The Pacific is big place – incredibly vast and blue, covering 11 million square miles stretching from the top of Australia to the Hawaiian Islands. While called the South Pacific, these islands are divided into three regions each with its own cultural traditions, language variations, and culinary specialties: Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia.

It excludes the continent of Australia, the Aleutian chain, the Indonesian, Philippine, and Japanese archipelago’s, and the Ryukyu, Bonin, Volcano, and Kuril island arcs that project from Japan.

Tourism infrastructure varies by destination, with some islands linked by daily non-stop flights from Los Angeles and others involving multiple connections. A holiday in South Pacific will lead you to white beaches surrounded by swaying coconut trees, five-star resorts and some of the world’s finest coral reefs.