tahiti

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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.

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Headlines
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0111/higgins.shtml [|Captain Cook, Tahiti, and Venus - Pacific Island Parks] [|Captain Cook, Tahiti, and Venus]

RSS
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Buzzword Bingo
Canoe - [|CFP franc] - Flowers - Geckos - Helva - Marae - Music - [|Noni] - Nono (Sand Fly) - Pareu - Paul Gauguin - Polynesia - Tatoo

Tourism Portals
[|Tahiti Tourism] - [|Twitter] - [|Facebook] - [|YouTube]

Other Forums
[|Tahiti and French Polynesia] http://www.tahitiguide.com/

Radio
[|Polynésie 1ère] - Facebook

Flickr
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YouTube
[|eTahitiTravel]

Wikipedia
[|Tahiti] [|Music_of_Tahiti] [|Transit of Venus, 2012]

Bora Bora
[|Bora Bora - Tahiti-tourisme]

Papeete
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papeete http://www.ville-papeete.pf

Poe Island
http://www.poeislandtour.com

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Tahiti heritage] [|Etahititravel] [|Finding Tahiti] [|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/

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Currency
http://coinmill.com/XPF_calculator.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFP_franc

Food
[|Fruits and vegetables]

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
[] [|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.

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