Talk:Ontong Java Atoll

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Since 2005, there has been a ban on fishing beche de mer. A EU funded sea-grass project was initiated in early 2006.

Coordinate error

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The following coordinate fixes are needed for Ontong Java Atoll. 5°16′S, 159°21′W are not the correct coordinates.

—Ano-User (talk) 01:24, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

 Done. Fixed it. Deor (talk) 12:32, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Is Jack London's account fiction?

If Jack London's account is fictional (and that it says no missionary has visited the island is at least one fictional element), then it should *not* be in a section on Anthropology and linguistics. Indeed, given that the article is so short, to include an extended quote from a work of fiction seems to be an undue emphasis. MayerG (talk) 21:31, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Although Jack London's book was fictional, his fiction was always built on solid fact. If you have read Call of the Wild, or White Fang and know anything of the geography and history behind the stories you will know that it is a central part of the credibility of the storytelling that it is set solidly in a verifiable framework of facts to the point that it is hard to tell where fantasy departs from reality. However, he doesn't fabricate the trivia, only the plot. He is also very well-travelled in the area and soaked up new information all the time, maybe just out of curiosity and a sense of adventure, maybe to give another story a sound base. If you read W Somerset Maugham's The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands it's the same thing. If you really want to know what life was like in the islands at that time, albeit from a colonialist's point of view, you'll get a lot further with reading Maugham and London than a lot of history books. What JL says is safely in quotes, what he is quoted as saying in a description of a place or piece of history essential to the story, I'd take as fact. Ex nihil ^(talk)