Archive for date: August 18th, 2009

Norfolk Island

18 August, 2009 (04:33) | Uncategorized | By: The Chief Technology Officer

A tiny jewel set in the azure seas of the South Pacific, Norfolk Island is just 8 km (5 mi) long, and 1,600 km (994 mi) northeast of Sydney, Australia.
It is the biggest of a cluster of three islands on the Norfolk Ridge, fringed by coral reefs and crowned by pristine rainforest and some of [...]

The Republic of Mauritius

18 August, 2009 (01:22) | Uncategorized | By: The Chief Technology Officer

Part of the Mascarene Islands, the Republic of Mauritius is off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, 900 km (560 mi) east of Madagascar. The republic consists of five islands: St Brandon, Rodrigues, two Agalegas Islands and Mauritius itself.
The latter was originally uninhabited, but the Dutch named the island and established a colony [...]