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		<title>Fiji Airways Coming Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June 2013 Fiji’s flag carrier, Air Pacific, will officially change its name back to Fiji Airways, the name it used from 1958 to 1970.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/fiji-airways-coming-soon</link>
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		<title>Celestine Hitiura Vaite, Novelist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tahitian novelist Celestine Hitiura Vaite has written a trilogy of the books on Tahitian family life: Breadfruit, Frangipani, and Tiare.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/celestine-hitiura-vaite-novelist</link>
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		<title>Coral Reef Conservation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to the South Pacific can help protect the region’s coral reefs by not breaking coral or buying unmounted seashells.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/coral-reef-conservation</link>
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		<title>Earth Oven Cooking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ancient Polynesians developed an ingenious way of cooking in an underground earth oven known as an umu, ahimaa, or lovo.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/earth-oven-cooking</link>
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		<title>South Pacific Telephone Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many South Pacific countries have telephone cards and these are very handy. By using a telephone card to call long distance you limit the amount the call can possibly cost.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/south-pacific-telephone-services</link>
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		<title>Freetown to Monrovia via Bo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, is a teaming urban jungle with poverty visible everywhere. The Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary is a highlight. From Freetown I traveled to Bo, Gendema, and Monrovia.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/freetown-to-monrovia-via-bo</link>
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		<title>Monrovia to Kenema Overland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monrovia, Liberia, has a number of intriguing buildings dating of the boom years before 1980. After enjoying Monrovia’s sights I traveled overland via Bo Waterside and Gendema to Kenema, Sierra Leone.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/monrovia-to-kenema-overland</link>
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		<title>Liberia and Sierra Leone Travel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In March 2012 I visited both Liberia and Sierra Leone independently, traveling back and forth overland between Monrovia and Freetown. What follows are a few personal observations.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/liberia-and-sierra-leone-travel</link>
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		<title>Voyages of Malolo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kindle edition of a new historical novel by Arizona writer Robert Bonville has been released by Amazon.com. Voyages of Malolo: Secret of the Rongo chronicles the exploits of ancient Polynesian mariners as they seek to unravel the meaning of strange markings on piece of wood which drifts ashore on their western Pacific island.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/voyages-of-malolo</link>
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		<title>Rainforests at Risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The rainforests of the South Pacific have been heavily impacted by industrial logging. Locally operated portable sawmills are an alternative to large-scale exploitation by foreign corporations.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/rainforests-at-risk</link>
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