Caroline Collins looks at such people as mariners, explorers, whalers and shipbuilders between the 16th and 20th centuries ...

Actor Maiava Nathaniel Lees has played characters in some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, including The Matrix and The ...

Feature - Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior, which helped evacuate people of Rongelap Atoll in 1985, shines a spotlight on the ...

With curators from mainland Japan, Taiwan and Okinawa, the festival was anchored by works from those three regions, with the ...

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the South Pacific. Here, a ...

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

There’s a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that most people have never heard of. Once part of the Russian ...

By examining the territory's archaeology, anthropology and linguistics, our new book fits together the missing puzzle pieces ...

The small luxury line is particularly known for sailings to remote places such as Antarctica, the Arctic, and islands in the ...

Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote Pacific island in the first place ...