Photo: Goddard Space Flight Center, Tahiti (Some rights reserved)
Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the southern Pacific Ocean. The island is located 4,400 kilometers (2,734 miles) south of Hawaii, 7,900 kilometers (4,909 miles) from Chile and 5,700 kilometers (3,542 miles) from Australia and 6,612 kilometers (4,108 miles) west of Los Angeles.
Headlines
transitionsabroad.com
Captain Cook, Tahiti, and Venus – Pacific Island Parks
Tourism Portals
Tahiti Tourism – Twitter – Facebook – YouTube
Other Forums
Tahiti and French Polynesia
http://www.tahitiguide.com/
Radio
Polynésie 1ère – Facebook
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pacificislandparks
YouTube
eTahitiTravel
Currency
http://coinmill.com/XPF_calculator.html
CFP_franc
Tahitian Language
The Tahitian language (Reo Tahiti) is an Eastern Polynesian language closely related to the other indigenous languages spoken in French Polynesia: Marquesan, Tuamotuan, Mangarevan, and Austral Islands languages. It is also related to the Rarotongan, New Zealand Māori and Hawaiian languages.
Tahitian (te reo tahiti/te reo Māʼohi)
Académie Tahitienne
Tahitian_language
Tahitian_phrasebook
Vocabulary
http://www.tahititravel.com/language.html
Maururu – Thank you
Nanu – Goodbye (telephone conversation)
Transportation
Airtahitinui – Facebook – Twitter
Air tahiti
http://www.aremiti.net
http://www.raromatai-express.com
Transit of Venus
http://www.venus-tahiti2012.org.pf/fr/Accueil.html
James Cook and the Transit of Venus
History of the transit of Venus
#TransitofVenus
Geology
This island is part of a volcanic chain formed by the northwestward movement of the Pacific Plate over a fixed hotspot. Tahiti consists of two old volcanoes—Tahiti-Nui in the northwest and Tahiti-Iti in the southeast—linked by an isthmus.
Bora Bora
Bora Bora – Tahiti-tourisme
Papeete
Papeete
ville-papeete.pf
Poe Island
http://www.poeislandtour.com
Elsewhere on the Web
Tahiti heritage
Etahititravel
Local time in Papeete
Weather
L’Institut d’Emission d’Outre-Mer (IEOM)
Tahiti.tv
http://www.tahitiguide.com
http://www.petitesannonces.pf
http://www.calgaryherald.com/travel/Tahiti+quick+guide/7529833/story.html
News
Tahiti – Google News
http://www.mooreanews.com/
http://tahitinews.co/
http://www.tahiti-pacifique.com/
Bingo
Canoe – CFP franc – Flowers – Geckos – Helva – Marae – Music – Noni – Nono (Sand Fly) – Pareu – Paul Gauguin – Polynesia – Tattoo
Wikipedia
Tahiti
Music of Tahiti
Transit of Venus, 2012
Planeta.com