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Articles	Alfa Romeo (yacht) ♦ Festival of Pacific Arts ♦ USFA Custer Battlefield Gun ♦ USFA Custom Shop ♦ USFA Gunslinger ♦ USFA Henry Nettleton Cavalry ♦ USFA Rodeo ♦ USFA Rodeo II ♦ USFA US Pre-War
Categories	Pacific Islands Forum ♦ U.S. Fire Arms Mfg. Co.
Did you know?	17:42, 15 August 2008 (UTC) ... that the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts, concluded 2 August 2008 in American Samoa, brought together about 2,000 artists from 27 countries across Oceania? 11:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC) ... that on July 9, 2009, the racing yacht Alfa Romeo II broke the Transpac record for miles sailed in one day, by sailing 431 nautical miles in 24 hours? 00:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC) ... that Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug (pictured) enabled the first Hawaiʻi–Tahiti non-instrument sailing canoe voyage in more than 500 years by mentoring Nainoa Thompson?
Templates	Culture of Oceania (What links to it?) (views) ♦ User BRUIN ALUM (uses Parser Functions to create one userbox for current UCLA students, another userbox for grads) ♦ Archive template, for my talk archives index ♦ My talk page header (note: bot templates have to be on talk page itself, not transcluded from a header. ♦ Phi Eta Sigma (national honor society for college freshmen) ♦ My talk page archive header ♦ My archive list ♦ This navbox

Major additions (to Articles)
Hōkūleʻa (thoughtfully reworked by Viriditas for the WikiProject Hawaiʻi November 2008 feature; the article was also the subject of the Oceania Portal featured article, January 2009) ♦ Mau Piailug ♦ U.S. Fire Arms Manufacturing Company

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Articles	Arcturus ♦ Arnold Morgado ♦ Christian Sharps ♦ Colt Armory ♦ Colt Single Action Army ♦ Colt's Manufacturing Company ♦ Culture of Tonga ♦ Daniel Akaka ♦ David Henry Lewis ♦ Eddie Aikau ♦ Ekaterina Gordeeva ♦ FN model 1910 ♦ Hawaiian Renaissance ♦ Kahuna ♦ Kawika Kapahulehua ♦ Maka'ala Yates ♦ Mataiva ♦ Mau Piailug ♦ Maxim gun ♦ Melanesian Spearhead Group ♦ Nainoa Thompson ♦ Native Hawaiians ♦ Newport Beach, California ♦ Ōshima District, Yamaguchi ♦ Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement ♦ Pacific Islands Forum ♦ Pacific Union ♦ Polynesia ♦ Punahou School alumni ♦ Revolver ♦ Samoan language ♦ Samuel Colt ♦ Secretariat of the Pacific Community ♦ Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum ♦ Sharps rifle ♦ Ship replica ♦ Suppressor ♦ Tahitian language
Categories	Category:Sailboat names ♦ Category:Sailboat types
Images modified	Members of Pacific Island Forum – shaded Wallis and Futuna as observer members; Fiji as suspended
Templates	Template:Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) (added collapse state; updated observer and suspended members) ♦ Template:Sail Types ♦ Template:User bruin ♦ Template:User ucla

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Alfa Romeo II (yacht) ♦ File:Mau Piailug.gif ♦ File:Mau-star-compass.png ♦ USFA Custer Battlefield Gun ♦ USFA Custom Shop Cattlebrands of Jackson Hole detail (for The Legend Lives series) ♦ USFA Custom Shop Charlton Heston commission (for the NRA) ♦ USFA Custom Shop Cheney gun ♦ USFA Custom Shop's Commemmorative commission (for the US Marines Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169) ♦ USFA Custom Shop engraving detail ♦ USFA Custom Shop's 25th Anniversary commission (for the Las Vegas Police Deparment) ♦ USFA Gunslinger ♦ USFA Henry Nettleton ♦ USFA US Pre-War ♦ USFA Rodeo ♦ USFA Rodeo II ♦ U.S. Fire Arms Mfg. Co. logo ♦ Members of Pacific Islands Forum ♦ USS Iowa (BB-61): superstructure, badge, citadel ♦ Parbuckle

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