Ponant ship Le Paul Gauguin refurbished before cruise through French Polynesia, Tahiti
Paul Gauguin Cruises
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Paul Gauguin Cruises
French Polynesia is the less commercial, more authentic, and unspoiled alternative to Hawaii. Commonly miscalled Tahiti by those not-in-the-know, French Polynesia is a country encompassing more than 100 islands and atolls (including Tahiti, the most populous), and it's surprisingly easy to get to fr...
French Polynesia, overseas collectivity of France consisting of five archipelagoes in the south-central Pacific Ocean. Included are some 130 islands scattered across the Pacific between latitudes 7° and 27° S and longitudes 134° and 155° W—a total land area roughly equivalent to that of metropolitan Paris and London combined but spread across a swath of ocean five times as large as France. The archipelagoes of French Polynesia are the Society Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambier Islands, Marquesas Islands, and Tubuai Islands. The capital, Papeete, is on Tahiti, French Polynesia’s lar...