How to reach the International Date Line? PLEASE HELP!

Hey all,

I really appreciate some specialist advice. I'm trying to fulfil a life goal of reaching the International Date Line. Trouble is it has moved a lot recently and now runs through no land masses except Antarctica.

I think my best bet is to fly to one of the Pacific islands and take a boat that crosses it, e.g. between Tonga and Samoa but I cannot find passenger boats that do this. I've tried heaps of travel agents and heaps of googling, please help fellow travellers!

Extra info: I'm based in Melbourne and looking to travel between May and October. Reaching the islands is easy but surely there must be someone somewhere who could get me to the line!

Thank you so much!

Dani

Not a cheap proposition. You could try scouring the yachtie websites that advertise for crew and try your luck finding a boat that way.

you could visit the old international date line in Taveuni, and have you photo taken with one arm in yesterday and one in today,

Thanks so much for the kind ideas :)

Update your map :-). After a change some years ago the International Dateline is not situated between Samoa and Tonga anymore, but between American Samoa and Independent Samoa. So when taking the (8 hours or so, 50 AUD) trip on the weekly ferry between Apia and Pago-Pago you will cross it. Only problem - how to catch the moment it happens? Boat charter would be another option - at least the date line is only around 40 miles away.

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