The central highlands of the island of New Guinea was the last place on earth…
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Drake’s Bay—Part 2, The Voyage of the San Augustin
In 1565, Phillip II of Spain claimed the Philippine Islands (hence the name) to take…
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Drake’s Bay – Shipwrecks and lies.
In 1579, Sir Francis Drake was circumnavigating the globe for good Queen Bess when he…
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The State of Yap
Yap is a state of the Federated States of Micronesia that’s part of the Carolina…
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The Last Voyage of the Wateree
The USS Wateree was a sidewheel steamship built in Philadelphia in 1863 to patrol the…
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The Island of Borneo’s crown jewel—Brunei
Ask most folks where the oil-rich Muslim nation of Brunei is and they place it…
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Treasure Island
Smack dab in the middle of San Francisco Bay is an island of relatively recent…
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Bikini Atoll
If you look up ‘most dangerous islands’ in the world, you always find Bikini Atoll…
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The Island of Sumbawa
I used to think that the explosion of Krakatoa in 1883 was THE BIG ONE,…
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Ferdinand Magellan
This magazine is called Pacific Voyages and features both Pacific Islands as well as Pacific…
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Chuuk or Truk Island
Chuuk Lagoon—formerly Truk Atoll is home to about 36,000 Micronesians who live on this quiet…
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Alcatraz
Not all the Pacific islands are 6,000 miles from home (if you live in San…
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Howland Island
Amelia Earhart’s life and career have been celebrated for the past several decades on “Amelia…
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Lord of the Flies Island
There are countless books and movies based on real events, but how about a real…
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TETIAROA or BRANDO’S ISLAND
You can’t exactly buy a Tahitian Island if you aren’t Tahitian, but in Marlon Brando’s…
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Fiji: The Cannibal Islands, a place you may very well go
If you were to visit one place in the Pacific, I would say Fiji. Here,…
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Isla Nublar
Isla Nublar is at once real and entirely fictitious. Imagine an island off the west…
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Pitcairn Island
For over 50 years I have longed to visit Pitcairn Island. Not anymore. The story…
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Lubang Island
Lubang Island was the home of the last the Samurai warrior of the Japanese Imperial…
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Terminal Island
Terminal Island is a largely artificial island in the middle of Los Angles harbor. The…
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