Niue’s villages are the focus of Internet Niue’s current sponsorship programme. The IUSN Foundation that funds Internet Niue presents a $500 grant to each village council at the village’s annual show day. Foundation chief executive Per Darnell says the wifi service is free to villagers, but transmitters are normally hosted on land or buildings under … Read more …
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Speaking up for the Pacific
20 April 2013Internet Niue and its service provider RockET Systems have been speaking up in international forums on behalf of internet users in Niue and the wider Pacific. RockET director Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui says it’s important that the global internet community is constantly reminded of the internet access issues faced by small Pacific Islands. “Satellite connections such as … Read more …
Linking with our Pacific friends
22 November 2012Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui, director of Internet Niue’s service provider RockET Systems Limited, has been elected to the board of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the world-wide Internet Society (PICISOC). He will also serve as PICISOC secretary for two years. The chapter, which represents the interests of Oceania-Pacific internet users, seeks to provide impartial and relevant advice … Read more …
Fascinating Niue
Limestone 500 metres thick
Niue is one of the world’s largest emerged coral atolls. It has been exposed as a result of dropping sea levels and geological uplifting over the last million years. It is 64 kilometres in circumference and 260 square kilometres in area, rising to no more than 69 metres above sea level.
The soils of the island are based on limestone 50 to 500 metres thick, which overlies basalt-type volcanic rock. The ground surface is often jagged with exposed sharp rock outcrops and boulders, with pockets of topsoil varying in depth between them. In some areas there is a thin coating of volcanic ash, the cause of locally high radioactivity.
Although the island is perched on top of an extinct volcano and wide chasms in the limestone show evidence of past seismic activities, there have been no major earthquakes in recent times. However, small earthquakes are not uncommon.
Sources: National Biodiversity Strategy And Action Plan Of Niue, Government of Niue 2001 and Niue by Charles Cooper. Reed Children’s Books, 2000. ISBN 18694884
