Enthusiastically supported by cruising yachties in 2008 and 2009, the Louisiades Rally 2010 departs from Yorkeys Knob Boating Club (YKBC) Cairns at Half Moon Bay Marina, in mid September. Participating yachts will cruise in company across 520 nautical miles of the Coral Sea, to the Louisiades Archipelago in Papua New Guinea.
The Louisiades are close to [...]

Kilivila, the language spoken by the people of the far-flung Trobriand Islands in eastern Papua New Guinea, is broken up into 12 language families. Some estimates note that as few as 200 people speak the Budibud dialect in the Lachland Islands, making it fairly certain that before visiting the remote islands of the archipelago often [...]