Polynesian voyagers settled islands across a vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean within about 500 years, leaving a genetic trail of the routes that the travelers took, scientists say. Comparisons of ...

Luxury cruise line Paul Gauguin Cruises is bringing back its kid-friendly Moana Explorer Program for the seventh consecutive ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 6 June 2023 French Polynesia is a sprawling possession of France in the Pacific Ocean, made up of 118 volcanic and coral islands and atolls ...

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 ...

Wang Chen, head of Tahiti Nui Ocean Foods, a subsidiary of China’s Tianrui group, met with Tahitian top leaders in mid-August 2017 to announce the construction of a fish farm on Hao Atoll to begin in ...

GAMBIER ISLANDS — It was harvest time in this remote archipelago where French Polynesians produce the South Seas’ most treasured pearls. After flying almost five hours over the empty Pacific, the ...

The Chilean Ambassador to New Zealand Manahi Pakarati is the only diplomat of Polynesian Rapa Nui ancestry in the Chilean ...

French Polynesia had been on my bucket list ever since I learned of its existence, and last August, I finally made it there. My partner and I spent 16 days traveling across this dreamy French overseas ...

French Polynesia teams dominated the 2025 Molokai Hoe, with Team OPT winning the men's distance paddling event.

French customs officials have seized a record 900 kilogrammes of cocaine and 180 kilogrammes of methamphetamine aboard a sailing yacht off the Marquesas Islands – one of five archipelagos that make up ...

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 ...

The teams took off from Hale O Lono Bay in Molokai at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 12, to take on the 40-mile stretch between Molokai to Oahu, known as the Kaiwi Channel.