The Diplomat

French Polynesia Has Its Own China Dream

“You cannot be French on Monday and Chinese on Tuesday.” –French President Emmanuel Macron, 2021. When it comes to foreign relations, national and local narratives are not always aligned in the French ...
CNN

Bye-bye Bora Bora – 15 other islands in French Polynesia

This is where some of the best of French Polynesia’s ocean adventures, cultural exploration, and, yes, romance, begins. More: 10 islands for every type of traveler 1. Taha’a Part of the Society ...
Business Insider

I spent 16 days in French Polynesia. The trip was spectacular, but these 5 things would have made it better.

Last August, Sonya Moore ticked French Polynesia off her travel bucket list. Despite a lot of planning before the trip, looking back, there are a few things she'd have done differently. She would have ...
The Diplomat

Reframing the French Indo-Pacific: French Polynesia, a Model of Shared Sovereignty?

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 ...
The Daily Beast

These Islands Are Like Hawaii But Without the Crowds

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Inverse

Did ancient Americans settle in Polynesia? The evidence doesn’t add up

How did the Polynesian peoples come to live on the far-flung islands of the Pacific? The question has intrigued researchers for centuries. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl brought the topic to public ...
Business Insider

An island nation that told a libertarian 'seasteading' group it could build a floating city has pulled out of the deal

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 ...
CNN

Indigenous Americans had contact with Polynesians 800 years ago, DNA study confirms

Indigenous Americans and Polynesians crossed thousands of miles of open ocean and made contact with each other as early as 1200 A.D., centuries before the arrival of Europeans, a new study has found.
CNN

Meet the women fighting for compensation for cancers they say were caused by France’s nuclear testing

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 ...
Nature

Native South Americans were early inhabitants of Polynesia

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 Guardian

French nuclear tests 'showered vast area of Polynesia with radioactivity'

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 ...
Reuters

Genetic study reveals how ancient seafarers settled vast Polynesia

WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Beginning more than a millennium ago, intrepid seafarers traversed vast Pacific Ocean expanses in double-hulled sailing canoes to reach the far-flung islands of ...