The kingdom of Tonga, know as The Friends Island, is disytinctly different to its neighbouring island nations. It is the oldest and last remaining Polynesian monarchy and the only Pasific nation never ruled by a foreign power.
If there is one thing that tells you about life in the Cook Island it is the clocks that can be found in many public places. The numbers on the faces of these clocks are scrambled and make no sense at all. In the centre of the clocks are the Words : " Who cares?"
Under New Zealand's protection and control for 44 years, Western Samoa is the land where nature stopped a war before it began, where the land slopes gently from sparkling beaaches to hilly volcanis summits, and where the people, once cannibals, welcome strrangers with fgreat hospitality.
The Solomon Island - the land of headhunters, where cannibals ate human flesh and made human sacrifices to the spirits. This was a land where black magic was common- and, occansionally, can still be found today.
The land where the people are the second largest in the world; Where the national dress for men is a skirr - but the fact that the people are descendents of reformed cannibals is an excellent reason not to laught at them; where there id friction beetwen the two msin races of the nation; and where one finds coral reefs, tropical lagoons, and wide sandy beaches that make the islands a favourite a…
An oval-shaped coral island lying near the equator, the Republic of Nauru is the smallest republik in the world. The whole of Nauru is just 21.2 square kilometres size. Nauru lies in the western Pasific Ocean, 42km south of the equator . This gives Nauru a hot and humid tropical climate, but unlike other South Pasific paradises, Nauru's landscape is aridd and desolate.
Fakalofa Atu! Greetings! Welcome to Niue, the world's smallest self- governing state. Niue i sthe largest uplifted coral island in the world and, because of this, has a spectacular and remarkable landscape.
Tuvalu is made up of nine small islands scattered over 500,000 square miles of the western Pasific, just south of the equator. The total land area of the densely populated group is only 26 sq km, however The Island occupy 1.3 million sq km of ocean.