Tag Archives: January 2002

Travel Quiz – East & Southern South Africa

The winner of last months' Fiji Quiz is Arthur Carmichael from the United States. We have another travel guide to give away this month, called Climbing in New Zealand by the repressible Alastair Lee who was a fantastic speaker at the January London Globetrotter meeting.

1. What is the capital of New Zealand?

2. Are the Wanaka Crags in the North Island or the South Island?

3. What watery feature would you find in Taupo, in the North Island?

4. What side of the road do you drive on in New Zealand?

5. What is a Kea?

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Pirates foiled by international co-operation!

Forget the romantic notion of Captain Hook and Cap'n Kidd – piracy is alive and well in the modern world!

Just last week, coastguards in Falmouth, in the south west of England picked up an SOS call almost 4,000 miles away from the Princess Sarah, a Greek owned ship off the Horn of Africa. The British alerted the French army based in Djibouti and Somalia who had a warship in the area. The French ship, Floreal, sent a helicopter to assist the Princess Sarah and scared the pirates off.

Incredibly, this is the second time that the Princess Sarah has been helped by the same coastguards, only a month earlier whilst off the coast of Somalia.