Nuku Hiva

Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. It was formerly called also ?le Marchand and Madison Island.

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This was the site for , the fourth installment of the popular CBS reality television show. Herman Melville wrote his book Typee based on his experiences in the Tai Pi Vai valley in the eastern part of the island. Robert Louis Stevenson's first landfall on his voyage on the Casco, was at Hatiheu, on the north side of Nuku Hiva, in 1888.

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Marquesas Islands: The Marquesas Islands, not to be confused with the Marquesas Keys of Florida, are a group of islands in French Polynesia. In French they are known as the ?les Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises, and in Marquesan they are known variously as Te Henua (K)enana (North Marquesan) and Te Fe...

French Polynesia: French Polynesia (French: Polyn?sie fran?aise, Tahitian: Porinehia Farani) is a French "overseas country" (French: pays d'outre-mer, or POM) in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which i...

Herman Melville: Herman Melville (August 1 1819 – September 28 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet. During his own lifetime his early novels, South Seas adventures, were quite popular, but his audience declined later in his life. By the time of his death he had nearly been forgotten, but his ma...

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The Astrolabe and Zelee Visiting Nuku Hiva Island in the French Marquesas Islands