For all intents and purposes, OPEC is now engaged in a price war with the United States. What that means is that it's very cheap to pump oil out of places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.But it's more expensive to extract oil from shale formations in places like Texas and North Dakota.or all intents and purposes, OPEC is now engaged in a price war with the United States. What that means is that it's very cheap to pump oil out of places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. But it's more expensive to extract oil from shale formations in places like Texas and North Dakota.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. ORIGIN OF PROVINCE NAME: Prince Edward Island was originally called Abegweit (lying down flat, or cradled by the waves) by the Micmac Indians. Europeans called it the Island of Saint John in 1763; in 1799 the island was renamed Prince Edward Island, in honor of Prince Edward of England. NICKNAME: The Garden Province, The Million Acre Farm, or Spud Island.
Fijians originally called their islands â¦ Viti. A Fijian person also refers to themselves as Kaiviti where Kai means from and Viti being the indigenous name of the Fiji Islands. This is also seen with the name of Fiji's largest island Viti Levu roughly translating to Big Viti.While exploring the region, Captain Cook first happened upon the Tongan Islands. As he asked the Tongans what island neighbored theirs, referring to the Fiji Islands, they answered him Viti.n 1774 Captain James Cook sailed between the islands around Fiji and named some islands now the Lau Province Feejee. Capt. James Cook sighted the islands and called it FeeJee â¦ despite that Dutch Explorer Abel Tasman discovered the islands first. The name Feejee was what captain Cook thought the Tongans pronounced.