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Kia Orana - The Cook Islands and Temporal Anomalies

August 26th 2006
The flight from Fiji to the Cook Islands is again three hours but due to the fact we cross the international dateline we get caught in a temporal anomaly which means we travel back in time. Our flight took off from Nadi at 6:15pm on Saturday 19th August and landed on Raratonga in the Cook Islands at 11:30pm on Friday 18th August, nearly 20 hours before we took off! This means that we get to enjo ... read more

Oceania » Cook Islands » Rarotonga

Named after Captain COOK, who sighted them in 1770, the islands became a British protectorate in 1888. By 1900, administrative control was transferred to New Zealand; in 1965 residents chose self-government in free association with New Zealand. The e... ... read more

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Lindsay Clarke

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We are Lindsay and Russell, both from the UK. After living for (quite a few!) years in London, we decided that we had had enough, and spent 11 months travelling around the world like we always wanted to! Our route took us through South-east Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia & Singapore), Australia and South Pacific (New Zealand, Fiji, Rarotonga) and North America (LA, British Columbia and Alberta, Toronto and Montreal, New York). Unfortunately our trip had to end (why?) and we have now moved to lovely Leeds in West Yorkshire where we have settled for the foreseeable future...... full info

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