If your bucket list includes visiting where you can ... Huahine is one of the lesser-known islands in French Polynesia and one that has earned the nickname "Garden of Eden." Technically, it ...

The vote places French Polynesia on the UN decolonization list along with 16 other territories around the world, including the British-ruled Falkland Islands and the US Virgin Islands. The ...

The Polynesian islands that span the southern part of the Pacific Ocean—the eastern most of which is Rapa Nui, or Easter Island—were initially settled by a wave of migration from Asia. It’s been less ...

As the gaps between islands grew from tens of miles at the edge of the western Pacific to hundreds of miles along the way to Polynesia, and then to thousands of miles in the case of voyages to the ...

Around 120 South Pacific islands of French Polynesia offer stunning beaches, clear water, coral reefs, marine life, and marvelous opportunities to explore whether by diving, snorkeling ...

In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl drifted on a raft made of balsa wood logs from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands on the eastern edge of Polynesia to prove that these craft, once used by South American Indians ...