ARTE/GombessaExpedition2017 At the south end of Fakarava Atoll, a 35-mile-long rectangle of coral in French Polynesia, a narrow channel cuts through the barrier reef. Every June thousands of ...

On a voyage to the far-flung archipelagos of French Polynesia, explore the unspoiled atolls of the Tuamotus before setting course for the remote Marquesas Islands. The Marquesas, some of which ...

Partula tohiveana, or the Moorean viviparous tree snail, was native to French Polynesia before ... according to a species profile from National Geographic. It takes them up to six months to ...

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... around Alaska, down to French Polynesia, past the tip of South America, on to Antarctica, and then up north through ...

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Once people reached western Polynesia, their explorations stalled for the next two millennia. The study suggests ...