Pacific Islands Monthly

{{Short description|Magazine from 1930 to 2000}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Pacific Islands Monthly | logo = | logo_size =  | image_file =  | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = R. W. Robson | editor_title =  | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = | frequency = | format = | circulation = | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = Robert William Robson | founded = 1930 | firstdate =  | finaldate = 2000 | finalnumber = | company = | country = Australia | based = | language = English | website =  | issn = 0030-8722 | eissn = 1563-5759 | oclc = }}

'''''Pacific Islands Monthly''''', commonly referred to as "PIM", was a magazine founded in 1930 in Sydney by New Zealand born journalist R.W. Robson.

==Background== ''Pacific Islands Monthly'' was started in Sydney in 1930.<ref name="fri"/> The first issue ran in August 1930.<ref name="fri">{{cite news|title=Pacific Islands Monthly|url=https://fragmentedidentities.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/pacific-islands-monthly/|access-date=22 February 2017|work=Fragmented Identities|date=2 March 2015}}</ref> It consisted of 12 pages and was in the format of a newspaper. The following year it was presented in magazine format.<ref> The Australian National University, Canberra [http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/index.php/pacific-islands-monthly-sydney-pacific-publications-vol-1-no-1-aug-1930;isad Collection DOC 331 - Pacific Islands Monthly Sydney: Pacific Publications. Vol. 1, No. 1+, Aug. 1930+]</ref> Its founder Robert William Robson, who was originally from New Zealand, moved to Sydney, Australia during World War I.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Historical Dictionary of Polynesia |first=Robert D. |last=Craig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hDu1jvjHd8C&pg=PA204 |pages=204–205 |title=Pacific Islands Monthly (PIM) |date=18 December 2010 |isbn=9781461659389}}</ref> The journalists for the magazine were said to be some of the Pacific's most respected.<ref>{{cite book |title=Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas |editor1-first=Stephen A. |editor1-last=Wurm |editor2-first=Peter |editor2-last=Mühlhäusler |editor3-first=Darrell T. |editor3-last=Tryon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lFW1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1404 |page=1404 |isbn=9783110819724 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |date=2011}}</ref>

During the 1940s the magazine included advertisements for W. R. Carpenter & Co.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1 |editor1-first= Brij V. |editor1-last=Lal |editor2-first=Kate |editor2-last=Fortune |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5pPpJl8E5wC&pg=PA218 |page=218 |title=Carpenter Group |first=Kate |last=Fortune|isbn=9780824822651 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |date=2000}}</ref>

The magazine ran for approximately 70 years with the first issue on 16 August 1930 and the last issue on 1 June 2000.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English |editor1-first=Eugene |editor1-last=Benson |editor2-first=L.W. |editor2-last=Conolly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGfMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA905 |page=905 |title=Literary Magazines (South Pacific) |isbn=9781134468485 |publisher=Routledge |date=2004}}</ref>

''Pacific Islands Monthly'' (1931–2000) has been digitised, and is now freely available online through Trove.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pacific Islands Monthly: PIM |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-310385031 |website=Trove |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

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== External links ==

* [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-310385031 Digitised issues] at Trove

Category:Defunct magazines published in Australia Category:Monthly magazines published in Australia Category:Magazines published in Sydney Category:1930 establishments in Australia Category:2000 disestablishments in Australia Category:Defunct magazines published in New Zealand Category:English-language magazines Category:Magazines established in 1930 Category:Magazines disestablished in 2000