Photogallery of pictures taken during journeys and expeditions to French Polynesia - Huahine Island.
Huahine is an island located among the Society Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island has a population of about 6,000.
Huahine measures 16 km in length, with a maximum width of 13 km. Total area of Huahine is 74,8 km2. It is made up of two main islands surrounded by a fringing coral reef with several islets, or motu. Huahine Nui (Big Huahine) lies to the north and Huahine Iti (Little Huahine) to the south. The two islands are separated by a few hundred meters of water and joined by a sandspit at low tide. A small bridge was built to connect Huahine Nui and Huahine Iti.
In the northwest of Huahine Nui lies a 375 ha brackish lake known as Lac Fauna Nui (Lac Maeva). This lake is all that remains of the ancient atoll lagoon.
One of the famous attractions on Huahine is a bridge that crosses over a stream with approx. 1.8 m long eels. These eels are deemed sacred by the locals, by local mythology. The Fa'ahia archaeological site in the north of the island has revealed subfossil remains of several species of extinct birds exterminated by the earliest Polynesian colonists of the island.
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