Ever since Capt. James Cook and his crew arrived in the South Pacific’s Marquesas Islands in 1774, sailors have been getting tattoos. And while body art has since grown trendy, I’m getting my ...

The majority are located in French Polynesia, such as the Tuamotus, the Australs, the Gambiers and the most remote archipelago of the entire Pacific, the Marquesas Islands. Sea Wolf is one of just ...

The desert sits near the Mongolian border and receives occasional snow. The Marquesas Islands archipelago is known in its indigenous Polynesian language as Te Henua Enata, which translates to "the ...