By David Brown The government of French Polynesia announced it is expanding the extent of ocean where extractive industries like seabed mining and industrial fishing will not be allowed. With this ...

A giant whale stole the show at the Summer Olympic Games, shooting out of the water as athletes competed in women's surfing semi-finals on the French Pacific island of Tahiti last month. It is for ...

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, ...

French Polynesia, with its strategic location and massive EEZ, will play a key role in France’s Indo-Pacific policy. In July 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron visited French Polynesia for the ...

French Polynesia is a pivotal element of France’s strategy in the Pacific – and offers a compelling case study for shared sovereignty within the French Republic. President of French Polynesia Moetai ...

French Polynesia has extended marine safeguards to protect essential aquatic ecosystems. According to Mongabay, French ...

Researchers claim to have settled question of whether there was contact between islanders and Americas with construction of tuber’s ‘family tree’ The sweet potato is ubiquitous enough to seem almost ...

If your dream vacation consists of swimming with manta rays, dolphins, and sea turtles above a vibrant coral reef in the turquoise waters of an endless lagoon, the swoon-worthy Rangiroa in the South ...

Paul Wallin is in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Campus Gotland, Visby SE-621 67, Sweden. The early peopling of Polynesia attracted worldwide interest in 1947, ...

The remote collection of islands in the Pacific Ocean is seeing a market ‘transformation’ thanks to a stable economy, expanded tourism and exploding demand. 13 Photos View Slide Show › By Roxana ...