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A Drifting Coconut: The story of the Carteret Islanders

  • Island Children
  • Locals prepare to fish
  • Local girl collects sea slugs
  • Locals selling sea slugs.
  • A local young woman
  • The stump of a coconut tree
  • Coconut palms fall into the sea
  • High tide
  • The sea slips in to the island.
  • The gardens flood at high tide.
  • Food relief arrives on the islands
  • Collecting rice
  • Houses are still made in traditional styles