Search for the words "south pacific" on Google or Yahoo and the South Pacific travel website http://www.southpacific.org will pop up first. Launched by guidebook writer David Stanley in 1999, South Pacific Organizer covers 15 Pacific island travel destinations. The site is built around excepts from Stanley's four Pacific travel guides.

Search for the words "south pacific" on Google or Yahoo and the South Pacific travel website http://www.southpacific.org will pop up first. Launched by guidebook writer David Stanley in 1999, South Pacific Organizer covers 15 Pacific island travel destinations. The site is built around excepts from Stanley's four Pacific travel guides.

Stanley covers Tahiti and French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, American Samoa, independent Samoa, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, Tuvalu, Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands. There are online maps, answers to frequently asked questions, and mini-guides.

The resources pages of South Pacific Organizer link to every airline and tourist office in the region. The "Island Links" are categorized by country, while the "Pacific Links" go to general sites on scuba diving, yachting, adventure tours, business, real estate, and news. A detailed catalog of books, films, and music completes the site. The ease of navigation and fast loading format makes visiting trouble free.

Aside from its content, Southpacific.org gained its high rank at search engines thanks to the thousands of links pointing to the site. Alltheweb.com counts 13,301 websites with hot links to http://www.southpacific.org (as of August, 2003).

Stanley's books are widely known around the Pacific. His opus magnum, Moon Handbooks South Pacific, was first published in 1979 and is now in its 8th edition. The 5th edition of Moon Handbooks Tahiti: Including the Cook Islands will be published in September, 2003.

Anyone curious about the South Pacific or trying to plan a trip will find this website a valuable resource. It's just the place to pick the right flight or guidebook, or to decide which destination to visit. Few regions of the world offer such a sumptuous spectrum of choice as the South Pacific.