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Solo Rower In French Polynesia Headed To Australia

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
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Pacific Magazine: Solo Rower In French Polynesia Headed To Australia
Alex Bellini, who is rowing across the Pacific Ocean from Lima, Peru, to Sydney, Australia, is in French Polynesia waters, the French Maritime Search and Rescue (MRCC) operation reported Tuesday.

Bellini, who set out on Feb. 21 planning to reach Sydney sometime in December, was 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the Tuamotu atoll of Manihi on Tuesday, moving at an average speed of four kilometers (2.5 miles) per hour, the MRCC said in a communiqué.

The rower spent 136 days at sea not having seen any sign of human life for four months until he recently encountered the Tahitian fishing boat Lady Chris, the MRCC reported.

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The future of the local languages of the Marquesas in French Polynesia?

Monday, May 26th, 2008
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french_polynesia The future of the local languages of the Marquesas in French Polynesia?

Pacific Magazine: Feature : Farewell To Granny’s Tongue
The future of the local languages of the Marquesas in French Polynesia is being freshly debated by local leaders and educationalists.

In te Henua ‘Enana, the Marquesas island group, indigenous languages still account for the first-used languages among the roughly 9,000 residents.

During recent election campaigns, speeches were exclusively delivered in Marquesan. Te Pû Tuhuka ‘Eo ‘Enana, the Academy of Marquesan languages has published fresh monolingual immersion language books with CDs along with a new bilingual dictionary.

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