Continuing his trip around the world with his family on board Jangada, Olivier recounts their bizarre stopover at Mopelia

I wanted to pass north of the Cook Islands... It was years since I had read ‘An Island to Oneself’ written by Tom Neale in 1966 (‘Un Robinson des Mers du Sud’ in French, Ed. Arthaud). I ...

The Cocos Keeling atoll, or rather atolls because there are really two of them, are around 1000 km (540nm) to the west-south-west of Christmas Island. After three days at sea, having left behind the ...

The Indonesian archipelago of Karimunjawa is located 45 miles northwest of Jepara. There are 27 rocky islands here, lost in the Java Sea.