“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.