Showing posts with label Niue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Niue. Show all posts
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Boat #205, Niue (and Cook Islands)
Niue is an island nation in the South Pacific. It lies 2,400 kilometers northeast of New Zealand in a triangle between Tonga to the southwest, the Samoas to the northwest, and the Cook Islands to the southeast. Niue is commonly referred to as "The Rock" by its roughly 1,400 residents. Trivia question for the day: What was the first nation in the world to go completely WiFi?
Answer: Niue
Friday, June 11, 2010
Boat #307, Cook Islands
The Cook Islands natives cheerfully greet their old buddies, the British. I'm sure this ends well. I wonder what wikipedia has to say about this meeting?...The first recorded landing on Rarotonga (the main island) by Europeans was in 1814 by the Cumberland; trouble broke out between the sailors and the Islanders and many were killed on both sides.
I'll have to check my collection to see if there's a stamp depicting this same scene but five minutes later. I'm guessing not.
Philip
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