Reporting from Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands — The tale is told that 23-year-old Herman Melville jumped ship when he visited the Marquesas Islands in 1842. Melville, who would eventually write the ...

The Aranui 5 is a rare ship. Its front half contains cranes and cargo, its rear has 10 decks of cruise cabins and accoutrements. Sailing in French Polynesia, it provides a vital link to the Marquesas ...

Pristine beaches, lush green valleys, soaring mountain peaks: The guidebook images that depict the Marquesas Islands as a tropical paradise are still accurate today, more than a century after French ...

The road snaked along the coast as a narrow track hewn into the cliffs, hundreds of feet above the restless ocean. As I gripped the wheel of our rented four-wheel-drive, crawling along in first gear, ...

Jeff Hill, a senior editor for Weissmann Travel Reports, a sister publication of Travel Weekly, visited the Marquesas. His report follows: n a place as remote as the Marquesas Islands, people don't ...

In July, UNESCO revealed the newest additions to its World Heritage List—and the remote Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific made the cut. In honor of this important decision, Windstar Cruises is ...

The Marquesas are a beautiful, remote stretch of islands in the South Pacific. And, as of last weekend, they are also a UNESCO World Heritage site. The latest UNESCO convention added 24 new properties ...

Dawn had not yet broken when we trooped sleepily up to the bridge of the Aranui, high above the ink-black waters of the South Pacific. Captain Theodore Oputu didn't even move his head to acknowledge ...