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<title>David Stanley - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[David Stanley's travel guides are widely known around the South Pacific. His opus magnum, Moon Handbooks South Pacific, was first published in 1979 and is now in its 8th edition. The 9th edition of Moon Fiji was published in February, 2011. The 7th edition of Moon Tahiti covers all five archipelagos of French Polynesia. All three guidebooks are published by Avalon Travel Publishing of Berkeley, California.]]></description>
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<title>Tourism in the Pacific</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tourism is the largest industry in many Pacific island countries. Yet mass packaged tourism can be a double-edged sword.]]></description>
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<title>Notes on AIDS and HIV</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1981, scientists in the United States and France first recognized the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which was later discovered to be caused by a virus called the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). HIV breaks down the body's immunity to infections leading to AIDS. The virus can lie hidden in the body for up to 10 years without producing any obvious symptoms or before developing into the AIDS disease, and in the meantime the person can unknowingly infect others.]]></description>
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<title>Mutiny To Tahiti And French Polynesia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since the age of explorers Wallis, Bougainville, and Cook, legendary Tahiti has tickled imaginations worldwide. More recently, Tahiti became the most famous Polynesian island of all when Clark Gable (1935), Marlon Brando (1962), and Mel Gibson (1984) played the role of Fletcher Christian in three blockbuster Mutiny on the Bounty films. Even the horrendous French nuclear testing program from 1966-1996 did little to dampen this image.]]></description>
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<title>Go Nanaimo-British Columbia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Boomtown Nanaimo, British Columbia, is currently one of the hottest housing markets in Canada. Baby boomers all across the country are casting their aging eyes west in their quest for a retirement haven, and the many advantages of Nanaimo, BC, are becoming known.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[We've all heard about whalewatching from boats or shore, and a few companies are now offering the possibility of actually swimming and snorkeling with whales in the wild. Is this a good thing?]]></description>
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<title>Tahiti in Fiction and Film</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Over the years, Tahiti and Polynesia have provided novelists and moviemakers with colorful subject matter. Early travelers told of wanton women on tropical shores, and Fletcher Christian added drama to the plot by leading a mutiny against the tyrannical Captain Bligh.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[It used to be that backpacking trips to Fiji involved a bus ride from Nadi to Suva, then a ferry to somewhere like Ovalau, Savusavu, Taveuni or Kadavu. No more.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The islands of Samoa are emerging as an exciting new South Pacific travel destination between Hawaii and New Zealand. This "Heart of Polynesia" is politically split into two distinct entities 80 miles apart. The country Samoa is a former German colony, captured by New Zealand in 1914 and granted independence in 1962.]]></description>
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<title>Return to Ouvea, New Caledonia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ouvea is everything you'd expect in a South Pacific island. Twenty kilometers of unbroken white sands border the lagoon on the west side of the island and extend far out from shore to give the water a turquoise hue.]]></description>
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<title>A Hiking Guide to Easter Island</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ask me which Pacific island has the most to offer hikers and I'll probably answer Easter Island. Here on an island 11 km wide and 23 km long you'll find nearly a thousand ancient Polynesian statues strewn along a powerfully beautiful coastline or littering the slopes of an extinct volcano.]]></description>
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