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New Zealand Citizens Now Need Visas For Torres Strait Area
On 22 July 2005 in an effort to clamp down on people smuggling, the Torres Strait area became an excised migration zone which means that visa ...

Published 19 years ago, updated 6 years ago

Access to the Tunisian Port of La Goulette Is Now Prohibited
The small port of La Goulette located next to the Tunis ferry and passenger terminal is no longer a port of entry and access to it is strictly ...

Published 19 years ago, updated 7 years ago

Yacht Insurance: Further Comments
Noonsite has received a lot of emails concerning the difficulty of obtaining yacht insurance, especially for the Red Sea area. Here are the latest ...

Published 19 years ago, updated 6 years ago

Yachts Experience Difficulty Finding Insurance
We are Canadians on a Canadian documented vessel planning to leave Thailand for the Red Sea and the Mediterranean in January. I have been requesting ...

Published 20 years ago, updated 6 years ago

Ice packs and little auks: from Greenland to Spitsbergen
Vagabond is now back in Longyearbyen, after a summer on the East coast of Greenland, as a logistical base for 2 scientific projects. After over 9 ...

Published 20 years ago, updated 7 years ago

New Australian biofouling protocol for arriving yachts
The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) is introducing biofouling management requirements for arriving international yachts (among ...

Published 20 years ago, updated 6 years ago