During the Great Depression, the value of Cook Islands exports suddenly collapsed—by 1935 it was just one third of the 1925 figure—and the New Zealand government slashed its funding for the territory ...

Vanuatu, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific, has recently drawn international attention after its Prime Minister, ...

Implying that war will happen soon, she called on the government to put military “boots on the ground” in Pacific countries—including Samoa (a former NZ colony), Fiji and Tonga—and to “invest in ...

Implying that war will happen soon, she called on the government to put military “boots on the ground” in Pacific countries—including Samoa (a former NZ colony), Fiji and Tonga—and to ...

I had no clue what I was doing. As an adventurous 30-year-old solo traveller, I was not a cruise fanatic, not even a fan.

Fiji was a British colony from 1874 until it gained independence in 1970. Indo-Fijians trace their ancestry to India, which was also under British rule until 1947. Between 1879 and 1916, more than ...

Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride ...

A genetic analysis reveals that Fiji’s iguanas are most closely related to lizards living in North America’s deserts. How is ...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

It’s actually a siphonophore, which means it’s a colony of millions of identical clones called zooids. Despite being separate individuals, these zooids can’t survive on their own and need to ...

Department of Public Safety and Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations are underway in the Colony Ridge development Monday. As these operations take place, here is where the development ...