Landfalls of Paradise: Cruising Guide to the Pacific IslandsThis text provides information on customs and immigration procedures, together with revised harbour charts and updated descriptions of more than 75 ports of entry and many lesser harbours and anchorages. |
Contents
3 | 18 |
Passage Planning | 32 |
POLYNESIA | 47 |
7 | 102 |
9 | 109 |
Tonga | 143 |
Tuvalu | 154 |
15 | 165 |
MELANESIA | 183 |
Wallis and Futuna | 198 |
Vanuatu 241 | 220 |
New Caledonia | 232 |
MICRONESIA | 251 |
ISLANDS OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC | 337 |
Appendix B | 352 |
Common terms and phrases
airline anchor anchorage Apia Archipelago arrival atolls Auckland average Based on chart Caledonia Chuuk clearance coconut Cook Islands copra coral crew changes cruisers cruising boats Cruising Notes YACHT Customs Day-Public holiday December dinghy Earl Hinz east Easter feet Fiji fish French Polynesia Guam harbor Hawaii Honiara Honolulu Hospital hurricane Immigration inches Japanese Kiribati knots Koror Kosrae lagoon Majuro Mariana Islands Marshall Islands Micronesia months Nauru nautical miles navigation Niue northeast Noumea November ocean P.O. Box Pago Pago Palau Papeete Papua New Guinea percent Pitcairn Pohnpei Polynesian population Port of Entry Post Office Public Holidays rain rainfall Rarotonga reef Saipan season ships Solomon Islands South Pacific southeast trades square miles Suva Tahiti Tokelau Tonga trade winds tropical cyclones Tuamotu Tuvalu typhoon United Vanuatu vessel village visa visitors weather Western Samoa wharf Yacht Club YACHT FACILITIES Zealand