While the Pacific sporting world was focusing on the Pacific Games in Honiara, another international sporting spectacle is taking place on Rarotonga this week - an event with distinctly Pacific roots.
More than 100 people gathered at Iolani Palace for a day of hula, song, and prayer commemorating the queen, the United Kingdom s longest-reigning monarch.
Britain will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne with four days of festivities beginning with her ceremonial birthday parade in London on Thursday, June 2. Here in Hawaiʻi, ʻIolani Palace will join other locations across the world in celebration.