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Backpackers and billionaires

By David Stanley | Published: 24 January 2006
"It used to be that backpacking trips to Fiji involved a bus ride from Nadi to Suva, then a ferry to somewhere like Ovalau, Savusavu, Taveuni or Kadavu. No more." The Fijian islands are no longer the preserve of luxury cruise holidaymakers...
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Tahiti in fiction and film

By David Stanley | Published: 17 January 2006

Over the years, Tahiti and Polynesia have provided novelists and film-makers with colourful subject matter. Early travellers told of wanton women on tropical shores, and Fletcher Christian added drama to the plot by leading a mutiny against the tyrannical Captain Bligh.

In 1934 American writers Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall brought out the Bounty Trilogy. This three-part novel deals with Christian’s mutiny on the Bounty, the escape of Bligh and his loyal crew members to Dutch Timor, and the colonisation


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Easter Island: a hiking guide

By David Stanley | Published: 9 January 2006
"Ask me which Pacific island has the most to offer hikers and I'll probably answer Easter Island. Here, on an island 11km (seven miles) wide and 23km (14 miles) long, you'll find nearly a thousand ancient Polynesian statues strewn along a powerfully beautiful coastline or littering the slopes of an extinct volcano." David Stanley pulls on his boots and straps on his daypack...
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Samoa, Heart of Polynesia

By David Stanley | Published: 22 December 2005

The islands of Samoa are emerging as an exciting new South Pacific travel destination between Hawaii and New Zealand. This “Heart of Polynesia” is politically split into two distinct entities 80 miles apart. The country Samoa is a former German colony, captured by New Zealand in 1914 and granted independence in 1962. In 1997 the name was changed from Western Samoa to Samoa.

American Samoa is the only US territory south of the equator. Annexed by the United States for use


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