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Orpheus Island

Orpheus Island is nestled amongst one of the world's natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef - a natural beauty of 1300 hectares of National Park surrounded by breathtaking reefs. Orpheus Island boasts a warm tropical climate and averages [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Lizard Island

Lizard Island is the perfect spot from which to explore this coral wonderland for tourist and scientist alike. Rising from the blue waters of the Great Barrier Reef to the north of Cooktown. For nearly three decades, the waters around Lizar [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Heard Island and McDonald Islands

Heard Island and McDonald Islands is a Sub-antarctic Island group located in the Southern Ocean, about 4,000 kilometres south west of mainland Australia. The islands and surrounding waters teem with wildlife and other natural wonders that [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Dunk Island

One of Australia's most spectacular rainforest islands, it is a holiday destination where every member of the family is catered for and there are three children's programs designed for various ages. Dunk Island Resort is an unspoilt tropic [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Christmas Island

If you love nature, you will love Christmas Island! 63% of it is national park containing species of flora & fauna found nowhere else in the world! Probably the most noticeable local is the Red Crab with over 100 million of these vivid [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Tetiaroa 'Island of Birds'

Located 42 km north of Tahiti 15 mn by plane, Tetiaroa is the unique atoll low island of the Society Islands. Its crystal-clear lagoon is circled by 13 white sand islets. Totally close to the ocean, its reef barrier does not offer a pass to [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

Tonga

The situation in Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa is currently calm, but recent pro-democracy protests (November 2006) turned violent with looting and property damage taking place. A state of emergency was declared restricting movement in central [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

papua new guinea

Papua New Guinea is a raw land, remarkably untamed and as variegated as swamp and jagged limestone; mud and moss forest; suffocating heat and Highland chill; plumed, pearl-shelled villagers and prosaic hill people; tiny tree kangaroos and e [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2007 | Comments : 1

Reunion Island

Nearby Mauritius or the not-so-far-away British Seychelles, little Reunion seems but a speck in the vast ocean, dwarfed by Madagascar, located 500 miles to the west. With an active volcano on its south coast, 17 miles of warm, welcoming be [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

Sumba

The Island of Sumba is 400 kilometers east of Bali, the world famous tourist destination island, and directly south of Komodo and Flores islands. Sumba is a little visited and undeveloped outpost in Indonesia's southeast islands chain that [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

Tromelin Island

The island was first recorded by a French navigator in 1722. Tromelin is a low, scrub-covered sandbank about 1,700 metres long and 700 metres wide, surrounded by coral reefs. It is a nesting site for seabirds and turtles.It takes its name f [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2007 | Comments : 0

Madagascar

Madagascar is the world's fourth biggest island after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. Because of its isolation most of its mammals, half its birds, and most of its plants exist nowhere else on earth. The island is heavily exposed to tro [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2007 | Comments : 0

Comoro Islands

Sheer beauty of the island is the first thing that strikes the visitor. From its stretches of black, sandy beaches to its nearly mile-high central peak--often shrouded in mist--the island is truly a tropical jewel set in a sparkling sea. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2007 | Comments : 0

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands were shrouded in mystery for centuries because of their inaccessibility. The Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands Stretches over a length of more than 700kms from North to south floating in the cl [...]