ABC Nightlife with Rod Quinn - Lost in the Marquesas

Once upon a time if you stumbled across the Marquesas, you were really lost. Made famous in history through writings of RL Stevenson, Herman Melville and James Cook – and later through art and song of Paul Gauguin and Belgian pop star Jacques Brel – the remote French Polynesian archipelago of the Marquesas islands is now appearing on the adventure map of travellers looking for new and exotic destinations off the beaten track Editor of Cruise Passenger Magazine’s annual Adventure Guide, Roderick Eime, has just returned from a a two week exploration of the islands aboard the hybrid cruise/freighter, Aranui 3 [www.aranui.com]