Many of us remember the Apollo 13 mission launched on April 11, 1970, sending three astronauts on what was intended to be ...

In case you can’t get enough of the little pygmy hippo Moo Deng from Thailand, there’s now an official song featuring the ...

Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are being returned to Chile’s Easter Island in the mid-Pacific.

While Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sitting in jail for alleged sex crimes, his private plane has been jetting all over the map ...

In 1947, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed on a log raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days to prove his theory — ...

You can never go wrong.” Beyond Tahiti, and neighboring Mo'orea, Teiefitu has one clear favorite when it comes to the rest of ...

French Polynesia is one of a handful of Pacific Islands that allow tourists to swim with humpback whales. However, the ...

The last U.N. mandated study on the effects of nuclear war was published in 1988, with a focus on climate change. At the time ...

One of the world’s most remote and beautiful spots is now easier to visit by ship, yet it’s bound to remain an exclusive holiday.

Much attention has been paid to France’s relationship with New Caledonia in recent months, but France has also been compelled ...

consistent with known ages for the same colonizing event in New Zealand and other remote islands of East Polynesia." The dated materials from Sandy Bay show that occupation continued—perhaps ...