Launched in September 2022, the Farerei Haga Rangiroa is the newest addition to a calendar of festivals held to celebrate the culture and traditions of French Polynesia. Gathering talents from the ...

A man with a tattoo on his arm fishes in Fakarava, the largest atoll in French Polynesia that ... Illustration by National Geographic The Marquesan dancing flame symbolizes the light that ...

His question is rhetorical. We are preparing to dive off the atoll of Fakarava in French Polynesia’s Tuamotu Archipelago, part of a UNESCO biosphere reserve, where some of the most reliably ...

Rimatara, French Polynesia — Every day at sunrise on the small French Polynesian island of Rimatara, Tiraha Mooroa goes for a run with Koha the dog. Koha, a scruffy border terrier mix ...

An aerial view of surfers in Teahupo'o, French Polynesia. This beach may have some of the best waves in the world but National Geographic senior marine ecologist Alan Friedlander says the coral ...

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 ...

National Day, as Bastille Day is known in the islands, falls amid the weeks-long Heiva i Tahiti festival, a cultural showcase that kicks off with the June 29 celebration of French Polynesia’s ...

Liittschwager, a photographer for National Geographic ... to make another have been wondrous sights to behold." From French Polynesia to Tasmania and southern Spain — to list a few ...

National Geographic produced this content ... Doubilet recently answered questions about his work while in French Polynesia, just before a mission to photograph sharks and coral at the Fakarava ...

In an expedition unlike any other, National Geographic photographer ... off South Africa to photograph rare coelacanths, and in French Polynesia, he dived for 24 straight hours to document the ...