Tulun: A Case Study
400 hundred years ago a flotilla of canoes crossed the 80 km (49.7 miles) of open sea between Bougainville and the Tulun Islands in the Solomon Sea. The tribe’s isolated existence on the islands ever since has helped preserve customs and beliefs now lost where they originated from. Within a few generations the islands are expected to be submerged by the rising sea forcing the 1000 islanders to search for new land.
A selection of 80 pictures and a personal account from my two visits to the Tulun Islands will be published under the title A South Pacific Exodus late 2011. Stay updated via www.bjornstighansen.com.
A selection of 80 pictures and a personal account from my two visits to the Tulun Islands will be published under the title A South Pacific Exodus late 2011. Stay updated via www.bjornstighansen.com.
Tear sheets from the 2. publication of the story
