French Polynesia teams dominated the 2025 Molokai Hoe, with Team OPT winning the men's distance paddling event.

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 ...

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The film Makatea Vertical Adventure by Guillaume Broust that documents the birth of climbing on the remote island of Makatea in French Polynesia. Makatea in the middle of the Pacific Ocean looks like ...

Adventurous travelers can summit Mount Otemanu in Bora Bora, one of 118 islands and atolls in French Polynesia. Photograph by Maridav, Alamy Stock Photo Hawaiians revere Tahiti as part of their ...

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 ...

Climate change, overfishing and pollution have reduced coral coverage in places like the Florida Keys from 30 to 40 percent down to just 2 percent. But many reefs in French Polynesia remain ...

The territory's president wants a Pacific-wide ban on seabed mining amid deferring view on the issue in the region.

FILE - This July 27, 1995 file photo shows the Mururoa Atoll bases, 750 miles southeast of Tahiti, French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean. French Polynesian President Edouard Fritch said Thursday the ...

Hawaiians revere Tahiti as part of their ancestral homeland, referred to as Kahiki. But with French Polynesia’s capital, Papeete, located more than 2,700 miles south of Hawaii’s capital in Honolulu, ...