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TEAL HISTORY UNCOVERED IN AITUTAKI

Arriving at Aitutaki Airport

Arriving at Aitutaki Airport via Air Rarotonga 

Plaque at Aitutaki Airport

A weathered plaque at Aitutaki Airport commemorating TEAL's historic landing site at Akaiami

Check-in area at Aitutaki Airport

TEAL's iconic 'Tahitian maiden' advertising posters of the 1950's adorn the check-in area at Aitutaki Airport. This provided the inspiration to display quality copies of these at Teal Motor Lodge. 

Pristine TEAL waters of Aitutaki Lagoon

The pristine, teal waters of Aitutaki's lagoon are difficult to capture on film. This isolated location in the middle of the Pacific truly needs to be visited to be appreciated!

TEAL Jetty

The TEAL jetty at Akaiami Island c.1952 showing TEAL passengers walked along the jetty after refueling to board a launch that would ferry them back to the flying boat. (c.1952)

TEAL Jetty

The remnants of the TEAL jetty at Akaiami Island, Aitutaki

c.2021. This is where TEAL passengers were able to disembark onto a pristine tropical island paradise in the 1950s.

A private lodge at Akaiami Beach

Akaiami Paradise Lodge stands in the exact spot where the original TEAL terminal stood at Akaiami Beach 

A plaque on Akaiami Beach commemorating TEAL's historic landing site

A plaque on Akaiami Beach commemorating TEAL's historic landing site

TEAL coral jetty seen from the air

TEAL's coral jetty can be clearly seen from the air (A Vaka cruise catamaran is moored alongside)

Akaiami Island from the air

Admiring the crescent-shaped outline and pristine teal waters of Akaiami Island from the air

The pristine teal lagoon waters of Aitutaki lagoon

Your intrepid host, Stewart enjoying the pristine teal lagoon waters of Aitutaki lagoon

kaiami Island where the historic TEAL jetty can just be seen

While departing Aitutaki, the flight path takes you over Akaiami Island where the historic TEAL jetty can just be seen

Stewart's YouTube video of Akaiami Island, Aitutaki, Cook Islands c.2021. Press the PLAY icon to view.

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