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DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Carter. Augustine Kohler. Ashley Meredith. Peter Aten. Ranger Walter. Michael Brennan. James Delgado. Annika Andresen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Spread across the Blue Pacific are more than 3,800 shipwrecks resulting from WWII and the nuclear testing programs across the region. Containing significant quantities of petrochemicals and ordnance, over the past 75+ years, these potentially polluting wrecks (PPWs) have deteriorated, with...