South Sea Islanders, formerly referred to as Kanakas, are the Australian descendants of Pacific Islanders from more than 80 islands – including the Oceanian archipelagoes of the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Gilbert Islands, and New Ireland – who were kidnapped or recruited between the mid to late 19th century as ...

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Mar 6, 2025 · Access information on Queensland’s Australian South Sea Islander peoples based on data from the 2021 census including population size, location, associated ancestries, health, housing, education and labour force characteristics.

Sep 27, 2022 · South Sea Islanders. A group of 67 South Sea Island labourers were brought to Brisbane in 1863 to work on a cotton plantation, but that industry soon became unviable. As sugar was proving to be a more successful crop, most South Sea Islanders were sent to work in the cane fields instead.

Pacific Islanders are commonly referred to as South Sea Islanders, particularly in Australia. The term was first coined as Mar de Sur, or "South Sea", by Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513 as he it encountered on the southern coast of the Isthmus of Panama and it was applied to the entirety today's Pacific Ocean.

Australian South Sea Islanders became one of the poorest groups in Australia. In the 1960s South Sea Islanders and their descendants banded together to call for recognition of their rights. A leader of the movement was Faith Bandler, whose father had been kidnapped and forced to work in Queensland’s sugarcane fields. In 1994 the federal ...

South Sea Islanders, formerly referred to as Kanakas, are the Australian descendants of Pacific Islanders from more than 80 islands – including the Oceanian archipelagoes of the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Gilbert Islands, and New Ireland – who were kidnapped or recruited between the mid to late 19th century as ...

Today their descendants are a distinct cultural group and are referred to as the Australian South Sea Islander (ASSI) community. Many have a shared South Sea Islander and Indigenous Australian heritage.

In Australia, South Sea Islanders are the descendants of people who were brought to work in the sugarcane and cotton fields of Queensland in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Between 1863 and 1904, more than 60,000 South Sea Islanders were brought to Australia as laborers.

In August 2019, we started the first "Australian South Sea Islander History Month" (#ASSIhistorymonth) sharing posts on our ASSI Stories Facebook page including stories, archival images, articles and historical documents that uncover a dark part of Australian history - …