Michener again: Tales of the South Pacific. Granted it's a war memoir of sorts, but it is also a series of short stories, set mostly in the Solomons, and was the source for the stage show and movie South Pacific.
And, on Gutenberg Australia, the books by E J Banfield, who lived on Dunk Island, off the Queensland coast, for many years. "Confessions of a Beachcomber" etc. Dunk is now a resort Island, but it wasn't back in Banfield's day.
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