David Stanley is the author of Moon Handbooks South Pacific. His Pacific Travel Guides http://www.southpacific.org/ and Pacific Travel Pictures http://www.pacific-pictures.com/ are available online.
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French Polynesia, Fiji, and Samoa have provided Hollywood with stories and settings for many classic movies, from Mutiny on the Bounty to Return to the Blue Lagoon.
Tourism is the largest industry in many Pacific island countries. Yet mass packaged tourism can be a double-edged sword.
Since the age of explorers Wallis, Bougainville, and Cook, legendary Tahiti has tickled imaginations worldwide.
In 1981, scientists in the United States and France first recognized the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which was later discovered to be caused by a virus called the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

