Tagata o te Moana for 19 October 2019

Samoa's Health Ministry says the tragic death of a toddler this week is "highly suspected" to be due to measles, based on clinical assessment and evaluation; arrest warrant issued for former Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O'Neill; Vanuatu and Cook Islands want the UN to make it easier for vulnerable low-lying states to access climate financing; descendants of Tahitian navigator Tupaia want the record set straight on his travels with Captain James Cook on the Endeavour.; the names of six Cook Islands First World War soldiers will be added to the New Zealand and Commonwealth War Graves Commission's official rolls of honour; there's confusion in Solomon Islands over the signing of an agreement between Central Province and a Chinese developer; a small undersea volcano and previously uncharted rocks and reefs feature in the thirty-thousand-gigabytes of undersea data the New Zealand High Commission in Nuku'alofa presented to the Tonga government last week; Niueans across New Zealand are celebrating their culture and language.