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47 unusual facts about Tahiti


2010 Oceanian Futsal Championship

The number of participating nations rose to seven, up from four in 2009, as New Zealand, Tuvalu and French Polynesia (under the name "Tahiti") returned to the competition.

2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final

The 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Final will be the last match of the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup will take place on September 28, 2013 at the Tahua To'ata Stadium, in the Tahitian capital, Papeete.

Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars

In Tahiti, he entered into a confrontation with Queen Pōmare IV and the English missionary and Consul George Pritchard (1796–1883), and finally expelled him and established a French protectorate over the territory.

ActionQuest

ActionQuest runs sailing and SCUBA training programs throughout the Caribbean, Australia, Ecuador and the Galapagos, Tahiti, and the Mediterranean.

By the late 1990s, ActionQuest included programs in satellite locations such as Tahiti and French Polynesia, Fiji, Australia, and the Galapagos.

Aleamotuʻa

In about April 1826, two Tahitian Missionaries, Hape and Tafeta, from the London Missionary Society (LMS), stopped over in Nuku’alofa on their way to Lakeba in Fiji.

Armand Joseph Bruat

During this time, he was also France's agent at the court of Queen Pomare of Tahiti, where he was able to convince her to acknowledge a French protectorate over her realm.

Assara albicostalis

It has a wide distribution and has been recorded from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Sabah, the Philippines, Taiwan, Sulawesi, Australia, Fiji, Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii and the Marquesas.

Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages

During the course of this programme its whole history is discovered: carved on Easter Island while there was still wood of the Toromiro tree (now extinct on the island), to represent the god Makemake, traded with the crew of captain Cook's ship, transported to Tahiti, probably traded by the Tahitians with the crew of an American whaling ship and ended up in the US.

Bison Dele

On 6 July 2002 Dele and his girlfriend, Serena Karlan, along with skipper Bertrand Saldo, sailed from Tahiti on Dele's catamaran, the Hukuna Matata.

Botanic Gardens St. Vincent

In 1787-88 Captain Bligh made his ill-fated voyage on the Bounty to Tahiti to collect breadfruit and other useful plants for the West Indies.

CAMS 55

Twenty-nine remained in service at the outbreak of World War II, with the last examples serving with Escadrille 20S in Tahiti until January 1941.

Clinical ethnography

Clinical ethnography has strong similarities to person-centered ethnography, a term used by Robert I. Levy, a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist, to describe his anthropological fieldwork in Tahiti and Nepal in the 1960s-1980s and used by many of his students and interlocutors.

Colonial Fiji

One memorable incident occurred in September 1917 when Count Felix von Luckner arrived at Wakaya Island, off the eastern coast of Viti Levu, after his raider, the Seeadler, had run aground in the Cook Islands following the shelling of Papeete in the French territory of Tahiti.

Cultural variations in adoption

Tahitians practice “fa’a’amu” adoption (meaning literally “giving to eat” adoption).

Culture of the Marquesas Islands

Much of Polynesia, including the original settlers of Hawaii, Tahiti, Rapa Iti and Easter Island, was settled by Marquesans, believed to have departed from the Marquesas as a result more frequently of overpopulation and drought-related food shortages, than because of the nearly constant warfare that eventually became a prominent feature of the islands' culture.

Today, Marquesan culture is a mélange created by the layering of the ancient Marquesan culture, with strong influences from the important Tahitian culture and the politically important French culture.

Danielle Manning

The two later marry and move to Tahiti, where Danielle is born and raised, although her mother silently questions her paternity.

Diamondhead, Mississippi

Most of the roads are named with Hawaiian names, the various community centers and private homes have a Hawaiian look, including prominent Kona/Tahitian roof lines.

Eddy Etaeta

He is best known within Oceania for coaching Tahiti to their 2012 OFC Nations Cup title, and is known worldwide for coaching the team during their 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup campaign.

Eugène Vieillard

Employed as a surgeon with the merchant navy, from 1855 to 1857, he collected plants in Tahiti with gardener-botanist Jean Armand Isidore Pancher.

French invasion of Honolulu

They also took the king's yacht, Kamehameha III, which was sailed to Tahiti and never returned.

Hawaiian religion

At some point a significant influx of Tahitian settlers landed in the Hawaiian islands, bringing with them their religious beliefs.

Heinrich Sylvester Theodor Tiling

He combined this knowledge with what he had seen on his return voyage to Europe 1851–1852 as ships surgeon from Ayan via Sachalin, Kamchatka, Sitka, Hawaii, Tahiti, around the Cape Hoorn and through the Atlantic Ocean back to the baltic seaport Kronstadt, now a suburb of St.Petersburg.

Hell Ship Mutiny

After capturing the three man gang, Knight takes them to Tahiti for trial where the men escape and force Knight to sail them to New Zealand.

Henry Crampton

Crampton made twelve separate expeditions over the course of his career to Moorea near Tahiti to study the land snail genus Partula, while years more were spent measuring and cataloguing his specimens.

In the Wake of the Bounty

They then joined a passing boat and went to Tahiti where they spent two months filming more footage.

Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor

Whilst scouting for locations to film a movie in Tahiti about the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, David Lean is notified that his property master, Eddie Fowlie, had discovered an anchor at the bottom of the sea which had belonged to Captain Cook.

Mitra coffea

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, Mauritius and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Tahiti and Hawaii

New World Publications

In November 2010, after five years of extensive field photography in the Pacific, New World Publications published Reef Creature Identification - Tropical Pacific, the most comprehensive field guide ever published about the marine invertebrate community of the vast region stretching from Thailand to Tahiti.

Nguyễn Văn Tường

On 23 November 1885, Tường was deported to Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean where he died in February 1886.

Pagan Love Song

Set in Tahiti, it was based on the novel Tahiti Landfall by William S. Stone.

Pitkern language

Following the Mutiny on the Bounty, the British mutineers stopped at Tahiti and took 18 Polynesian people, mostly women, to the remote island of Pitcairn and settled there with them.

Ricco

During the forties, he crossed the ocean on a freighter, and lived for a while in Tahiti.

Sammlung für Völkerkunde

The collection consists of approximately 17,000 items and focuses on the South Pacific with the Cook-Forster collection, containing items from Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, and New Zealand, and on Siberia and the polar regions with the Baron von Asch collection.

Seafarers

Recent maternal mitochondrial DNA analysis suggests that Polynesian seafarers, including Tongans, Samoans, Niueans, Cook Islanders, Tahitians, Hawaiians, Marquesans and Māori, are genetically linked to indigenous peoples of parts of Southeast Asia, including those of Taiwan.

Serendipity 3

It is made with 5 scoops of the Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla covered in 23K edible gold leaf, drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porcelana, and covered with chunks of Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela's coast.

Skulker

The title was apparently inspired by the band being rejected for a gig as a house band at a resort in Tahiti because they were "too fat".

Strioterebrum swainsoni

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along South Africa and in the Pacific Ocean along Hawaii and Tahiti.

Sutherland Astronomical Society

The Society was formed in June 1961, and was then known as the James Cook Astronomers Club (JCAC), named after Captain James Cook, English explorer who first landed in Australia at Kurnell (a suburb in the Sutherland Shire) after successfully observing a transit of Venus from Tahiti.

Svante Kede

Svante Kede has painted landscapes and figure motifs from Spain and Northern Africa, the mountains of Lapland and landscapes, and figure motifs from Tahiti.

Tahiti at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships

Tahiti competed at the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China, July 16-31, 2011.

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

On the fictional Pacific island of Talua in French Polynesia, some 500 miles from Tahiti, Father Doonan (Spencer Tracy), has been relieved of his duties by Father Perreau (Kerwin Mathews).

Tiara Tahiti

Some time after the war, Aimsley's comfortable exile in Tahiti is rudely interrupted by the arrival of his old adversary, now director of a hotel chain looking to expand into the burgeoning South Seas market.

Tupaia

Tupaia (navigator) — an 18th Century Tahitian navigator, arioi ("high priest") of local noble lineage, who accompanied Lt. James Cook as navigational guide on the latter's famous first voyage of discovery in HM Bark Endeavour.

Weaver Hawkins

From 1923 until 1935 Hawkins and his wife and children traveled widely in France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Tahiti and New Zealand before finally settling in Australia.

You May Not Kiss the Bride

Off to spend their honeymoon at a remote tropical resort somewhere in Tahiti, Masha's boyfriend Brick (Vinnie Jones), who is in love with her (although she does not return the feeling), follows them.


2011 Oceanian Futsal Championship

The defending champions, the Solomon Islands, retained their title, defeating Tahiti by six goals to four in the final.

Australia at the 1930 British Empire Games

The Australians' return home was delayed because the RMS Tahiti on which they were due to travel sank during the Games.

Charles Nordhoff

They went to Tahiti in the Society Islands for research and inspiration, and ended up staying, Nordhoff for twenty years, Hall for life.

Hawaii–Tahiti relations

The French admiral Dupetit Thouars, that had invaded Tahiti, landed in Hawaii a decade before in 1837 aboard the French frigate La Venus and had demanded the Premier Kaʻahumanu II and the young King Kamehameha III to stop persecuting the French Catholic missionaries; at that time Dupetit Thouars was only a captain of an exploring expedition and didn't have the power or men to put any pressure on the Hawaiians.

Japanese cruiser Asama

On 21 August 1920, it made a training voyage to Hong Kong, Singapore, Columbo, Durban, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Valparaíso, Tahiti, Truk and Saipan, thus circumnavigating the globe east to west.

Jean Gabilou

Born into a family of ten children, he grew up in Papeete, Tahiti until the age of 13, before moving to Faa'a with his family.

José Bové

Bové has also intervened to support the movements of the Tahitians and the Kanaks, the indigenous Melanesian people of New Caledonia.

Karl Heinrich von Nassau-Siegen

He sailed around the world with Bougainville, "fought tigers bare-handed" in Central Africa and reportedly seduced the Queen of Tahiti.

Krzysztof Baranowski

The course of the travel led among others through the Canary Islands, Caribbean, Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, Seychelles, Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

Luc-Marie Bayle

Other locations included in this collection are Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora and Mangareva, as well as the less frequented Île Saint-Paul, Macquarie Island, Kerguelen Islands, and the Balleny Islands.

Lyncina ventriculus

This species is distributed in the eastern Indian Ocean (Malaysia, Estern Indonesia, Cocos Islands and Christmas Island), in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean (South China Sea, Taiwan, Philippines, Samar Island, Guam, Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, eastern Polynesia, Tahiti and Hawaii).

Matt Kennedy Gould

Gould received the $100,000 prize for which he was "competing," along with a plasma television and separate vacations to Tahiti and to a spa resort.

Nicholas Chevalier

In 1869 he joined the H.M.S. Galatea as an artist with the Duke of Edinburgh, on the voyage to the East and back to London with stops in Tahiti, Hawaii, Japan, China, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and India.

Nicholas DeVore III

Physical and technical prowess proved him a go-to for arduous assignments: South Pacific canoeing with celestial navigators, Polynesian rafting from Hawaii to Tahiti, Arctic dog sledding, trekking Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary.

Pōmare V

On 29 June 1880, he gave Tahiti and its dependencies to France, whereupon he was given a pension by French government and the titular position of Officer of the Orders of the Legion of Honour and Agricultural Merit of France.

Ramón Freire

After failing in his purpose, he was imprisoned in the port of Valparaíso, court-martialled, and exiled first to the island of Juan Fernández, and afterwards to Tahiti and in 1837 temporarily settled in Australia.

Rehua

In Tahiti, Rehua was a star-god, the star of the New Year, who produced the Twins as well as the Pleiads, and considered lord of the year.

Robert I. Levy

Robert I. Levy (b 1924, d. 29 August 2003, Asolo, Veneto, Italy) was an American psychiatrist and anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Tahiti and Nepal and on the cross-cultural study of emotions.

Stephen Low

Based in Montreal, Quebec, over his 30-plus year career Low has directed numerous award-winning film documentaries including Challenger: An Industrial Romance (1980), Beavers (1988), Titanica (1991), Super Speedway (1997), Volcanoes of the Deep Sea (2003), Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag (2004), Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D (2010), Legends of Flight 3D (2010), Rescue 3D (2011) and Rocky Mountain Express (2011).

Stuart Dickinson

He made his international refereeing debut in 1997 in a Rugby World Cup qualifier between Tahiti and Papua New Guinea.

Talofa

Another Samoan salutation To life, live long! properly translated Ia ola! also echoes in places such as Aotearoa (New Zealand), where the formal greeting in Māori is Kia ora and in Tahiti (French Polynesia) where it is 'Ia orana.

Tea for Two

a short piece by Dmitri Shostakovich (Op.16), also called Tahiti Trot, based on the song

The Last Trackers of the Outback

The documentary, co-directed by Eric Ellena and Vanessa Escalante, won the Public’s Choice Award 2008 FIFO - Pacific International Documentary Film Festival of Tahiti.

This Side of Paradise

Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth.