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• By the 2050s, there will be an increase to approximately 1.3 million children living in 14 Pacific Island Countries including Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. ReliefWeb
• Countries such as Haiti, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Niue, Tokelau, and Trinidad and Tobago exhibit ASMR and ASDR rates significantly higher than expected based on their SDI. BioMed Central
• Immigrants from the Cook Islands, Niue, and Tokelau could meanwhile arrive freely as member countries of the New Zealand Realm. migrationpolicy.org
• For very short trips, for example travel from Rarotonga to Aitutaki (roughly 260 km), or perhaps Samoa to Tokelau (about 550 km), electric aircraft will become an option. The Guardian
• Tokelau plans to use the $829,000 it previously spent annually on importing fossil fuels on health care and education. Berkeleyside
• Without more funding for mitigation efforts, New Zealand's carbon emissions could cause 270 million tons of water from melted polar ice to reach the shores of vulnerable territories such as Tokelau, Niue and the Cook Islands. UCI News
• The US$ 350 million ($570m) SX Next cable runs between Auckland, Sydney and Los Angeles and will also provide the first fibre-optic broadband connections to Tokelau and Kiribati. Stuff
• Consisting of three diverse submarine cable routes, more than 20 access points and over 43,000 km, the Southern Cross ecosystem will support high-capacity and low-latency routes between Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tokelau, Kiribati, Hawaii and the US West Coast. ComputerWeekly.com
• The 2014 effort assumed inter-state conflict to be low-risk and that any threat to New Zealand's sovereign realm, including the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau, was very low until at least 2040. NZ Herald
• SX NEXT will interconnect into Southern Cross' existing data centre locations in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley (Equinix SV1, Equinix SV8 and CoreSite SV1), and will also provide the United States' first direct fibre optic cable link with Tokelau and Kiribati. Voxy
• SX NEXT will form a third route in the Southern Cross network ecosystem connecting the United States with Australia, Fiji, Tokelau, Kiribati and New Zealand. Voxy
• By 2100, the coral atoll nations of the republic of the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Tokelau and the Maldives and many could be submerged. Andrew Simms

Last updated: 18 June 2025