South Pacific

The author's quest to visit every continent by kayak has given him a sea-level look at the bond between humans and the ocean

[Maryland/N.C]

Citizens of Vanuatu, the South Pacific island where men jump off bamboo towers with vines tied to their legs as a virility ritual, are considering seeking royalties from bungee-jump operators all over the world.

AN ACT OF WAR AGAINST GREENPEACE

Until now the trouble with Tahiti and Bora-Bora—and Fiji, Samoa, New Caledonia and the rest of the islands that stretch across the Tropic of Capricorn—has been that they were so far away from the American mainland,...