For miles on end there are hardly any inhabitants in sight on the French Polynesian island of Nuku Hiva. This South Pacific utopia is one of the world’s most remote locations and is an extraordinary ...

Nuku Hiva is so diverse, it's like four islands in one. The airport lies on a rocky, windswept coast reminiscent of a Greek Isle. The 90 minute drive to the island's main settlement at Taioha'e takes ...

Wearing choker necklaces made of boar tusks, traditionally tattooed Marquesan men fiercely grunt performing the “Pig Dance” alongside a hallowed banyan tree where cannibals buried skulls of ...

Janet Landfried recently took a trip to French Polynesia and boarded the cargo-passenger vessel Aranui 3 to visit the Marquesas Islands. This is the second in her series of columns about that voyage.

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 ...

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PARADISE LOST: German Stefan Ramin, starting a sailing trip in Turkey in 2007, is missing in French Polynesia. Barcroft Media Police in French Polynesia are investigating whether a German yachtsman ...

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