Huguette Clark died in 2011 at the age of 104. Huguette was the sole heir…
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The Boondocks
Nemo, The Pole of Inaccessibility In 1992 a survey engineer, Hrvoje Lukatela, calculated the most…
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Ascension Island
34 sq. miles, 850 people and a cloud forest. Ascension isn’t in the Pacific but…
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The Rainbow Blanket Octopus
The aliens have landed. The Pacific and the other oceans (welcome newly named Southern Ocean)…
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Inakadate, Japan
Like much of rural Japan the village of Inakadate has a declining population. The main…
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The Ultimate Voyage
This is a departure from my usual reporting on things related to the Pacific. But…
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Monterey
250 years ago it was rough service to be sent to that wasteland called California.…
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The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Often overlooked but punching far above its weight is this small museum overlooking the Pacific…
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Antarctica
There are no time zones there, you don’t need a passport and now it’s no…
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Whaling
Though hunting whales dates back at least 6,000 years, it didn’t hit its peak until…
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The Buck’s NFT
This is a departure for our usual time together exploring the Pacific. Buck’s NFT is…
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Gulliver’s Pacific Adventures
There is a door made of paper in the Pacific Ocean that once you step…
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Dawson City: Frozen Time
Is this in the Pacific? Is there a voyage involved? Sort of. Let me explain.…
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Cat Islands of Japan
Yeah, islands ruled by cats. In Japan there are three major and eight minor officially…
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Christmas Island’s red crab migration
This is just a way to write David Attenborough a love letter. If I were…
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The Islands of Califia
California. How did it get the name? The origins of the name date back to…
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Drawbridge, California
Silicon Valley has produced more technological prosperity than anywhere else in the history of humanity. …
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The most important single (only one copy) book in the world
Every so often I am going to depart from the Pacific theme (though I will…
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The Glomar Explorer
In the late 1960s the US military noticed a good deal of Soviet naval activity…
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Get outta here!
Hey Buddy! Get offa my beach, lawn, dock, airstrip, Paris Ritz hotel lobby and all…
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