Iteration |
Year |
Dates |
Location |
Theme |
1st |
1972[10] |
6 May-20 May |
Suva, Fiji  |
"Preserving culture" |
2nd |
1976[11] |
6 March-13 March |
Rotorua, New Zealand  |
"Sharing culture" |
3rd |
1980[12] |
30 June-12 July |
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea  |
"Pacific awareness" |
4th |
1985[13] |
29 June-15 July |
Tahiti, French Polynesia  |
"My Pacific" |
5th |
1988[14] |
14 August-24 August |
Townsville, Australia  |
"Cultural interchange" |
6th |
1992[15] |
16 October-27 October |
Rarotonga, Cook Islands  |
"Seafaring heritage"[16] |
7th |
1996[17] |
8 September-23 September |
Apia, Sāmoa  |
"Unveiling treasures" |
8th |
2000[18] |
23 October-3 November |
Nouméa, New Caledonia  |
"Words of past, present, future"[19] |
9th |
2004[20] |
22 July-31 July |
Koror, Palau  |
"Nurture, Regenerate, Celebrate"[21] |
10th |
2008[22] |
20 July-2 August |
Pago Pago, American Samoa  |
"Threading the Oceania ‘Ula" |
11th |
2012 |
1–14 July |
Honiara, Solomon Islands  |
"Culture in Harmony with Nature"[23] |
12th |
2016 |
TBA |
Tumon, Guam  |
"TBA" |
13th |
2020[24] |
TBA |
TBA, Hawaii  |
"TBA" |