棕榈码头，塔希提岛（摄影：Jodi Cobb）

 波利尼西亚是半自治的法属领地，有118个岛屿和环礁，塔希提岛就是之一。碧海蓝天，棕榈婆娑，其间的码头也显得格外醒目。太平洋诸多岛屿领地中，法属面积仅次于美国。

A dock juts out to a small palm island, surrounded by the jewel-blue waters of Tahiti. Tahiti is just one of 118 islands and atolls that make up French Polynesia, a semi-autonomous territory of France. With its claim here and on other Pacific territories, France is the second largest presence (after the United States) in the Pacific.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Charting a New Course—French Polynesia,” June 1997, National Geographic magazine)