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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1952Vol. XXII, No. 12

Around the World Alone

p. 119 · Read in the full issue

AFTER circumnavigating the world in 2i years, Breton fish erman Jacques Yves le Tou melin, on July 7, returned to the French Atlantic port of Le Croissec, ana got a tumultuous welcome. He sailed alone in a 40-ft cutter he built himself: and, in the course of 30,000 miles, he visited South Paci fic territories, including Tahiti and New Guinea.

Mrs. Susan Georgetti, whose hus band owns and operates the small vessel “Loma,” in the Solomon Is lands, has been in Sydney on holi days recently.