Apr 06
Port of Call: Papeete, Tahiti The Islands of Tahiti constitute of the 118 islands spread over a surface as big as Europe. The best known 3 islands are Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora. These volcanic islands are located in the South Pacific Ocean, in the heart of the Society Islands, also called French Polynesia. From …
Apr 03
Port of Call: Apia, Samoa This capital city of former French Samoa with about 36,000 inhabitants, situated itself in 2011 just across the international dateline, which of course meant we lost a day we never got back.😂 For those of you who don’t know how globally confusing this whole ordeal, introduced in 1884, can be, …
Apr 02
Crossing the International Dateline is getting more attention lately as an imaginary north-south line across the globe that gives us our global time schedules. Not until the 1884 ratification did this become a global agreement between states and nations. The IDL is roughly based on the meridian of 180° longitude, roughly down the middle of the Pacific …
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