Cruises from Ua Pou, Marquesa Islands
Ua Pou is the third largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific Ocean. The 15 Marquesas Islands are volcanic with the highest peak on Ua Pou at 1230m. The skyline of the centre of Uo Pou features a dozen sharp basalt peaks, often shrouded in mists, and which seem to appear in every photograph! The islands’ original inhabitants were Polynesians.
Read moreEuropean contact was intermittent from the late 1500s, and the population was decimated in the 19th C from diseases introduced by explorers.
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