Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific picked up four Outer Critics Circle awards - outstanding revival of a musical, outstanding director of a musical for Bartlett Sher, outstanding actor in a musical for Paulo Szot and outstanding featured actor in a musical for Danny Burstein.

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The archipelago is a hazardous traffic median in the great circle route, the shortest path between ports on either side of the North Pacific.

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