Samoa Island Pictures

Tailor-made cycling, canoeing and other adventures in Samoa. Budget-compliant rates, from backpacker to fully assisted touring. Close to the Savaii International Airports and the Savaii ferries, we are perfectly situated to begin your vacation. There is a broad variety of daily excursions, from canoeing, horse backriding and snorkeling, to abandoned islets and between groups of tortoises.

Also known as Bike Samoa.

Photograph: Cultural Story - Mary Warner Marien

This is the story we've been awaiting..... taught and entertained... it shows how images have really changed ours. The eight episodes each last up to forty years and examine the subject through the lens of the arts, sciences, social sciences, travelling, war, fashions, popular culture and particulars.

Father George Brown

More than 900 sheet negative prints taken by George Brown during his work for the Methodist Mission in the Pacific between 1875 and 1905. The majority of the photos were taken during George Brown's visit to Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea from 1888 to 1905, with the exclusion of an early series of paintings from the years 1876 to 1880.

These pictures contain profiles, sceneries, missionary lives, tribal activity and scenery and are among the first photographs taken in these areas of the Pacific. In 1855 George Brown (1835-1917) was emigrated to New Zealand, where he became a member of the Methodist Society and got to marry Sarah Lydia Wallis.

1860 he was in Sydney and worked the next 14 years for the Methodist Mission in Samoa. In 1874-5 he was engaged in new missionary work in New Britain and New Ireland. Together with Fiji and Samoa educators, he moved to Duke of York Islands, New Britain, with his wife and daughter.

Over the following years Brown assisted in setting up 29 ministries and church in New Britain and New Ireland. Returning to Sydney in 1881, Brown was named Secretary General of the Australian Wayist mission in 1888, a post he served until 1908. Among his tasks were the search for new missionary sites and the visit of the incumbent groups of Methodists in the Pacific.

As such, he founded a Methodist missions in Dobu, British New Guinea, in 1891 and led the first one to Roviana, Solomon Islands in May 1902. An active participant in academic and devotional discourses throughout his entire career, Brown retired in 1908 and in 1910 released his biography of Melanesians and Polynesians.

Artifacts that George Brown has given to the Australian Museum on several occasion can be found in our cultural collections. Heen Gardner und Jude Philp, "Photography and Christian Mission, George Brown's Images of the New Britain Mission 1875-80" im Journal of Pacific History, Vol.41, No. 2, septembre 2006. Oceania, Otago University Press, 2006.