French Polynesia's waters— in total, an area twice the size of Texas—will be protected from all extractive activities.

Aranui Cruises adds an exciting new ship to its fleet, sailing the untouched Austral Islands with its maiden voyage scheduled for March 2027. For over 40 years, Aranui Cruises has been serving avid ...

At approximately 1 million square kilometers, it would be the world's largest fully protected area PAPEETE, Tahiti, April 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The communities of the Austral Islands yesterday ...

A new proposal could result in the creation of the largest protected natural area on Earth. Inhabitants of the Austral Islands — the southernmost islands in French Polynesia in the South Pacific — ...

RAIVAVAE, Austral Islands — Some people collect seashells. I collect lagoons. You know the kind I mean; you see them in dreams just after you fall asleep. Shimmering aquamarine water, virgin white ...

(Click through all the photos in the above gallery for more Tahitian action.) For the last 30 years, the pages of Marlin have documented the finest marlin fishing in the most virgin waters on the ...

It almost felt like a scene out of the movie musical South Pacific. Our landing craft-a WWII vintage front-loader-alighted onto the sugar-sand beach with a soft thump, and we stepped off into the ...

Thomas Pesquet: Raivavae in the Austral Islands. Ia ora na! A flight over the French Polynesia is rare as they are small in the incredibly vast Pacific ocean, and our orbit doesn’t take us over the ...

This story is part of the June 8 edition of Good Weekend. See all stories. There was little chance of sleep with the cabin in revolt. Pens, toiletries and water bottles ricocheted off the floor, ...