After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

Efforts to encourage activities like village tours and handicraft workshops appears to be helping tourism rebound from ...

A major earthquake has rattled Tonga, an archipelago nation in the South Pacific Ocean that comprises some 170 islands. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the 7.0 magnitude quake struck roughly ...

However, the four iguana species found on the Pacific islands of Fiji and Tonga ... a body of water–is the primary way that newly formed islands are populated with plants, animals, and even ...

At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific islands.