Possible Clues:

• Where there's a strike in it in a pacific sort of way
• Island to which Gauguin went after leaving Europe
• Pairs leading tackle high tides somewhere in Pacific
• Soldiers' bash on island, one in South Pacific
• Society's most important member?
• There's no miss in this in the Pacific
• Volunteers reach one Pacific island
• Island giving army welcome on securing it
• Romantic Polynesian island, capital Papeete
• How thanks strike one in the society of islands