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French Polynesia
Destinations
French Polynesia · Tuamotu Archipelago
Imagine an entire island, once a booming phosphate mining hub, now a Swiss cheese of tunnels and caves, overgrown and almost deserted, rising like a forgotten fortress from the Pacific.
Makatea is a rare 'uplifted atoll,' a massive coral plateau riddled with the eerie remnants of a phosphate mining industry that once employe...
French Polynesia · Austral Islands
Accessible only by an infrequent cargo ship, this is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands, crowned with the forgotten ruins of ancient cliffside fortresses.
Deep in the South Pacific, Rapa Iti is a volcanic island studded with the remains of dozens of pa'epa'e – ancient, fortified villages perche...