Miss Pacific Islands

Miss Pacific Islands Pageant
Formation	1987
Type	Beauty Pageant
Headquarters	Apia, Samoa
Official language	English
Owners	Government of Samoa
Website	www.misspacificislands.org

Pageant History

The Miss South Pacific pageant was established in 1987 by the Government of Samoa as a regional event to recognize and promote the attributes intelligence, and talents of Pacific Islands' women, their contributions to regional affairs and their ability to advance in diverse fields. The first Miss South Pacific Pageant, hosted in Western Samoa was held in 1987 & American Samoa representative, Juliette Spencer, was crowned as the first Miss South Pacific and the first Samoan to do so. Tahiti was the first nation to won a Back-To-Back victory in the Pageant's History, winning the first Miss South Pacific title for Tahiti in 1989 by Retire Chevaux & 1990 by Henari Arauva'a. Cook Islands is in record of holding the most Title Reign in the Pageant's History winning 8 titles altogether within 22 years, winning their first Miss South Pacific title by Kimiora Vogel in 1991 and Teuira Napa as their last Miss South Pacific winner in 2013 as of today. Samoa & American Samoa has each representatives from their overseas communities who won the title like Miss Samoa Hawaii, Theresa Purcell in 1988 & Miss Samoa NZ, Julia Toevai in 1992 and they're the only titleholders to won from their country's respective communities from abroad rather than their homeland. Samoa started competing in the Pageant as Western Samoa and changed its name to Samoa in 1997. The pageant started off with a close to 20+ contestants representing their homelands and their homeland communities overseas (such as Samoa Hawaii, Cook Islands NZ, Niue Australia, etc.) until the year 2000, the pageant allowed South Pacific Islanders contestants wishing to represent their homeland communities abroad has to compete in their homeland pageants first & win in order to enter the Miss South Pacific Pageant and the contestants number dropped in the following year in 2001.

The Pageant was held in different island nations in the Pacific as voted by the Pageant's Board Members and Samoa had host the most Miss South Pacific/ Pacific Islands Pageant for more than 10+ years. American Samoa, Cook Islands & Samoa are the only islands who'd competed in the Pageant for the longest time and also the Top 3 island nations who've won Title. Many Islands & Territories who've competed before has been absent from the Pageant in years such as Aotearoa(NZ), Hawaiian Islands, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Marianas, Rapa Nui, Tokelau & Vanuatu. Fiji won their first Miss South Pacific title in 2009 by Merewalesi Nailatikau and she became the first Melanesian woman to captured the title. In 2014, the pageant was renamed Miss Pacific Islands in order to represent the entire Pacific Region instead of just the South Pacific. Teuira Napa of the Cook Islands was the last to reign as Miss South Pacific & Latafale Auva'a of Samoa was the first to reign as Miss Pacific Islands. Latafale Auva’a was the only Miss Pacific Islands who’ve held multiple Pageant title during her reign as Miss Pacific Islands which includes Miss Samoa NZ, Miss Samoa & Miss World Samoa. In 2015, Latafale Auva'a sets out to compete for the 2015 Miss World Pageant before the 2015 Miss Pacific Islands Pageant held at Rarotonga, Cook Islands and the former Miss South Pacific 2013 Teuira Napa was given the honor to crown the 2015 Miss Pacific Islands which was won by Abigail Havora winning the first Miss Pacific Islands title for Papua New Guinea.

In a history making decision made by the Miss Pacific Islands committee and board, it was announced that there will be no the Miss Pacific Islands Pageant for the year of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The current reigning Miss Pacific Islands and Miss Samoa 2019/2020 Fonoifafo McFarland-Seumanu will be the first and only Miss Pacific Islands to hold the crown and title for two consecutive years in the entire history of the pageant.

Title Holders

	Country/Territory	Name	Host Country/Territory	Entrants
2019	Samoa	Fonoifafo Nancy McFarland-Seumanu	Papua New Guinea	12
2018	Papua New Guinea	Leoshina Mercy Kariha	Tonga	6
2017	American Samoa	Matauaina Gwendolyn To’omalatai	Fiji	9
2016	Fiji	Anne Dunne	Samoa	8
2015	Papua New Guinea	Abigail Havora	Cook Islands	8
2014	Samoa	Latafale Auvaa	Samoa	8
2013	American Samoa	Teuira Napa	Solomon Islands	10
2012	Samoa	Janine Nicky Tuivaiti	American Samoa	10
2011	Fiji	Alisi Rabukawaqa	Samoa	9
2010	Cook Islands	Joyanna Mennie Meyer	Papua New Guinea	11
2009	Fiji	Merewalesi Nailatikau	Fiji	10
2008	Niue	Vanessa Marsh	American Samoa	8
2007	Tonga	Tessi Leila Toluta’u	Samoa	8
2006	Cook Islands	Krystina Kauvai	Samoa	7
2005	Cook Islands	Dorothea George	Tonga	7
2004	Niue	Sinahemana Hekau	American Samoa	7
2003	Cook Islands	Janice Nicholas	Samoa	6
2002	American Samoa	Lupe Ane Kenape Aumavae	Cook Islands	7
2001	Samoa	Manamea Apelu	Samoa	6
2000	American Samoa	Helen Afatasi Burke	American Samoa	13
1999	Cook Islands	Liana Scott	Tonga	11
1998	Samoa	Cheri Robinson	Samoa	11
1997	Samoa	Mary-Jane Mckibbin	New Zealand	13
1996	Western Samoa	Verona Ah Ching	Samoa	13
1995	American Samoa	Rochelle Rowena Tuitele	Tonga	17
1995	Tonga	Ma'ata Moungaloa	Tonga	17
1994	Cook Islands	Tarita Brown	Samoa	11
1993	American Samoa	Leilua Stevenson	American Samoa	14
1992	Samoa New Zealand	Julia Toevai	Samoa	unknown
1991	Cook Islands	Kimiora Vogel	Samoa	unknown
1990	Tahiti	Henari Arauva’a	Cook Islands	unknown
1989	Tahiti	Retire Chevaux	Samoa	unknown
1988	Samoa Hawaii	Theresa Purcell	Samoa	unknown
1987	American Samoa	Juliette Caroline Spencer	Samoa	unknown

Country/Territory Winners Ranking

Rank	Country/Territory	Titles	Year
1st	Cook Islands	8	1991, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013
2nd	Samoa	7	1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2012, 2014, 2019
3rd	American Samoa	6	1987, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2017
4th	Fiji	3	2009, 2011, 2016
5th	Papua New Guinea	2	2015, 2018
Niue	2004, 2008
Tonga	1995, 2007
Tahiti	1989, 1990
6th	Samoa New Zealand	1	1992
6th	Samoa Hawaii		1988

Winners Gallery

Miss Pacific Islands 2019
Fonoifafo Nancy McFarland-Seumanu
Miss Samoa
Miss Pacific Islands 2018
Leoshina Mercy Kariha
Miss Papua New Guinea
Miss Pacific Islands 2017
Matauaina Gwendolyn To’omalatai
Miss American Samoa
Miss Pacific Islands 2016
Anne Christine Dunn
Miss Fiji
Miss Pacific Islands 2015
Abigail Havora
Miss Papua New Guinea
Miss Pacific Islands 2014
Latafale Auva'a
Miss Samoa
Miss South Pacific 2013
Teuira Napa
Miss Cook Islands
Miss South Pacific 2012
Janine Nicky Tuivaiti
Miss Samoa
Miss South Pacific 2011
Alisi Rabukawaqa
Miss Fiji
Miss South Pacific 2010
Joyanna Mennie Meyer
Miss Cook Islands
Miss South Pacific 2009
Merewalesi Nailatikau
Miss Fiji
Miss South Pacific 2008
Vanessa Marsh
Miss Niue
Miss South Pacific 2007
Tessi Leila Toluta’u
Miss Tonga
Miss South Pacific 2005 & 2006
Dorothea George & Krystina Kauvai
Miss Cook Islands
Miss South Pacific 2004
Sinahemana Hekau
Miss Niue
Miss South Pacific 2003
Janice Nicholas
Miss Cook Islands
Miss South Pacific 2002
Lupe Ane Kenape Aumavae
Miss American Samoa
Miss South Pacific 2001
Manamea Apelu
Miss Samoa
Miss South Pacific 1999
Liana Scott
Miss Cook Islands
Miss South Pacific 1998
Cheri Robinson
Miss Samoa
Miss South Pacific 1997
Mary-Jane Mckibbin
Miss Samoa
Miss South Pacific 1996
Verona Ah Ching
Miss Samoa
Miss South Pacific 1993
Leilua Stevenson
Miss American Samoa
Miss South Pacific 1992
Julia Toevai
Miss Samoa New Zealand
Miss South Pacific 1987
Juliette Caroline Spencer
Miss American Samoa

Runners-up

Year	1st runner-up (2nd place)	2nd runner-up (3rd place)	3rd runner-up (4th place)	4th runner-up (5th place)	5th runner-up (6th place)
2019	Gladys Habu Solomon Islands	Lucy Maino Papua New Guinea	Herevai Hoata Tahiti	Yehenara Soukop Tonga	Not awarded
2018	Lydia Simonis-Tariu Cook Islands	Sonia Piva Samoa	Emelipelesa Panapa Tuvalu	Not awarded
2017	Alexandra Iakopo Samoa	Hally Qaqa Fiji	Enerstina Bonsu- Maro Cook Islands	Tiare Pakarati Rapa Nui
2016	Antonina Keka Lilomaiava American Samoa	Camilla Grossmith Solomon Islands	Priscilla Olano Samoa	Tepaeru Helen Toka Cook Islands
2015	Ariana Taufao Samoa	Brittne Fuimaono Tonga	Zaira Begg Fiji	Deanne Enoch Solomon Islands
2014	Antonina Browne Cook Islands	Nanise Noel Regarau Rainima Fiji	Annelise Fa’aitumalo Sword American Samoa	Grace Agatha Nugi Papua New Guinea
2013	Rosemarie Louise Fili Tonga	Susana Reti Fanueli Samoa	Tema Wickham Solomon Islands	Eleitino Ma’aelopa Tuiasosopo American Samoa
2012	Kate Ngatokorua Cook Islands	Drew Slatter Fiji	Ruby-Anne Laufa Papua New Guinea	Arrielle La’asaga Tuilefano Maloata American Samoa
2011	Kawena Ka-Malamalama-O-Nalani Souza Hawaiian Islands	Liberty Hinalei Afeaki Tonga	Sarah Kila Karo Papua New Guinea	Uirangi Bishop Cook Islands
2010	Angela Cudd Aotearoa	Jolivette Menime Ete Samoa	Sera Tikotikoivatu Fiji Islands	Pomaikai Klein Hawaii
2009	Engara Melanie Amanda Gosselin Cook Islands	Paretaunu Randall Aotearoa	Millicent Karmeny Barty Solomon Islands	Tusisaleia Hope Pomele Samoa
2008	Gwendolyn Pona Tuaitanu Samoa	Anne-Maire Herman Cook Islands	Filomena Tuivanualevu Fiji	Faasilitamaitai Shanette Pualani Tilo American Samoa
2007	Joyce Lucia Regina Fortes Cook Islands	Sherry Natalie Elekana Samoa	Tania Michelle Wieclaw Australiana/Torres Strait Island	Wilhelmina Elisapeta Saelua American Samoa
2006	Poinsettia Mary Seleisa Taefu Samoa	Charity Apinery Gregory American Samoa	Sina Uilani Nauahi Tonga	Aurélie Rollot New Caledonia
2005	Nancy Maloni Tonga	Falute Sauvao Vaauli Samoa	Edweena Talatini New Caledonia	Faith Toilolo American Samoa
2004	Noovai Karen Tylor Cook Islands	Trixy Theresa Taua American Samoa	Louiena Ruth Leon Guerrero Pangelinan Northern Marianas	Marianne Frédonie New Caledonia
2003	Jessie Moala Philip Tonga	Punipuao Cilla Brown Samoa	Olivia Srue Aloka Tebuteb Northern Marianas	Etelani Atia'e American Samoa	Sita Simaileta Falefaea Tapumanaia Tuvalu
2002	Donna Tuara Cook Islands	Phyllis Ruth Tohi Tonga	Anita Jamieson Samoa	Mahealani Reiko Kamau Hawaii	Not awarded
2001	Jamie Unciano Hawaii	Vitalia Samoata Ann Kline American Samoa	Christie Marie Rosh'n Nau Fepulea'i Tonga	Serlinda Soukon Pohnpei, Micronesia	Rossylyn Arney Pulehetoa Niue Island
2000	Petra May Suhren Samoa	Vaneta April Moegi Samoa Hawaii	Elaine Robin Ward Samoa Aotearoa	Jocelyn Keolalaulani Dalire Hawaii	Not awarded
1999	Anaseini Papaha’amea Va-‘o Fonoti Taumeopeau Walker Tonga	Helai Moana Oala Papua New Guinea	Taralina Ancalin Gae’e Samoa	Joanne Kakoa Terubea Fiji
1998	Ranadi Laurel Johnston Fiji	Simeamativa Peleipu Kruse American Samoa	Tina Marie Vogel Cook Islands	Julia Regan Aotearoa
1997	Letila Mitchell Fiji	Tepoe Dauphin Tahiti	Michelle Malulani Hawaii	Anita Siosi'ana Lavulo Roberts Taumoepeau Tonga
1996	unknown	Sovita Mauga Samoa New Zealand	unknown	unknown
1995	Rochelle Rowena Tuitele American Samoa	Mary-Jane Moe McKibben Samoa Australia	Roxanna Moana Clark Samoa New Zealand	Victoria Keil Cook Islands
1993	Lorna Meleisea Samoa New Zealand	unknown	unknown	unknown
1988	Leimomi Bacalso Hawaii	unknown	unknown	unknown

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