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The shallow quake damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's eastern ...
Authorities lifted the tsunami alert in French Polynesia’s Marquesas Islands but urged ongoing caution. Waves, reaching 1.50 ...
One of the world's strongest earthquakes since 2011 struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, with a powerful 8.8-magnitude ...
Tsunami waves began hitting the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia early on Wednesday, but the waves were forecast to be smaller than initially feared, local authorities said.The highest wave ...
At their first contact with Europeans in the 16th century, the Marquesas was home to an estimated 100,000 people. Today there are only about 8,000 islanders scattered on the six inhabited islands.
The Marquesas have only black-sand beaches and few of them. Their seas teem with sharks, and the islands have an arrogant grandeur, that makes no immediate effort to seduce.
Reporting from Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands — The tale is told that 23-year-old Herman Melville jumped ship when he visited the Marquesas Islands in 1842. Melville, who would eventually write ...
Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands. Shutterstock Although there's capacity for 250 passengers on board the Aranui 5, it's easy to escape into my own corner of the Marquesas.
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