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Two New Places For Cruise Trippers: Guam And “The Slot"
WITH the Pacific becoming an increasingly popular pond for holiday cruise ships to sail in, the job of dreaming up new places for the ships to go to is being given more and more attention in the offices of the shipping lines.
Two new places that P and O-Orient Lines have come up with recently are Guam and New Georgia Sound in the British Solomon Islands.
The Himalaya will make P and O-Orient’s first call to Guam next March; and the Oriana will pass through New Georgia Sound during an Oriental cruise next September.
Guam, which was discovered by Magellan in 1521, is the largest island in the Marianas chain. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States and the only duty-free territory under the US flag—elec trical goods from the Far East being its special attraction for bargain hunting visitors.
New Georgia Sound, which is also known as “The Slot,” separates the two main chains of the BSIP. Some of the mountains bordering it attain a height of more than 5,000 ft.