http://www.fortheloveofwisdom.com/ en Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:06:06 +1200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sandvox 2.2.4 http://www.fortheloveofwisdom.com/fiji-chronicles/ <div class="article-summary"> <div class="first graphic-container wide center ImageElement"> <div class="graphic"> <div class="figure-content"><!-- sandvox.ImageElement --><img width="200" height="199" src="http://www.fortheloveofwisdom.com/_Media/fiji-islands-map2.gif" alt="" /><!-- /sandvox.ImageElement --></div> </div> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Georgia;"><span style="">Fiji (sometimes called the Fiji Islands), is a Melanesian country in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand and consists of an archipelago that includes 332 islands, a handful of which make up most of the land area, and approximately 110 of which are inhabited.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Georgia;"><span style="">Fiji straddles the 180 degree longitude line (which crosses land on a remote tip of Vanua Levu and again near the centre of Taveuni), so the international date line jogs east, placing Fiji all in one time zone and "ahead" of most of the rest of the world.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Georgia;"><span style="">Source: <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Fiji"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Wikitravel/Fiji</span></a></span></p><br /> </div> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:26:19 +1200 http://www.fortheloveofwisdom.com/fiji-chronicles/ Personal EssaysExperienceWisdomPhilosophy