Which one of our 20,000 islands will you call paradise? |
Follow in the footsteps of the great explorers as you set sail on a voyage of discovery to the South Seas . . . The South Seas or the South Pacific as it is also known is home to around 20,000 islands, the first of which were "discovered" by the likes of James Cook and then visited by the likes of Captain Bligh and HMS Bounty. Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, was another famous visitor to the South Seas and after a life of travel he lived on the island of Samoa in the South Pacific until his death in 1894. Today, the islands of the South Seas are divided into three zones - Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia - and a warm tropical welcome awaits you. Polynesia is the name given to the tropical islands that fall within a triangle of the South Pacific with Hawaii, Easter Island and New Zealand at its three points. Here you will find the likes of Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Tuvaluand the Wallis and Futuna islands. Micronesia also falls partly within this triangle and is found to the north of Polynesia. It is home to the Caroline Islands, Guam and the Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands and the hundreds of small islands that make up the Federation Of Micronesia itself. In the South West corner of the Pacific lie the islands of Melanesia including Fiji, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. |
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