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A view from the shore road .Across the lagoon is a small island with breeding birds

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A bunch of coconuts growing high up in a palm tree

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A corner of the old shore road by the main lagoon

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This is typical of the dense undergrowth covering parts of the island . A great cover for land crabs

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Palm tree growing from nut

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a young girl in the island village

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this was the swimming lagoon

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The village where the islanders live was normally out of bounds to sevicemen

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The frigate birds nest on the small islands around the main lagoon

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land rover crossing a ford at low tide .The shore road was only passable at low tide

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The puffer fish has an air sack which it inflates when alarmed . They then float on the surface .

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This land crab made a run for it when it saw me coming . However unfortunately there was already a crab down this hole and it was just not big enough for two

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These crabs were about the size of a human fist

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This crab was very upset as I had just eased him out of the lagoon with a stick.

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Youg boy in island villdge

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This is a red tailed tropicbird which had been blinded. We took it to the hospital and freed its eyes with ointment. It worked and it flew away after biting the sergeant.

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In the 1950s & 60s Britain conducted nuclear tests at Christmas Island in the Pacific

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Tracks left by a land crab during the night

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These anti flash suits were worn at the time nuclear bombs were exploded

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A thatched Fijian bure on the coral island known as Beachcomer Island, also known as Tai Island

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The uninhabited coral island known as Treasure Island, seen from nearby Beachcomber Island

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Close up of Coconuts ripening on a Palm tree.

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Sunset over the Fijian coral island of Malolo Lai Lai

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View of Beachcomber Island in Fiji from a glass bottom boat in 1971

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A thatched Fijian bure on the coral island known as Beachcomer Island, also known as Tai Island

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The coral island of Malolo Lai Lai in Fiji.

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A necessary hut built round a coconut palm tree on Beachcomber Island, also known as Tai Island in Fiji

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The two-storey Beachcomber Lodge on the coral island known as Beachcomber Island or Tai Island in Fiji

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The uninhabited coral island known as Treasure Island, seen from nearby Beachcomber Island

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Coconut Palm Trees

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A moored yacht in the lagoon of the coral island of Malolo Lai Lai in Fiji.

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A Fijian-style bure on Beachcomber Island, Fiji

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Aerial view of Malolo Lai Lai island, Fiji showing the landing strip

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An aerial view of the coral island of Malolo Lai Lai in Fiji

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A thatched Fijian bure on the coral island known as Beachcomer Island,

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Christmas Island was home to the British nuclear bomb tests in the 50s Many Gilbertese Islanders were employed on the installations ,

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A thatched Fijian 'bure' on Beachcomber Island in Fiji

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The outdoor dining area for tourists on the coral island known as Beachcomber Island in Fiji

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Beachcomber Island, a small coral island not far from Lautoka in Fiji

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Tourist and aluminium dinghy with outboard motor on the island of Malolo Lai Lai in Fiji

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Tourist wearing a Fijian sulu on Treasure Island in Fiji

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Bathing off the beach of Beachcomber Island in Fiji

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A lady holidaymaker on Treasure Island, Fiji.

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A tourist in an aluminium dighy with outboard motor on the lagoon at Malolol Lai Lai, Fiji

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A Inter-Island plane on the runway of the coral island of Malolo Lai Lai in Fiji

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A Fijian welcome group for the launch arriving at Beachcomer Island, also known as Tai Island in Fiji.

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The Beachcomber Lodge on Tai Island, Fiji

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The reception bure on Beachcomber Island, Fiji, later destroyed by fire.

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On the coral island known as Beachcomber Island in Fiji

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On Treasure Island off Lautoka, Fiji

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In the late 1950s Christmas Island in the Pacific was used for nuclear bomb tests . There was a small population of Gilbert Islanders in this village . They worked on the various installations

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Treasure Island off Lautoka in the Fijian Islands

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Lady in pink bikini on a catarmaran at Beachcomber Island, Fiji

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