Pacific Ocean outlook - January update
by Noonsite 1 Feb 19:39 PST
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Weather: Tropical cyclone Pita, which formed east of Fiji as a tropical depression in the first week of January, was the first named system for the South Pacific cyclone season.
The storm passed over Niue and Cook Islands before being downgraded to a depression. Heavy rains caused flooding in Fiji and Samoa.
French Polynesia: Marquesan for All: Te 'Eo No Te Paotu, by Emily Donaldson, is a short, accessible and easy to use guide to the Marquesan language that transcends three languages - English, French, and Marquesan. Based on some 20 years of research, it compiles the local words and phrases you need to get around.
Kiribati: Formerly the Gilbert Islands, the Republic of Kiribati is a group of more than 30 islands situated in the centre of the Pacific Ocean around the point where the international dateline and the equator cross. Extremely isolated, its small islands spread out over more than one million square miles of ocean. Tourism remains limited in Kiribati, but nautical tourism provides an opportunity to increase visitors to Kiribati and diversify the economy according to the first independent economic assessment of Kiribati's yachting industry. Read it here.
Tonga: The Government of Tonga has announced that it is granting Starlink a full operational license to provide high speed internet services to the country and the company will be allowed to operate normally with direct sales to the public and through authorised resellers. Yachting is a small, but growing, part of Tonga's nautical tourism market and represents an important opportunity to diversify Tonga's tourism sector, according to the results of the country's first independent economic assessment of this sector. Read here.
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