Reporting from Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands — The tale is told that 23-year-old Herman Melville jumped ship when he visited the Marquesas Islands in 1842. Melville, who would eventually write the ...

Pristine beaches, lush green valleys, soaring mountain peaks: The guidebook images that depict the Marquesas Islands as a tropical paradise are still accurate today, more than a century after French ...

Recent botanical exploration efforts in the rugged Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) have increased the known flora of the archipelago by an impressive 20 percent. Field research projects have ...

The road snaked along the coast as a narrow track hewn into the cliffs, hundreds of feet above the restless ocean. As I gripped the wheel of our rented four-wheel-drive, crawling along in first gear, ...

In July, UNESCO revealed the newest additions to its World Heritage List—and the remote Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific made the cut. In honor of this important decision, Windstar Cruises is ...

Wearing choker necklaces made of boar tusks, traditionally tattooed Marquesan men fiercely grunt performing the “Pig Dance” alongside a hallowed banyan tree where cannibals buried skulls of ...

Jeff Hill, a senior editor for Weissmann Travel Reports, a sister publication of Travel Weekly, visited the Marquesas. His report follows: n a place as remote as the Marquesas Islands, people don't ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The first outsiders to set eyes on people from the Marquesas – the most remote set of islands in the world – were met by tattooed and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Aranui 5 visits the Marquesas Islands every three weeks. "The whole area was packed with human heads … they lay side by side, grinning ...