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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. Papeete, French Polynesia — In ...

Polynesia is a popular honeymoon destination, but I traveled there solo and had a wonderful time. I rented my own scooter and stayed in guesthouses, a different experience than most honeymooners.

RAROTONGA – In a far flung corner of the South Pacific a secessionist movement is stirring with its protagonists preparing for a major battle looming half a world away. And if Oscar Manutahi Temaru ...

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We cleared through the Panama Canal and sailed back into Pacific waters for the first time in a decade-but I looked west from our 50-footer, Atea, with a sense of despondency. All of our sailing ...

The Seasteading Institute set out on a mission to build a floating, libertarian utopia in the middle of the ocean. French Polynesia, an island nation that once agreed to let the institute develop the ...

French nuclear tests in the South Pacific in the 1960s and 1970s were far more toxic than has been previously acknowledged and hit a vast swath of Polynesia with radioactive fallout, according to ...

French Polynesia was on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories from 1946 to 1947, following the transmission of information on French Establishments in Oceania by France under ...

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 ...