Cook Islands: Drinking club hits the spot
Spending time at a tumunu is a great way to meet Atiu locals, writes Jim Eagles.
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Whalesong in Niue
The singing of whales as they gather in the warm Pacific waters to calve is so powerful you can feel its vibrations in the water if you go swimming with them.
Niue: Floating in whalesong
Jim Eagles has a spiritual experience listening to the mournful melody of a humpback whale.
Fiji: Seeking sanctuary in the original bat cave
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Flat out in Fiji
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Atiu: Coffee revival in the Cook Islands
Jim Eagles explores the island of Atiu's growing coffee industry.
Maskelyne Islands, Vanuatu
This remote cluster of low-lying islands sits off the southern tip of Vanuatu's second-largest island - Malekula. The people of the Maskelyne Islands still get around in wooden dugout outrigger canoes and live much as they have for centuries.
Vanuatu: Island of happy magic
On a remote island in Vanuatu, Tessa Chrisp is won over by the locals' modest way of life and extraordinary warmth and humour.
Hawaii: Celebrating a century since the birth of surf
This northern summer it will be 100 years since the man known to Hawaiians simply as 'The Duke' decided to show the world how to surf.
Cook Islands: Dancing to the beat of a Pacific drum
Jim Eagles cannot resist when a pretty girl invites him on stage.
Around the world, with 248 stops
Graeme Lay discovers the remarkable life of the travellers who want to visit every country in the world.
Birds of the Cook Islands
Concerted conservation efforts have led to the re-establishment of kura - a bird once common in the Southern Cook Islands - on the island of Atiu. The colourful lorikeet was hunted to extinction in the Cooks 200 years ago, but a population survived in the Austral Islands of French Polynesia and in 2007, 27 of those birds were gifted back to the Cook Islands.
Cook Islands: Return of the natives
Jim Eagles heads into the bush with the birdman of Atiu to see some of the Cook Islands' avian success stories.
Fiji: Flights cancelled as stormy weather sticks around
Wild weather continues to batter Fiji's main island of Viti Levu as two people are confirmed dead.
Fiji: Bula to real relaxation
Phil Parker keeps a running total - in Kiwi dollars - of a fun-packed family trip to Fiji.
Top NZ chef: Travesty of stereotyping Pacific cuisine (+recipe)
Robert Oliver has changed perceptions of the cuisines of the islands with the food now being given its due credit.
Hawaii: In the footsteps of the king's runners
Frank Liew savours the pain and the pleasure of competing in the Honolulu Marathon.