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Tahiti (English: / t ə ˈ h iː t i / ⓘ; Tahitian; [2] French pronunciation:) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean and the nearest major landmass is Australia .
Papeete (Tahitian: Papeʻete, pronounced [pa.pe.ʔe.te]; old name: Vaiʻete [4]) is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the French Republic in the Pacific Ocean.
Its progressive rise and recognition by Europeans allowed Tahiti to remain free from a planned Spanish colonization as well as other European claims to the islands. The kingdom was one of a number of independent Polynesian states in Oceania , alongside Ra'iātea , Huahine , Bora Bora , Hawai‘i , Samoa , Tonga , Rarotonga and Niue in the 19th ...
Sacred Heart Church in Taravao (Église du Sacré-Coeur de Taravao), Tahiti Queen Pōmare IV expelled French Catholic missionaries from her kingdom in 1836 and provoked the annoyance of France. Between 1838 and 1842, French naval commander Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars responded to French complaints and forced the queen and Tahitian chiefs to ...
Afrikaans; العربية; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Català; Čeština
It was also a time of rivalry and fighting between the people of Tahiti and neighbouring islands. [12] [13] It is unclear which is the first European ship to arrive at the island of Tahiti but it is often recognised as being HMS Dolphin captained by British Captain Samuel Wallis on 18 June 1767.
Pāʻea is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, themselves part of the Society Islands. [3] At the 2022 census it had a population of 12,756. [2] Tahiti's west coast freeway runs through Pāʻea and ends in Teahupoʻo down south. Going northbound would take drivers toward Papeʻete.
The Papenoʻo (Papenoo) River is a river on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. The river rises in the mountains of Tahiti east of the town center of Papeete and ends on the coast of Tahiti near Papenoo. It is about 32 km (20 mi) long and is about 3.0 m (10 ft) wide at the mouth. All the water ends in the Pacific Ocean.