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Tell me morę: ten South Pacific islands

Vanuatu

Number of islands:

4 main islands and 80 smaller ones

Area: 4,706 sq miles (12,189 sq km) Population: 219,000 Vanuatu is a Chain of mountainous, volcanic islands, covered with lush rain forests. There are nine active volcanoes on Vanuatu, including Mount Yasur (left), on the island of Tanna. Vanuatu’s subtropical climate is ideał for growing cocoa, coffee, bananas, and coconuts.

Samoa

Number of islands:

2 main islands and several uninhabited ones Area: 1,093 sq miles (2,831 sq km) Population: 220,000 The International Datę Linę, the imaginary linę that marks where one day ends and the next begins, lies just west of Samoa, which means that it is the last place on Earth to see the Sun set each day. Islands just a short distance to the east are one day ahead of Samoa.

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Fiji

Number of islands:

About 330 islands,

110 inhabited

Area: 7,055 sq miles (18,274 sq km) Population: 945,000 Fiji is the perfect desert island, with tropical rain forests and white sandy beaches, fringed with coral reefs. There, 87 percent of the population live on Fiji’s two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.

Easter Island

Number of islands: 1 Area: 63 sq miles (164 sq km)

Population: 4,780 This isolated island is famous for its 887 giant moai— stone statues that represent ancient ancestors. Nearly all the island’s trees were cut down to make the statues.