Surfing Teahupoʻo, one of the Earth's biggest waves, while on fire – video
US pro surfer Jamie O'Brien rides one of the world's most dangerous and thickest waves with his wetsuit ablaze
January 2015
Weekend magazine travel special 2015
Andrew O’Hagan seeks solitude on Bora Bora
The novelist escapes it all on a dreamy desert island in the South Pacific. But can you have too much of a good thing?
September 2014
Sailing by the stars in the Cook Islands
A trip onboard a Polynesian canoe is no ordinary sailing adventure. With only the stars and moon to navigate by, you sail using the traditional skills of Pacific islanders
September 2011
GrrlScientist
The Statues that Walked – review
Is Easter Island a warning about unrestrained environmental destruction, or is it a monument to human ingenuity?
March 2011
Poverty matters blog
Warming oceans and human waste hit Tuvalu's sustainable way of life
Florent Baarsch and Lan Marie Berg: Fish stocks on Tuvalu's islands, in the Pacific, are disappearing and islanders are turning to the outside world to survive
November 2010
War and peace in the Solomon Islands
As the DVD of HBO's The Pacific is released here, Richard Rogers sees for himself how the Solomon Islands have changed from battleground to eco-tourism haven
June 2007
New wave
Skip the honeymoon villa complexes. Here's a real Tahitian village with some of the wildest surfing in the world on its doorstep.
December 2006
Top 10 dive sites of the world
From the weird micro-creatures at the bottom of the Bismarck Sea to shark feeding frenzies off Cocos Island, Tim Ecott reveals where to experience the thrills of the deep.
December 2005
Pipe dreams
A group of beautiful surfer chicks take on the world's most famous wave. Could this really happen in Hawaii?
August 2004
Call it shallow, but coral cruising floats my boat
Mike Carter gets intimately acquainted with the isles of Bora Bora on board a cruise ship that thinks it's a private yacht.
May 2004
'I'd been around the world several times and it was always Polynesia I wanted to come back to'
The views are uninterrupted and the summers long. On a small Pacific island, wooden treehouses, linked by walkways, have provided a blissful place to retire for one man and his family. By Bibi Gex.
July 2002
When Jane met Jaws
The cruel teeth of sharks frightened his wife Jane. But Andrew Rawnsley watched her terror melt in the islands of Tahiti, Bora Bora and Rangiroa.
