For miles on end there are hardly any inhabitants in sight on the French Polynesian island of Nuku Hiva. This South Pacific utopia is one of the world’s most remote locations and is an extraordinary ...

Nuku Hiva is so diverse, it's like four islands in one. The airport lies on a rocky, windswept coast reminiscent of a Greek Isle. The 90 minute drive to the island's main settlement at Taioha'e takes ...

Wearing choker necklaces made of boar tusks, traditionally tattooed Marquesan men fiercely grunt performing the “Pig Dance” alongside a hallowed banyan tree where cannibals buried skulls of ...

Janet Landfried recently took a trip to French Polynesia and boarded the cargo-passenger vessel Aranui 3 to visit the Marquesas Islands. This is the second in her series of columns about that voyage.

After the charred remains of a German tourist turned up at a campfire site on the South Pacific island of Nuku Hiva, local officials were left to dismiss rumors that the case involved cannibalism. A ...

Tabloid media were quick to portray slaying as a possible case of cannabalism. Oct. 30, 2011— -- In early October, the charred remains of a German adventurer were discovered at a campfire site on ...