On a map, they are hard to make out ... Based on our travel intel and scouring sources like Tripadvisor and dive blogs, we've compiled a list of Polynesian islands that are fabulous vacation choices ...

As the gaps between islands grew from tens of miles at the edge of the western Pacific to hundreds of miles along the way to Polynesia, and then to thousands of miles in the case of voyages to the ...

In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl drifted on a raft made of balsa wood logs from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands on the eastern edge of Polynesia to prove that these craft, once used by South American Indians ...