BEIJING : China's coast guard said the Philippines on Friday (Jan 24) sent a civilian vessel to deliver provisions to its warship "illegally grounded" at Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed atoll in ...

Here's our look at the best places to scuba dive in 2025, where you'll have the chance to immerse yourself in a magical underwater world.

Fakarava Atoll, French Polynesia. Author - Philippe Devos ... Russian and French navigators made a significant contribution to the discovery of the islands. For this reason, the Tuamotu archipelago ...

One day in 1946, Navy Commodore Ben Wyatt traveled to an isolated speck of land called Bikini Atoll located in the Marshall Islands between Australia and Hawaii. He had a grim message for its 167 ...

In 2023, I sailed to the Tuamotu Islands. Part of French Polynesia in the South Pacific, these 76 atolls are spread across a vast expanse, 3.1 million square kilometres of blue water. Each small ...

The effects are already visible and sea level rise could see some places no longer habitable within this century, such as the Tuamotu atolls in French Polynesia. Despite their vulnerability ...

This atoll, also known as Kaafu Atoll, is where you'll find the international airport, the capital city, plenty of popular dive sites, several "guesthouse islands" and more than a dozen resorts.