Voyagers migrated to islands sprinkled across a large area of the Pacific within about 500 years Polynesian voyagers settled islands across a vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean within about 500 years, ...
It’s a cloudless morning and the sun is shining brightly off the coast of French Polynesia’s capital and largest city, Papeete, enhancing the water’s already vibrant shades of blue. Though just meters ...
More than 800 years ago, Indigenous people in South America traversed more than 7,000 kilometers of open sea to reach eastern Polynesia, a new study suggests. There, the South Americans mated with ...
Last August, Sonya Moore ticked French Polynesia off her travel bucket list. Despite a lot of planning before the trip, looking back, there are a few things she'd have done differently. She would have ...
Idyllic and remote, French Polynesia is an expensive place to vacation. French Polynesia is the stuff of travel bucket list dreams. Picture-perfect overwater bungalows sit perched above crystal clear ...
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Experience After graduating college in 2018, Sarah Lempa left the U.S. for Vietnam with only a backpack and her laptop. Since building an online career as a writer and marketer while traveling, her ...
Before Zika swept across most of Latin America and the Caribbean, the largest outbreak ever recorded had been in French Polynesia. Between 2013 and early 2014, researchers estimate nearly 20,000 ...
France's worst coronavirus outbreak is unfolding 12 time zones away from Paris, devastating Tahiti and other idyllic islands of French Polynesia. French Polynesia relies upon the central government ...