Tuvalu is a group of nine islands lying about half-way between Hawaii and Australia.
The company's Pegasus XL rocket was flown to a launch altitude of about 39, 000 feet by a specially configured L-1011 "Stargazer" jetliner taking off from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, near the equator about halfway between Hawaii and Australia.
Situated roughly equidistant from Hawaii, Japan and Australia, the atoll encircles the world's largest lagoon.
About 4, 000 passengers in total have been left stranded in Hawaii, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia as a result of the suspension, said Michael Smith, a spokesman for KordaMentha.
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Under Agassi, Better Place launched operations in Australia, Canada, China, Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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After Hawaii the PacX gliders will head on to Australia and Japan to join up with Virgin Oceanic.
She began her trip in Hawaii and island-hopped her way to Fiji then Australia, taking surf lessons, diving the Great Barrier Reef and visiting eucalyptus rainforests along the way.
Once the New York leaves Brazil it will head to South Africa with subsequent legs to Australia, Singapore, Hawaii, Jamaica and back to Liverpool, with various stops in between.
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Better Place is also targeting Australia and China, along with smaller tests in Hawaii and California.
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Four Wave Gliders departed San Francisco on Nov. 17, 2011, for Hawaii where Papa Mau and a companion robot, Benjamin, headed to Australia while two others, Piccard Maru and Fontaine Maru, set off for Japan.
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They ordered new bees, which they had air-freighted from Australia, and new queens, which were flown in from Hawaii.
The day before the tournament began, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Player had to fly from Paris to Melbourne, Australia -- via New York, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Fiji and Sydney, he said.
The gliders made it from California to Hawaii intact and have since embarked on the second leg of their trip, two to Japan and two to Australia.
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My same Hawaii honeymoon friend was ready to fork out actual cash for business class seats to Australia last year, and his travel agent actually talked him down and was able to upgrade coach seats on Air New Zealand with his United miles (he had already tried).
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