As the scene of one of the fiercest and most destructive battles of World War II, it would ... in World War I, Palau and a number of other German possessions in the Pacific were allocated by ...

But this archipelago of 343 islands radiates a diversity of marine life throughout much of the tropical Pacific. Truly, Palau is an Eden of lush oceanic abundance. The southern reaches of the ...

Palau, a nation of islands in the western Pacific, offers white sand beaches ... tours with a local historian of the World War II relics that pepper Peleliu island, trips to Jellyfish Lake, stand-up ...

More than 200 volcanic and coral islands, many of them surrounded by a single barrier reef, make up the northern Pacific nation of Palau. Palau became independent in 1994, after being part of a ...