In September 1943, Australian special forces undertook a special operation that is considered one of the most daring of the war. The items acquired in the raid will be reunited and put on display 56 years later in the lead up to Anzac Day.
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In 1893, Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. The ramifications of the initial coup still run deep in Hawaiian culture, and, more than a century later, Hawaiians are still trying to find their way forward.
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How a lucrative trade in WWII-era metal is leading to the disturbance of war graves throughout the Pacific.
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The story of the Mutiny aboard William Bligh’s HMS Bounty is perhaps the most documented mutiny in naval history. Far-less known however is the story of what became of Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers. In their bid to evade capture by the Royal Navy, the mutineers stumbled across an uninhabited island isolated in the expanse of the South Pacific
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