asp?id=138

7. West Papua, Papua New Guinea, Torres Strait,
Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji
MELANESIA

8. Example of one Melanesian expedition itinerary

9. Melanesian Cultural Festival, Suva, Fiji, 2006

10. “I know of no part of the world, the exploration
of which is so flattering to the imagination,
so likely to be fruitful in interesting results,
whether to the naturalist, the ethnologist,
or the geographer, and altogether so well
calculated to gratify the enlightened curiosity
of an adventurous explorer, as the interior
of New Guinea….
the wonders it probably conceals.”
JOSEPH BEETES JUKES
HMS Fly 1842-46

19. SING SING and SONG BIRDS
Papua New Guinea
SING SING, SONG BIRDS & SEX

38. Ambua Lodge, Highlands, Papua New Guinea

53. Raggiana Bird of Paradise
SPOT ANY SIMILIARITIES
Male needs attention Male leaps to her side
Shake plumes Dance more frenzied
Throws out wings Hoping up and down
Shows off Lunges strikes female
Hangs upside down Lasts 2 to 3 seconds
Tosses plumes around Female flies off
Thrusts brightest part Male onto next conquest
Female pecks him

54. West Papua
(Irian Jaya, Indonesia)

56. Solomon Islands

57. Vanuatu

58. Fiji

60. And, for another day, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Indonesia & other journeys

61. Angkor Wat, World Heritage, Cambodia
Fiji
Kalimantan, Borneo Indonesia.

62. Extra PNG shots
suzanne@pacificasiatourism.org