GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Island Life, Natural Selection, Paul Gauguin
8 Jul 2016
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Islands: five geographical histories: gardens and paradise (map) (map) Warm, surrounded by water, tropical, exotic, isolated, etc. (images) Maui has a diverse set of ecologies. The winds blow from the northeast with huge amounts of rainfall all the time. Other side is a desert, due to the lack of rain. Creating the lush green paradise for the tourists. (image) History of plantation crops, slavery and labour. Turned most of the caribbean into sugar plantations. (book) How sugar entered into the british diet a long time ago. American"s started to plant sugar and pineapple in hawaii. Brought workers from japan and east asia: plantations and slavery (image) For native hawaiians this island is important culturally so they stopped and are cleaning all of the explosive things. Spongebob (conspiracy) theory: testing weapons of war. 95 % species there do not exist anywhere else in the world. Why would almost known extinctions happen in one place: nature of the islands, pretty isolated.
