Landfalls of Paradise : Cruising Guide to the Pacific Islands / Earl R. Hinz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinz, Earl R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yachting.

Travel.

Oceania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 370 pages)

Edition:

Third Edition.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1993.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Charts

Preface

1. Your Pacific Ocean

2. Rocks and Shoals

3. Pacific Weather

4. Passage Planning

Part I. Polynesia

Introduction

5. Hawaii

6. French Polynesia / Marquesas Islands / Tuamotu Archipelago / Society Islands / Austral Islands

7. Easter Island

8. Pitcairn Island

9. Cook Islands

10. Samoa / American Samoa / Western Samoa

11. Tokelau Islands

12. Tonga

13. Tuvalu

14. Niue

15. New Zealand

Part II. Melanesia

16. Fiji

17. Wallis and Futuna

18. Papua New Guinea

19. Solomon Islands

20. New Caledonia

21. Vanuatu

Part III. Micronesia

22. Mariana Islands / Guam / Northern Mariana Islands

23. Marshall Islands

24. Federated States of Micronesia / Kosrae / Pohnpei / Chuuk / Yap

25. Palau

26. Kiribati

27. Nauru

Part IV. Islands of the Eastern Pacific

28. Galapagos Islands

Appendixes

Appendix A. Trilingual Dictionary for Port Entry

Appendix B. Glossary of Cruising Words

Appendix C. Mastering the Three R's at Sea

Appendix D. International Maritime Mobile Amateur Radio

Appendix E. Pacific Sailboat Races with Cruising Classes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (de Gruyter, viewed November 28, 2022).

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

0-8248-9082-5

OCLC:

1322125884