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CRUISE SOUTH PACIFIC DESTINATIONS Jungle


Get closer to the lush green landscapes of the South Pacific with an island cruise, says Jane Archer


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ho would not love to cruise the South Pacific?


Lazy days on deck sailing from one idyllic beach-fringed island to another, snorkelling and scuba diving in search of colourful coral and exotic fish. Cruise holidays don’t get much more heavenly. The snag is, whichever way


you look at it, it will require a long flight from the UK. Sydney is about 22 hours from London, while Papeete in Tahiti is around


25 hours from London if flying via Los Angeles – and that excludes the transfer time in LA. One way to avoid flying is to sail across the South Pacific on a world cruise from the UK, which is a pleasant but not very time efficient way to get there. The Pacific is the largest ocean in the world – bigger than all of earth’s land area combined. The South Pacific is one half of that, stretching from the west coast of


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South America to Australia, and bounded north and south by the equator and Antarctica. In short, there are vast distances between the islands.


w PORTS OF CALL French Polynesia – one of France’s overseas territories – is made up of five groups of islands that stretch over an area of 1,608sq miles. The capital, Tahiti, is in the Society Islands


(an archipelago that includes Bora Bora and Moorea) but it also includes the Tuamotu and Marquesas islands. New Caledonia, two days by


sea from Sydney and five days from the Society Islands, is also a French overseas territory. Its capital, Nouméa, and the Isle of Pines are popular stops for swimming, snorkelling, wine- tasting and kayaking. Fiji, a collection of 330


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PICTURE: PAUL GAUGUIN CRUISES/ROGER PAPERNO; MINORU MASUJIMA


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