Category DEPENDENCIES

Niue is one of the least visited, least populated, and geologically least understood places in the South Pacific. It receives fewer visitors annually than a small regional airport, yet it governs a marine area thousands of times larger than its…

The Cook Islands occupy a small share of land but a vast stretch of ocean. Fifteen islands, scattered across roughly two million square kilometers of the South Pacific, form a self-governing Polynesian nation defined as much by water as by…