Interesting Facts

- Marlon Brando, legendary Hollywood actor, owned a French Polynesian island off the coast of Tahiti that is now an exclusive resort.

- The book 'Mutiny on the Bounty' was a telling of a real life mutiny that took place on a ship of the same name off the shores of Tahiti. The reason - the mutineers were in love with Tahitian women.

- How people came to be on the island in the first place is mystery that still baffles scientists.

- In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl, the Nowegian explorer, lead a expedition from the coast of Peru to Tahiti on a wooden raft called the Kon Tiki to proove his theory of the migration of American populations to French Polynesia. His book on the expedition was best seller and the 1951 motion picture on the event went on to win an Academy Award

- In the year 1996, France commenced nuclear weapons testing around Tahiti, but stopped shortly after following the international rebuke.