The regions shown on this page fall into 10 different time zones spanning a range of 18 hours from UTC-5 to UTC+13, so a very nice feature is that there's usually something to see 24 hours per day since it's always daytime in at least a few of these areas. In addition, a number...
When the last of the GoFlo’s leaves the van, Jensen and Summers don the hard hats and life vests (called “work vests” aboard the Revelle) required to work on deck and, along with McQuiggan, make sure each bottle is cocked and ready to fire. Among McQuiggan’s jobs is to snap...
2. Tuvalu is an archipelago of nine islands with three reef islands and six atolls. Funafuti is the largest atoll and this is where the capital is located. Map of Tuvalu 3. Tuvalu is one of the smallest countries in the world and belongs to Polynesia, which is is a region in Oceania....
- Pacific Fire: Fight the whole of WW2 month-by-month on a map spanning from India to the west coast of the US. - Centrifugal Offensive: Command Imperial Japanese forces invading the Philippines, Singapore, and the Dutch East Indies at the beginning of WW2. ...
A map showing the larger ‘Tahiti Nui’ and ‘Tahiti Iti’ printed onto a sarong. Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia and home to almost all the population. Shaped like a figure-8 (to me it looks like a turtle with Tahiti Iti forming the head), it’s divided into Tahiti...
The Equator divides the Pacific Ocean into the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. Below you can see a world map showing the Pacific Ocean: Simply click the + and - signs on the left of the map and zoom into the map to see more about the bordering countries and to locate...
Only weeks later, South Carolina formally seceded from the Union (December 20, 1860); several others soon followed, Confederate forces opened fire on federal troops stationed inside Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, and the Civil War was upon the nation. ...
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Nauru is a small, oval-shaped, raised coral island, located in south-eastern Micronesia, 53 km (33 miles) south of the Equator. Truly remote, Nauru’s closest neighbour (click the links to view my travel guides for the countries listed) is Kiribati whose most westerly island, Banaba (pop...
As Robert Borofsky argues, the "Pacific" can be thought of in part as "a constructed artefact of the discipline" of Pacific Studies itself.21 Although the region can claim a "fundamental physical unity" as a tectonic basin or "ring of fire",22 Gulliver detects the "fuzziness" of the ...