Pilot's-Eye View Of The [?]Slands
pp. 52-54 · Read in the full issue
Air Pacific's Cap tain A. G. Shearer, despite his constant flights through the Pacific Islands, is not inured to the beauty of the places en route. On these two pages and p. 52 is a selection of recent aerial shots from his camera.
On this page, an unusual view of Tabiteuea Atoll and below, Abemama, both in the southern Gilbert Islands.
Above, Vila is spreading quickly.
The town area, with foreshore reclamation work going on, is on the right foreground; the island of Iririki, where the British Resident Commissioner lives, is in the harbour at right. Erakor lagoon is on the left of the town.
Lower left of the picture, a new housing area is rapidly filling up.
The building lower centre is the aged British administration centre.
Centre left, the township of Majuro, in Micronesia's Marshall Islands, a more general view of the atoll being seen below. The airstrip has recently been upgraded to international standard. Majuro's islets are strung together by causeways.
Growth of urban development in the Islands is demonstrated in the aerial shot of the heart of the city of Suva (right), with the main wharf in the foreground, and by the Raiwaqa low-cost housing complex a few miles from the wharf (above). Pictured below is Savusavu town ship strung along the coast on Fiji's second largest island, Vanua Levu. All photographs by Captain A. G. Shearer.