The flag of the Pacific Islands Forum is the banner of the regional intergovernmental organisation that links the independent and self-governing states of the Pacific. Founded in 1971 as the South Pacific Forum and renamed in 2000, the body brings together Australia, New Zealand, and sixteen Pacific island nations and territories.
A gold anchor on a white field surrounded by 13 gold stars, with the word HOPE on a blue ribbon below.
A simplified version of the US coat of arms — a yellow eagle holding an olive branch and three arrows — flanked by the letters V and I, on a white field.
A grey latte stone in front of a Carolinian mwarmwar wreath on a blue field, with a single white star above.
The Moai are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between 1250 and 1500 CE. There are nearly 1,000 statues across the island, weighing up to 75 tonnes each.
The Northern Mariana Islands is a Pacific US territory of 14 volcanic islands, with Saipan as the largest, near Guam. It became a US Commonwealth in 1978.
Rhode Island is the smallest US state by area, but has more than 600 km of coastline, the wealthy Newport Gilded-Age mansions, and was the first colony to declare independence from Britain in May 1776.
The U.S. Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation for nine unincorporated US insular areas — eight Pacific atolls (Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Johnston, Kingman Reef, Midway, Palmyra, Wake) and one Caribbean island (Navassa). Most are uninhabited national wildlife refuges; Wake and Johnston have transient military personnel.
Baker Island is an uninhabited equatorial atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Claimed by the United States in 1856 under the Guano Islands Act for its phosphate deposits, it is now a National Wildlife Refuge with abundant seabird colonies and pristine coral reefs.