As he had predicted, she was carried by currents and wind to Polynesia 4, 300 miles away.
The 101-day trip was designed to prove that South Americans could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbus times.
Glossy brochures focus on ultra-swish resorts, but French Polynesia actually has a pretty wide range of accommodation options.
Trekking in the Himalayas, sunning in Polynesia, exploring ruins in Peru--Carlin can't even guess at their next destination.
The expedition was launched from Peru by anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl to demonstrate that South Americans could have settled Polynesia.
Morinda citrifolia is a small, hardy tree that grows in sandy areas along tropical coasts (French Polynesia and Hawaii).
The South Pacific island chain declared a 1.9 million-sq-km sanctuary, contiguous with one established last week by neighbouring French Polynesia.
He has cut the telephone lines to the presidency and has started running French Polynesia's affairs from nearby government buildings.
Good news, too, for those who want to spend their holiday under canvas: French Polynesia has a smattering of camping options around.
Brought into being by irresponsible nuclear tests in French Polynesia, Godzilla heads for New York in search of a really first-rate fish restaurant.
After many adventures and some frighteningly high seas they reached French Polynesia on July 30, skirting close to the isolated Puka Puka atoll.
Hurried tourists keen to experience some of French Polynesia's original soul need look no further than the burst of colour and art that illuminates Papeete every winter.
France's continuing nuclear tests in the South Pacific have turned the international spotlight, if only briefly, on Tahiti and the other islands in French Polynesia.
Of course, if you can manage to become crew on a yacht, all the remotest anchorages and untouched motus (low, palm covered islands) of French Polynesia come into reach.
BBC: Travel - Island hopping French Polynesia, without breaking the bank
The Wallis and Futuna islands, French Polynesia and New Caledonia may be scattered across the southern rim of the Pacific, separated from France by oceans and continents.
Marae Taputapuatea is a large temple complex that sits on the southeastern coast of the island of Raiatea, which was once considered to be the spiritual heart of Eastern Polynesia.
In 11 years of research he has collected anguilline myths, lore and recipes from all over the world, with particular emphasis on eel-worshipping in New Zealand and Polynesia.
Last week's move by French Polynesia overtook the Marshall Islands' area, outlined in late 2011, as the world's largest - and the Cook Island's claim adds 40% more area to that title.
When the early settlers sailed to Rapa Nui from Polynesia, life on the lost island was all about living off the sea, and evidence indicates that crude surfboards were constructed for travel and fishing.
French Polynesia is made up of some 200 islands -- the Society, Tuamotu, Gambier, Austral and Marquesas groups -- spread over 4.1 million square kilometres of Pacific Ocean: an area roughly eight times the size of France.
When he isn't skiing in Austria, sailing in Polynesia or taking one of his triannual trips to the U.S., the grandson of company founder Salvatore Ferragamo keeps busy as CEO of Il Borro, the family's 1, 730-acre Tuscan hotel.
Once common throughout Polynesia, it was hunted for centuries for its scarlet breast feathers, used to adorn the cloaks of important chieftains, and preyed upon by the rats which were introduced to the islands by human settlers from their boats.
Since then, the five acknowledged nuclear-weapons states - Russia, the U.S., France, China and Britain - have conducted more than a thousand tests, from the Australian desert (Britain in the 1950s) and the frozen wastes of Siberia's Novaya Zemlya to subterranean Polynesia, where on Sept. 5 France began its latest series of tests at Mururoa Atoll.
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