South Pacific

Harrison Ford and Anne Heche in Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

A classic Harrison Ford castaway film is on TV this week - exact time

Baker's Cottage at Saranac Lake in Upstate New York, where Robert Louis Stevenson enjoyed wealth and improved health after moving to be close to a TB sanitorium. PIC: Contributed.

Saving the house of Robert Louis Stevenson from the edge of ruin

Breaking Tsunami warnings across Pacific ocean after 8.8 magnitude earthquake

The Maclean brothers are 40 days and some 2,700 nautical miles into their bid to row from Lima, Peru, to Sydney, Australia without a support crew. Just 6,300 miles to go

Bid to row Pacific a reminder of power of positivity and stubbornness Scotsman comment

Jamie, Lachlan and Ewan Maclean, the three brothers from Edinburgh who are aiming to become the fastest people to row across the Pacific Ocean. PIC: Laura Eventide/PA Wire

Three Edinburgh brothers set off to break Pacific Ocean rowing record

A tiny partula snail, marked with reflective paint, prepares to retake its homeland in French Polynesia (Picture: RZSS)

Why humanity should apologise to snails travelling halfway round world Scotsman comment

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Offence at Joe Biden claim uncle may have been eaten by cannibals

Why Scotland and Vanuatu have forged a new bond in fight against climate change Ralph Regenvanu

Mr Duguid organised the meeting with Ms Voas to express his “major concerns” at the situation in the run up to Christmas.

North-east veterans of UK’s Cold War nuclear testing programme will receive comm...

The first deals struck by the UK post-Brexit will come into force on Wednesday. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Scotland’s producers deserve better than ‘rushed through’ UK trade deals

Storyteller Chief Tihoti on the French Polynesian island of Raiatea (Picture: Steven Robertson)

Scotsman Travel: French Polynesia and Hawaii make for the cruise of a lifetime

Volcanic eruption in Tonga this year shot water out of the atmosphere

The Pacific Island of Pitcairn, which was settled by members of the Mutiny on the Bounty. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A remote Pacific island named after a Scot elects first non-native leader

Some of the 390 statues, or moais in the Rapa Nui language, on the hillside of the Rano Raraku volcano in Easter Island (Picture: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images)

'Warning of Easter Island' is one that humanity must not ignore – Philip Lymbery

Sir Sean Connery poses for photographers during the photocall for Entrapment, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999

Obituary: The Sean Connery I knew

New Caledonia referendum: why the French overseas territory voted on independence from France - and results explained (Photo by THEO ROUBY/AFP via Getty Images)

New Caledonia referendum: why the French overseas territory voted on independenc...

Alice Dunn has died at the age of 87

Obituary: Alice Dunn, lover of musical theatre who entranced audiences

Humpback whales may swap songs. Iain Rudkin Photography/MCRC/PA Wire

Humpback whales swap songs amid migration trips

The Isle of Gometra is off-grid. Picture: Geograph

Hebridean residents warn: our island is going to sink

The Argyll coast has been named the UK's first Hope Spot

Scotland's west coast named UK's first Hope Spot for rich marine life

Emmanuel Macron, top left, has said New Caledonia looks to have voted to remain part of France. Pictures: AP/Getty Images

New Caledonia referendum: Citizens vote to remain part of France

Easter Island in Polynesia was once owned by two families from Fife with Scots first occupying the land in the late 19th Century. PIC: Creative Commons.

In pictures: 11 places around the world with Scottish links

Gavin Verden- Anderson

Obituary: Gavin Verden-Anderson, award-winning underwater photographer and photo...

Thomas Dausgaard PIC: Per Morten Abrahamsen/BBC/PA Wire

Music interview: multi-tasking conductor Thomas Dausgaard on his plans for the B...

Members of the Stevenson household in Vailima, Western Samoa, in 1892. PIC: Rischgitz/Getty Images

Book review: Stevenson in Samoa, Joseph Farrell

Boris Johnson, left, performs a traditional Maori greeting with New Zealand's Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy. Picture: AP

Boris Johnson compares Maori greeting to '˜Glasgow kiss'

Robert Louis Stevenson: a pioneer of the written word

Dance, physical theatre & circus review: Are We Stronger Than Winston?

Rats compete for food with native New Zealand species. Picture: AP

New Zealand announces plan to wipe out rodents by 2050

A tourist leaves the water after swimming at a beach near Suva, Fiji. Picture: AP

Severed head found on Fiji beach linked to missing Russians

Composer Stuart MacRae with The Devil Inside librettist Louise Welsh

Louise Welsh and Stuart MacRae combine for new Stevenson-inspired opera

The New Zealand flag is undergoing a redesign but definitely wont be a kiwi with laser beams shooting out of its eyes. Picture: Getty

Martyn McLaughlin: Flags can unite or divide a nation

Cameron Tindle will fly the flag for Scotland at the Commonwealth Youth Games. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Cameron Tindle aiming high after Games call-up

A resident at his damaged home in Port Vila. Picture: Getty

Vanuatu emerges after cyclone

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Aladdin (Greg Barrowman) and Princess Jasmine (Mirian Elwell-Sutton) in Aladdin. Pic: Comp

First look at Aladdin, King’s Theatre

Fijians queue up to vote at the Vatuwaqa Public School in the capital Suva. Picture: Getty

Fijians make a dash for democracy

The All Blacks perform the Haka before their drawn match against Australia in Sydney on Saturday. Picture: AP

New Zealand ‘will maintain world domination’

Early honour: Laura Davies. Picture: Getty

Grand Dame Laura Davies

A statue of Alexander Selkirk in Lower Largo, Fife. Picture: Contributed

Scottish fact of the week: Alexander Selkirk

A large prawn feeds on bait deep in the New Hebrides Trench in the South Pacific. Picture: University of Aberdeen

Scots scientists find alien world on ocean floor
REMARKABLE images of creatures rarely seen by man have been captured for the first time by University of Aberdeen scientists, after the first expedition to the ...

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Emma Cowing: Five steps for a sane Christmas

The South Island of New Zealand. Picture: Getty

New Zealand to give islands official names

Sir Chris Hoy carries the Commonwealth Games baton towards Buckingham Palace in London. Picture: Getty

Chris Hoy starts Glasgow 2014 baton relay

Pitcairn Island is one of the territories aided by Britain. Picture: AP

UK taxpayer hands £172,000 to each Pitcairn islander

Local activist Helen Hakena: 'Violence is fuelled by jealousy'. Picture: Contributed

Papua New Guinea: Witchhunts an increasing problem

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Quake triggers Solomons tsunami

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Jonathan Melville: Proclaim the rebirth of musicals

David Denton says all Scotland players must be at their best if they are to get ...

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Bye to Europe

Ex-Edinburgh councillor not guilty just days after wife’s death

Scottish QC is cleared of perjury over South Pacific ferry tragedy

Scottish QC is cleared of perjury over South Pacific ferry tragedy

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge become true South Pacific royalty

Singapore says it with flowers as Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive

The Scotsman Top Stories

Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries