that good,,because,I'm was born on that island,,that why I like ur movie,,but now I miss my fanning island,, beautiful island,,again thank you so much for upload,,,my family leave in fanning island,,,father mother,brothers and sisters,,
I enjoyed my day visit from Holland America's Amsterdam in October 2016. Not very commercial then as compared to this video. Time changes everything. I hope all are happy and healthy today, April 16, 2020! Regards, Sam
Thank you for sharing, it brought back memories of when we did the same cruise in 2005. The people were so gracious, we did a island tour with a native. I walked the entire island that, he even took us to meet his relatives at their hut. It has a wonderful day, that I will never forget.
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing. My dream is to visit one of the remote islands near the equator in the Pacific Ocean and bask in the sunshine one day in early January when the weather in the Midwest is SO dreary!
I gave thumb up for well narrated video and good camera work - steady and slow panning. Many RU-vidrs here handle a camera like a pistol looking for the bad guys. Was this island under German rule before WW I ?. Many people don't know that Germany was one of the European powers that rule the Pacific. After its defeat in WW I, all these islands were handed over to others by League of Nations. Marshal Islands was given to Japan who then had time to prep for WW II. I have been to Kwajalein and Roi Namur and saw very heavy fortifications. Also that act you mentioned is called the Jones Acts. Foreign registered ship going to Hawaii from the west coast must stop at Ensenada or Vancouver for Alaska cruise. Congress exempted the inter Hawaiian cruise; simply not practical. Same rule applies to gambling on the cruise line.
The Island was annexed by Britain in 1888. The other Islands that make up kirabati today, were also former British Colonial Territories. Although Canton and Enderbury Islands in the Phoenix group of Islands were under joint UK/US rule from 1939 to 1979. Anyway, given that in WW1. The Germans and British were at war. It explains the Germans shelling the Island! There were also German Colonies in North east Papua New Guinea. And Nauru Island up untill the beginning of WW1. Both were occupied by Australian troops in 1914. And what was once known as Western Samoa, as opposed to American Samoa. And is now known, as just Samoa. Was also a German Colony untill the beginning of WW1. When It was occupied by New Zealand troops. All of these events were in the context of WW1.
sorry sir?? please sir you have some more movies for fanning island?? I'm was born in fanning island,, but now I'm in new Zealand now,,but I'm miss my fanning island,, and my family leave in fanning island until today!!! im so happy to watch ur upload movies
I don't have any more video, sorry. Wish I could go back there 'cause it is a beautiful place. Seem that life there is harder since NCL stopped going there. Best wishes for you. I would like to visit New Zealnd too!
Thank you for the nice video and commentary. You did a fantastic job. I took that cruise with NCL in 2002 for my parent's 50th anniversary. My video camera went out before we arrived and so I don't have any video but some pictures. I remember how intense the sun was and how much NCL had done for the islanders there. I don't believe they go there anymore which is too bad. I'd love to return. Thank you for the video.
In all these videos, I hate all the, "how much NCL had done for the islanders." The briefs NCL would give passengers before disembarking was a whitewashed history of lies. I lived on that island from 1995 to 1999, years before and during the first arrival of ships. NCL did very little to help the island and caused many more problems. They paid the local village pennies to lie and rename the "NCL School" and say they built it in the first village you reach from the dock. It was built in 1996 several years before the first ship ever arrived, I literally have pictures of helping with the construction as a teenager and my father helping with the electricity and generators with the dates coded onto the photos. NCL agreed to pay the local government $2 for every 1 person who stepped onto the island. Then reneged and switched it to $1 per head and then paid it to the capital of Kiribati, Tawara, instead. The money never reached the local islanders.The first few years on the island before infrastructure was put in place, (when the first ships arrived the dock hadn't even been built they would run the boats up on the sand to disembark people). The tourists would leave mountains of plastics and trash across the island which the locals had no means of disposal except burning. Families were displaced and local storehouses were destroyed so NCL could setup their facilities which they only used for a few years before abandoning. Tabuaran island may not be "modern" by today's standards but quality of life and happiness was high. The people were no more 'saved' (as some call it) by NCL than they were by the missionaries who arrived years before I had who changed the locals from their "heathen and unmoral ways." It amazes me how we as a culture keep finding these tucked away paradises which we find wonderful and splendid but then try to change them into reflections of our own culture and say we helped them. Not to pick on just your comment, but last one I read before finally replying while watching these videos.
