Tahiti is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia.
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20 Facts About Tahiti
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Tahiti is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity and an overseas country of the French Republic.
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Tahiti was originally settled by Polynesians between 300 and 800CE.
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Tahiti Iti has remained isolated, as its southeastern half is accessible only to those travelling by boat or on foot.
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Tahiti had been sent on a scientific mission with astronomy, botany, and artistic details.
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Tahiti allied himself more and more with the missionaries, and from 1803 they taught him reading and the Gospels.
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Tahiti was impressed by what he perceived to be the positive influence the missionaries had had on the sobriety and moral character of the population.
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Tahiti had them sign a request for protection in the absence of their Queen, before then approaching her and obliging her to ratify the terms of the treaty of protectorate.
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Tahiti returned however to work towards indoctrinating the locals against the Roman Catholic French.
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Tahiti threw Pritchard into prison, and later sent him back to Britain.
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Tahiti was given the titular position of Officer of the Orders of the Legion of Honour and Agricultural Merit of France.
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Tahiti was nevertheless a special colony, since all the subjects of the Kingdom of Pomare would be given French citizenship.
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In 1891 Matthew Turner, an American shipbuilder from San Francisco who had been seeking a fast passage between the city and Tahiti, built Papeete, a two-masted schooner that made the trip in seventeen days.
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Reports showed that some people on Tahiti were exposed to 500 times the maximum allowed level for plutonium.
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Tahiti would keep an open door to a possible referendum in the future.
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Tahiti is home to a single winery, whose vineyards are located on the Rangiroa atoll.
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Major sports in Tahiti include rugby union and association football and the island has fielded a national basketball team, which is a member of FIBA Oceania.
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Tahiti Cup is the islands' premier football knockout tournament and has been played for since 1938.
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In 2010, Tahiti was chosen as the host of the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, which was held in September 2013.
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Tahiti has been represented at the World Championship of Petanque.
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