75-night Grand South Pacific Expedition Cruise

This hook shaped island, is located off the Kimberley coast. The island is surrounded by shallow water limestone platforms, which create perfect sand banks for visitors to enjoy the crystal clear beaches. This island is also an important site for seabird breeding, and includes rare birds such as the Australian Pelicans, the Red-footed Booby, and the Mask Booby.

Thursday Island is the best known of the Torres Strait islands. It is a tiny island off the top of Cape York, Queensland's most northern point. At one time Thursday Island was a major pearling centre and pearlers' cemeteries give testimony to their hardships. Some pearls are still produced here, from seeded "culture farms.' It is a popular pause for passing yachts.

Alotau is the capital of Milne Bay province, a province of Papua new Guinea.  Renowned for its friendly people and amazing tropical islands, it is a very well kept secret and sees very few tourists each year. The whole of Milne bay offers some of the worlds best scuba diving and coral reef experiences.

Dobu is a lush green island in Papau New Guineau. This garden island features beautiful mangroves, and swimming coves that will have you never wanting to leave.

Rabaul and it's Harbor is to the New Guinea islands as the Metro is to Paris. Tokua airport is the gateway to the islands region. Rabaul is surrounded by friendly native villages and the local dialect is called Kuanua and its people are called Tolai's.

Kennedy Island (also fondly called plum pudding island) is best known for being the place where former US President John F. Kennedy was shipwrecked during WWII. The island is very small but offers some of the best fishing, snorkeling, diving, and kayaking around. The island is surrounded by clear blue waters, coral reefs, and a variety of tropical fauna.

Santa Ana Island is a small island in the archipelago of the Solomon Islands. It is also known as Owaraha, this destination holds a lot of cultural treasures to discover. The water is crystal clear and the locals are very welcoming and friendly.

Champagne Beach is located on the island of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. This beach was named "Champagne Beach" because of small gas bubbles continuously rise from the volcanic sea floor creating a unique underwater display, which with a combination of crystal clear water and extensive marine life is perfect for snorkeling and diving.

Enjoy the coastal scenery while relaxing on the beautiful beach or take a tour of the local village to witness a typical Fijian way of life. There are excellent dive spots with beautiful hard and soft corals as well as reef sharks. Visitors can also enjoy easy hiking to peaks with breathtaking views and cool waterfalls.

Vanua Balavu is a long and winding island in Fiji's Lau archipelago group. It is considered the most scenic of Lau's islands.

 Fulaga is a beautiful reef-limestone island in Fiji. The island people of Fulaga are traditional carvers, skilled in the making of canoes and wooden bowls. Visitors will find many traditional gifts to take home with them. Fulaga is also especially popular with scuba divers.  Divers will see lovely staghorn coral and leather coral as they drift over it at a rapid pace while on the outside walls they will find lots of orange soft corals surrounded by anthias at depths between 25 and 35m. There are rainbow runners, barracuda and wahoos that are often found coming in from the deeper water. 

Neiafu is the second-largest towns in Tonga as well as one of the friendliest. Several companies in Neiafu offer excellent whale watching tours, as humpback whales emigrate to Vava'u from Antarctica each year arriving at the islands from June to October. The view from the top of Mt. Talau is as a beautiful sight, and a hike to the top from the trail head takes about 5-10 minutes, and the trail head is about a 15-20 minute walk up-hill from town. A 25 minute walk from town visitors will find the exciting fresh-water caves in Toula to explore.

Travel across the International Dateline and step forward or backward in time one day.

This tiny island, only one square mile in size, was settled by Englishman William Marsters in 1863, and its population of 50 are all descendants of him and his three Polynesian wives. Olde English – with a distinct Gloucestershire accent – is still spoken on the island.

An hour and a half flight from Papeete, rectangular-shaped Fakarava is a charming village, home to most of the atoll's 248 inhabitants. The only other - sort of - settlement (10 people ) is on Tetamanu Motu Islet located opposite the lagoon next to the smaller but prettier pass. Fakarava's immense lagoon has several black pearl farms, idyllic white sand beaches and is peppered with small islands, homes to many breeds of nesting birds oblivious to visitors.

Above the steady rumble of the Pacific surge, the sharply sculpted mountains of Hiva Oa hide their summits in the mists of rain-filled clouds. The largest and most fertile island in the southern group of the Marquesas, Hiva Oa has deep valleys, lush plateaus and thickly wooded forests. The town of Atuona is the administrative center for the southern Marquesas. Framed in a theater of mountains with the Bay of Traitors providing safe anchorage, Atuona is a favorite port of call for yachts and copra ships. Atuona has a gendarmerie, small hospital, post office, banks, weather station, Ait Tahiti office, pensions, restaurants and snack bars, stores and chops, telephones and TV. There is a Catholic mission with a boarding school and a Protestant church. A path up the cliffs behind the village leads to Calvary Cemetery - the site of simple graves of two men who chose the Marquesas as their final home and resting place, the French painter Paul Gauguin and Belgian singer Jacques Brel.

Nuku Hiva is the largest island in the Marquesas archipelago. Its beauty from the sea or from high above the islands is truly breathtaking. The 2,100 inhabitants live in Taiohae, Taipivai, Hatiheu, Aakapa, Pua, Houmi, Anaho and Hakaui, where they work for the government, the community, Catholic church or school system, or for themselves - chopping copra high in the mountains, fishing, raising cattle and other livestock, or sculpting bowls and platters or making Marquesan ceremonial clubs, tikiís and ukuleles. Hatiheu is a beautiful village on the northern shore of Nuku Hiva - where it sits in a secluded bay, surrounded by sharply spired peaks. The area around Haiheu is covered with interesting archeological sites.

Mangareva is the largest islands in the Gambier Island group in French Polynesia. Mangareva is famous for its pearl farms and visitors have the opportunity to visit the pearl lagoons. There are an array of significant sites on these islands including more than one hundred stone buildings built in the 19th century, such as churches, convents, weaving workshops and watch towers. Mangareva has beautiful white sandy beaches, and clear blue waters for visitors to enjoy.

Adamstown is a remote island located in the South Pacific; and is not only the capital, but also the only settlement town of the Pitcairn Islands. This tropical paradise is located furthest away from any other inhabited regions or continents. Being made up of clear sandy beaches and rugged terrain landscape, Adamstown offers the perfect relaxation experience.

Adamstown is a remote island located in the South Pacific; and is not only the capital, but also the only settlement town of the Pitcairn Islands. This tropical paradise is located furthest away from any other inhabited regions or continents. Being made up of clear sandy beaches and rugged terrain landscape, Adamstown offers the perfect relaxation experience.

Alexander Selkirk Island is located off the coast of Valparaiso; the islands actually pertain to the Valparaiso Region. The island was founded by Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish pirate known for his refutation of authority. With an average temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, this island is perfect for any pirate or visitor.

Robinson Crusoe Island is one of three islands in the Juan Fernandez archipelago located off the coast of Chile. In 1705, the sailor Alexander Selkirk – more famously known by the island that bears his name, was marooned and spent five years in solitude, thus inspiring Daniel Defoe to write his classic novel. Today, the island is actually a national park and UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve because of the varied flora and fauna on the island. The islands 500 inhabitants are mainly sustained by fishing the local waters. This island is amazingly beautiful and undoubtedly will inspire any visitor to wish they were stranded on this emerald isle.