Every time Solomon Islands guide Ravia takes people to Skull Island, there are fewer offerings of precious shell money piled around the skulls of the head-hunted.

David Arrowsmith decides to pop over to American Samoa - with cultural visions of Somerset Maugham, US naval bases and historic buildings dancing in his head.

The world's remotest museum has opened on Pitcairn Island.

The Solomon Islands was once paradise on Earth, but to some it now feels like a trap.

* Visit Highland Paradise, high on the volcanic slopes, to see where the Tinomana people of the western side lived before the missionaries

In the Cook Islands they have cooperation down to a T for getting tourism back to normal. Jim Eagles pays a visit.