A TOTAL solar eclipse undertook a 11,000km arc over the Pacific this morning, plunging remote islands into darkness in a heavenly display which climaxed on Easter Island. In Tahiti, the effect was so stunning it drew crowds of football-mad Polynesians away from their television sets and the World Cup final to turn their eyes to the skies instead, reported Agence France-Presse Some 5000 astronomers spread out across the atolls of French Polynesia to gaze in rapture through special glasses as the...
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