Kosrae - the wettest island in the world.

Kosrae - the wettest island in the world. 108 km2 and a lonely rock in the ocean: apart from the artificial island to the airport and the island of Lelu, Kosrae related to bridges, 500 miles around there is nothing

Kosrae all - a big village discharged without clear boundaries. The whole of the Kosrae, at a glance:

Kosrae one of the most religious places in the Christian world, outstanding against even very conservative Oceania.

Sunday - the most important holiday. You can not work, can not cook, can not even swim (and tourists can not!) Can not sell alcohol from 00:00 to 24:00 (even in bars, even tourists.

Go to church, of course, at best. Best clothes for the whole family usually sewn from a cut colorful fabric, so when everyone gathers in the church, it is easy to determine who is from what the family: this is where the woman in the photo on the right with 2 children - from the same family, and the woman on the left - from another

Entertainment may seem strange to someone. Cockfights - 

Sophisticated hairstyles - 

There is an interesting system of mangrove islands piles separated by river and sea channels.

Then preserved traditional Micronesian kitchen: under separate from the house roof. Micronesian preserved earthen oven where you can bake the largest animal in the palm leaves. Have preserved the tradition of dog.

Earthen oven - 

Yellow Water Billabong

Yellow Water Billabong, Kakadu's most famous wetland, is located at the end of Jim Jim Creek, a tributary of the South Alligator River. The river system, which is the largest in Kakadu, contains extensive wetlands that include river channels, floodplains and backwater swamps.

Australia wildlife

Leaving outside the metropolis, you find yourself in a eucalyptus forest. All familiar with the refreshing aroma of childhood - the smell is very Australian. More than 90% of the vegetation of the continent consists of different kinds of eucalyptus. Age-old forests - places shelter hundreds of species of animals and, of course, the best known and loved all the koalas.

Right on the roadside trees slowly chewing eucalyptus leaves absolutely charming teddy bears. Most of the day koalas sleep, hiding from the scorching sun in the Australian eucalyptus leaves, and only occasionally darting from tree to tree.

Cloudless existence of koalas violate danger due to forest fires and disease. Nearly 70% of the population suffer from chlamydia, which strongly affects the ability to reproduce. More than half of the males - are infertile, the vast number of females as well. Australians care about Koalas in all possible ways. Healthy females are caught and artificially inseminate to restore the population.

Netball

Netball - high-speed game that requires from player the ability to relax and high mobility, and a well developed ability to "read" the game and ability to withstand pressure.

In 1891, James Naismith gave the world a new game - basketball, which quickly gained popularity in the U.S.A.

A few years later, in 1893, swedish Martina Bergman-Österberg described softer 'feminine' rules of basketball, giving the world a game called "netball». Netball soon spread to England, and was then exported to the countries of the British Empire, including Australia and New Zealand.

Basic rules of the game in netball: 

 - The game takes place between two teams of seven people each, who are trying to throw the ball into the goal (basket) the opponent 

 - The game lasts for four 15-minute period with a 3-minute breaks 

- The game is judged two judges 

- All players rush carried out without the ball, dribbling and running with the ball are prohibited 

- You can throw the ball to one or two hands, the game kicked banned 

- The ball is in the hands of the player is not more than 3 seconds.

- Area is divided into three parts, with the gate keeper is the circle 

- Each player is in his area, to leave which he has no right to 

- Each player plays a well defined task, depending on its position on the court.

In 1960 was founded the International Federation of netball (IFNA)

The island of Rangiroa, is one of the places they dream of, but few believe that it can exist.

Rangiroa (meaning Vast Sky in Tuamoutan) or Te Kokōta, is the largest atoll  in the Tuamoutas, and one of the largest in the world.  It is part of the Palliser group. The nearest atoll is Tikehau,  located only 12 km to the West. It is about 355 km Northeast of Tahiti.

This island - the perfect place for divers, but also perfect for cycling and swimming in its crystal clear water. Shimmering rays of the sun illuminate the thousands of colorfulfish such as clown fish, moray eels and sea turtles that inhabit the lagoon. In the evenings you can see dolphins dancing in the waves and whale songs ringing outfrom the depths of the ocean.

The Islands Of Melanesia

Melanesia is a group of islands south-west Pacific, the most closely adjacent to Australia and encompasses its arc from the north-east. These islands are of continental origin, and most of them is, as it were the peaks of mountain ranges, descended into the ocean.

Melanesian island chain begins in the north-west geographic huge island of New Guinea, Irian or the environment. This is the second largest (after Greenland) on the island around the globe. Located east of the Admiralty Islands and Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, or, further to the south-east - Solomon Islands, still further in the same direction - a small group of Santa Cruz, south of it - the New Hebrides with you on-Banks and Torres and, finally, on the southern edge of Melanesia - New Caledonia with the adjoining islands of Lo-yalti and Cooney, or Pine. The eastern archipelagos of Melanesia, Fiji, those islands are considered sometimes as a transition to Polynesia.

The total surface of the islands of Melanesia - up to 980 km2: this is more than three-fourths of the total area of ​​the islands of Oceania together, - the part of Polynesia and Micronesia, there is less than one quarter.

The islands of Melanesia are much closer ~ than the smaller islands in the eastern part of Oceania. The distance between them measured only in tens of kilometers, and even less, a distance of hundreds of kilometers are very rare. In many cases, nearby islands are visible from the shores.

The Solomon Islands. Places to See

Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal Island, and is the largest group in the Solomon Islands. Mountainous and inhospitable island is almost all with slopes and peaks of ancient volcanoes (Mount Gallego, or Mount Gallego, Popomanaso, Makarakomburu, Tatuve, Kaichui - they all have a height of 2 km or more) and covered with dense tropical vegetation cover.

Honiara

The capital of the islands located on the northern coast of Guadalcanal, in the vast gulf between the peninsula of Cape Esperance and Lunga Point, in the same place, which de Mendanya called at the time Puente Cruz.

Savo

Permanently shrouded in clouds volcanic island of Savo, lying in the Strait of Iron Bottom Sound, is a paradise for divers and fans of other outdoor activities.

The almost complete lack of "civilization" is compensated by the abundance of wrecks (there was a famous battle of Savo Island), constantly smoking crater of the volcano and a lot of little boiling springs, some ancient cult sites - megapods, as well as a live bird community and the magnificent crystal clear waters.

Florida

On the Florida Island it is possible to see the old headquarters of the British colonial administration, with its hospital and headquarters, as well as the old Port-Parvis, who served the British Navy at first base, and then - the Japanese Imperial Navy. A small island Anuha widely known for its white sandy beaches.

Field of Malaita

Eastern Province, which bears the name from the largest island group, is the second largest and most densely populated of the Solomon Islands, although many of its inhabitants live in cities do not like Honiara or Gizo, but lost in the jungles and villages on the islands and towns.

The island of Malaita

A distinctive feature of the Malaita Island - a huge number of artificial islands, which were built by locals since ancient times right on the atolls and rocky islets of the lagoons.