French Polynesia (Tahiti)

Blogs

• French Polynesia travel blogs from TravelBlog.org. 

Books

• Travel books about French Polynesia from Amazon.com.

Encyclopedic Information

• French Polynesia country profile from the BBC.  French Polynesia information from Yahoo! encyclopedia.
  • Papeete. 
  • Territory
    • Austral Islands.
    • Clipperton Island. 
    • Gambier Islands.
    • Marquesas Islands.
    • Society Islands.
    • Tuamotu Archipelago. 
• Tahiti information from Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia.
  • Papeete.  

Government

• French Polynesia Government Web site.  "French Polynesia with a land area of 4,200 square km, French Polynesia consists of five archipelagos of 118 volcanic or coral islands, covering a total area of 2,500,000 square km: the Society, Marquesas, Austral and Tuamotu-Gambier islands.
  
  43% of the inhabitants of French Polynesia (220,000) are aged under 20. The population is made up of nearly 83% Polynesians, 12% Europeans and 4.7% Asians. The first Europeans arrived in the sixteenth century. Historically, the conquest of the Pacific was a struggle for influence between England and France, until the Polynesian Queen Pomaré IV asked for the islands to be made a protectorate of France. Subsequently, all the archipelagos were brought under the jurisdiction of the French Republic. In 1946 French Polynesia became an overseas territory, with an autonomous status since 1996.
  
  The two traditional activities are fishing and copra cultivation. Other areas of the economy are commerce, craft industries, and more recently tourism, which now accounts for nearly 20% of GDP, and the black pearl industry which in nominal terms is the territory's most significant export sector.
  
  Following the halting of French nuclear tests at the Pacific testing centre in April 1992, the State undertook to help with the economic and social development of French Polynesia for a period of 10 years."

Maps

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• High quality up-to-date maps of French Polynesia from Maps.com the online map store.
• University of Texas at Austin Maps of French Polynesia:
  • French Polynesia (Political) 1989 (190K)
  • French Polynesia (Small Map) 2003 (8K)

News Travel news about French Polynesia from Google News. Photographs French Polynesia photographs from Flickr.com.  French Polynesia photographs from Google Images.  Reservations Travelconsumer.com reservations page.  Airline, hotel, car, and other reservations.

Tourism

• Tahiti Official Tourism Web Site.  "Much more than a group of islands, Tahiti is a wonderful state of mind, seducing honeymooners, romantics, adventurers, and vacationers looking for a tranquil escape. Here, around these South Seas isles, a romantic sunset sea sends giant curls of turquoise breaking onto the colorful reefs that protect the tranquil lagoons of warm, bright-emerald waters and white coral-sand beaches easier to travel to than you might imagine, Tahiti's Faa'a Airport is under 8 hours by air from Los Angeles LAX airport, with nonstop flights leaving nearly every day. As far south of the equator as Hawaii is north, Tahiti is halfway between California and Australia, on the same side of the International Date Line as North America, and in the same time zone as Hawaii - (only two hours behind California April-October and three hours behind California November-March)."

U.S. Government Information Resources

• CIA World Factbook on French Polynesia. 
• Department of State Consular Information Sheet on French Polynesia.

Videos

• French Polynesia travel videos from YouTube.com. 
• Travel videos of French Polynesia from Amazon.com. 

Weather

• Weather information for French Polynesia from Weather Underground.

WiFi Hot Spots

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