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Palau restricted reef-toxic sunscreen ingredients in 2020 to protect its coral, one of the first nations to do so.
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Palau · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Palau ↗
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The animal market starts at six and finishes by nine. Everything else is for tourists and the sellers say so themselves, cheerfully.
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Otavalo, Ecuador · The Americas
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Atithi Devo Bhava: the guest is equivalent to God.With over 800 living languages, Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country on Earth.
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Papua New Guinea · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Demographics of Papua New Guinea ↗
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Navigators read ocean swells using stick charts, memorising wave patterns rather than carrying the charts to sea.
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Marshall Islands · Oceania & the Pacific
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We stopped on a mountain road at two in the morning. The driver, the conductor and six passengers changed the wheel by phone torch in eleven minutes.
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Ecuador · The Americas
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Wayfinders crossed thousands of kilometres of open Pacific reading stars, swell direction, cloud shapes and bird flight.
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Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Polynesia ↗
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East, west, home is best.Somebody was playing dominoes on the pavement, somebody was fixing a car, somebody was singing. All three had been doing it since before we arrived and continued after.
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Havana, Cuba · The Americas
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The central peaks are the remains of a volcano slowly subsiding inside its own coral ring.
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Bora Bora, French Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Bora Bora ↗
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Volcanic basalt ground down by waves gives many Tahitian beaches their dark colour.
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Tahiti, French Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Tahiti ↗
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He had made a part for a 1955 Chevrolet out of a Russian tractor component. He showed it to us the way other people show photographs of their children.
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Havana, Cuba · The Americas
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A naturally heart-shaped clearing in the mangroves of Voh became famous through aerial photography.
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New Caledonia · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): List of birds of New Caledonia ↗
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He who does not travel does not know the value of men.The Pacific covers about a third of the planet's surface and contains roughly half of its free water.
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Pacific Ocean · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Pacific Ocean Park ↗
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The volume was not negotiable. A grandmother two rows up conducted with one hand and the driver adjusted the bass on her instruction.
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Jamaica · The Americas
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Challenger Deep reaches about 10,900 metres, more than two kilometres deeper than Everest is high.
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Mariana Trench · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Mariana Trench ↗
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Do not follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail.The nearest humans to Point Nemo are often astronauts on the space station passing overhead.
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Point Nemo, Pacific · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Gina Nemo ↗
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Every house had them and nobody used them that week. The shop owner said you fit them in May and forget them, and that forgetting is the whole point.
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Caribbean · The Americas
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Reefs occupy less than one percent of the ocean floor but support around a quarter of all marine species.
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Oceans · Around the World
External reference (site language): Oceans Seven ↗
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From the boat it is a dark circle in turquoise. From the water it is a wall going down into nothing and your brain refuses to process the scale.
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Belize · The Americas
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We have better high-resolution maps of Mars than of our own seabed, though mapping projects are closing the gap.
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Oceans · Around the World
External reference (site language): Oceans Seven ↗
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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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