1. Bougainville is in a strong position to demand concessions in the talks that will follow the accord.

2. Despite the Bougainville crisis a general optimism prevailed over the long-term prospects for the mineral sector.

3. The government maintained pressure on the rebels by declaring an exclusion zone around Bougainville and blockading all supplies to the island.

4. A few luxuries have been smuggled in by canoe from the Solomons, which Bougainville is geographically and culturally close to.

5. He also stated that the landing was designed to assist with the restoration of services to Bougainville.

6. Relations between the two neighbouring states had been tense in recent years because of the Bougainville conflict.

7. A volcanic island of Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Islands of the southwest Pacific Ocean. It was discovered by Louis de Bougainville in 7'8.

8. As the Ecologist's blogger Dan Box witnessed,(http://) the first five families have moved to Bougainville to prepare the ground for full evacuation.

9. Country Music is the birthplace of the Tennessee Nash Bougainville Island City - the U.

10. Starting as soon as money is available to the Papuan New Guinean regional government, 10 families at a time will be moved by the authorities to Bougainville, a larger island 62 miles away.

11. One of the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean southeast of Bougainville Island. It was under German control from 88' to 899.

12. November 1943: A US soldier wounded in the initial invasion at Empress Augusta Bay is being hoisted aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport off shore of Bougainville island.

13. A volcanic island of Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Islands of the southwest Pacific Ocean. It was discovered by Louis de Bougainville in1768.

14. In World War II he had fought as a company commander at Bougainville and Peleliu (), and later served at Okinawa.

15. Denis Diderot, Excerpts from Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville, in Jacob, The Enlightenment, 160 - 76 .

16. A well camouflaged Marine is giving silent instructions to a Marine Corps jungle-trained dog on the front lines of the beachhead in Bougainville, Soloman Islands, on Jan. 13, 1944 during World War II.

17. Other code talkers went with the Third Marine Division and the Raiders to Bougainville.

18. January 1944: These US Marine Raiders, with the reputation of being skillful jungle fighters, pose in front of a Japanese stronghold they conquered at Cape Totkina, Bougainville.

19. Off Papua New Guinea, about 2, 000 people on the Cantaret Islands are planning to move to nearby Bougainville island, four hours' boat ride to the southwest.

20. Rising sea levels have eroded much of the coastlines of the low-lying Carteret Islands situated 50 miles from Bougainville Island, in the South Pacific.

21. In 1943, American long-ranged P- 38 fighters shot down Yamamoto’s aircraft off Bougainville, killing the Japanese officer best placed to overthrow the militarist regime.

22. Nick Rennie was born on the pacific island of Bougainville in 1974.