Line Islands

Pacific · Acteon and Gambier Archipelagos, French Polynesia · Antipodes Island, New Zealand · Australia's Invasive Species Council Partnership · Kaho'olawe Island, Hawai'i · Lehua Island, Hawai'i · Palau · Palmyra Atoll, Line Islands · North America · Anacapa Island, California · Hawadax Island, Alaska ...

Recently, South Korean experts on North Korea were discreetly called to an undisclosed location to share their thoughts on intentions behind Pyongyang's Olympics charm offensive. They were asked whether they sensed actual changes in the Pyongyang regime and why they thought it shifted to a posture ...

Pacific · Acteon and Gambier Archipelagos, French Polynesia · Antipodes Island, New Zealand · Australia's Invasive Species Council Partnership · Kaho'olawe Island, Hawai'i · Lehua Island, Hawai'i · Palau · Palmyra Atoll, Line Islands · North America · Anacapa Island, California · Hawadax Island, Alaska ...

Christmas Island in the northern Line Islands, which is part of the Republic of Kiribati, was named by British Captain James Cook who visited it on Christmas Eve in 1777. This Christmas Island was actually discovered by a Spanish explorer, Hernando de Grijalva, in 1537, but he was not famous like Cook ...

SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- The commandant of South Korea's Marine Corps inspected the defense posture at two of the front-line islands near North Korea on Friday. Lt. Gen. Jun Jin-goo visited Maldo and Udo. Jin checked troops' readiness for wintertime contingency operations and offered words of ...

They were in the second week of their journey, which traced an old Polynesian route along the Line Islands from Tahiti to Hawaii. The 22 ocean samples they'd collect (one every 100 miles or so) would later be shipped to a lab in Maine, where Adventure Scientists partner Andy Barros would conduct a ...

On some of their closest neighbors, the Line Islands one thousand miles to the east, it's already been 2018 for twenty-six hours by the time the terns and boobies on Howland and Baker finally see midnight. I'm not sure what time it is where you're reading this, but it might still be 2017 on Howland and Baker ...

... Geographic Orion back to the South Pacific for the first time in five years. The former Australia-based vessel of Orion Expedition Cruises, Orion will offer five different itineraries in the region including Tahiti to the Marquesas Islands, Easter Island to Tahiti, Cook Islands to Fiji, and the Southern Line Islands.

What that alien would see is one part of perhaps the most pristine archipelago in the Pacific: five remote isles named Caroline (commonly called Millennium), Flint, Vostok, Malden, and Starbuck, together known as the southern Line Islands. The waters around these uninhabited specks of land, located 1,500 to 2,100 miles ...