Word: fiji
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intends to make two trips, one during the spring vacation, and the other this summer for college boys. This schooner, he said, is the only well outfitted one of its kind left. When asked about his last cruise, he told of meeting the policeman who arrested him in the Fiji islands, during the war, who had since become governor of Barbados...
Governor of the idyllic Fiji Isles from 1912 until 1918 was Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott. "Toward the end of 1914," said he in England last fortnight, "I received a message that Von Spee's squadron was heading toward the Fijis and was only a day's voyage away...
...knew that any wireless message sent from Fiji would be intercepted by the German warships, so I gave instructions for the following words to be wirelessed in English to H. M. S. Australia, flagship of the Australian fleet: THANKS FOR MESSAGE. SHALL EXPECT YOU EARLY TOMORROW...
...liner Tahiti had fallen off, some 500 mi. from the Cook Islands, that the Tahiti was sinking while two U. S. vessels, the Matson liner Ventura and the Shipping Board's Antinous were rushing to the rescue. Reason: first news of the sinking Tahiti came from Suva, a Fiji island just west (from New York) of the International date line (180° east of Greenwich) a spot where the sun rises 14 hr. ahead of New York. At 9:30 o'clock of a midwinter Monday morning Suva announced the sinking Tahiti's 175 passengers were safely...
...seeking total solar eclipses: "Tin Can Island" on Oct. 21. This island, Niuafou, one of the Tonga group, is so called because mail is thrown from passing steamers in tin cans which native swimmers gather up. Since "Tin Can Island" is located in the South Pacific volcano belt near Fiji and Samoa, the astronomers may expect their instruments to be shaken by temblors which jostle the island almost daily...