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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>History</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-History-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle History subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-History-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Historical_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Historical_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Historical culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Historical_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-European_contact" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#European_contact"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>European contact</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-European_contact-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Contemporary_history" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Contemporary_history"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Contemporary history</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Contemporary_history-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Government_and_politics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Government_and_politics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Government and politics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Government_and_politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Administration" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Administration"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Administration</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Administration-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Administration subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Administration-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Community_of_communes_of_the_Marquesas_Islands_(CODIM)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Community_of_communes_of_the_Marquesas_Islands_(CODIM)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Community of communes of the Marquesas Islands (CODIM)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Community_of_communes_of_the_Marquesas_Islands_(CODIM)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Deconcentrated_administrations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Deconcentrated_administrations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Deconcentrated administrations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Deconcentrated_administrations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Communes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Communes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Communes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Communes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demographics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Demographics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Demographics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Demographics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Demographics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Historical_population" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Historical_population"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Historical population</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Historical_population-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Migrations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Migrations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Migrations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Migrations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Language" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Language"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Language</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Language-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Language_data_in_2017_census" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Language_data_in_2017_census"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4.1</span> <span>Language data in 2017 census</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Language_data_in_2017_census-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Communications" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Communications"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Communications</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Communications-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span 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<span>Art and culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Art_and_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Biology" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Biology"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Biology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Biology-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="جزر ماركيساس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="جزر ماركيساس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islles_Marqueses" title="Islles Marqueses – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Islles Marqueses" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquises_K%C3%BBn-t%C3%B3" title="Marquises Kûn-tó – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Marquises Kûn-tó" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%B7%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8B" title="Маркізскія астравы – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Маркізскія астравы" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8" title="Маркизки острови – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Маркизки острови" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markisko_oto%C4%8Dje" title="Markisko otočje – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Markisko otočje" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inizi_Markiz" title="Inizi Markiz – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Inizi Markiz" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illes_Marqueses" title="Illes Marqueses – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Illes Marqueses" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D1%83%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%C4%95%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC" title="Маркиз утравĕсем – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Маркиз утравĕсем" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas_Islands" title="Marquesas Islands – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Marquesas Islands" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%C3%A9zy" title="Markézy – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Markézy" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynysoedd_Marquesas" title="Ynysoedd Marquesas – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Ynysoedd Marquesas" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas%C3%B8erne" title="Marquesasøerne – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Marquesasøerne" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas" title="Marquesas – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Marquesas" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markiisaared" title="Markiisaared – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Markiisaared" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CE%AE%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%B9_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%BA%CE%AD%CE%B6%CE%B1%CF%82" title="Νήσοι Μαρκέζας – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Νήσοι Μαρκέζας" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islas_Marquesas" title="Islas Marquesas – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Islas Marquesas" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markizinsuloj" title="Markizinsuloj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Markizinsuloj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markesak" title="Markesak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Markesak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B2" title="جزایر مارکیز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جزایر مارکیز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesasoyggjar" title="Marquesasoyggjar – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Marquesasoyggjar" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Eles_Marquises" title="Îles Marquises – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Îles Marquises" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na_hOile%C3%A1in_Mharcasacha" title="Na hOileáin Mharcasacha – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Na hOileáin Mharcasacha" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na_Marquesas" title="Na Marquesas – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Na Marquesas" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illas_Marquesas" title="Illas Marquesas – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Illas Marquesas" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EB%A5%B4%ED%82%A4%EC%A6%88_%EC%A0%9C%EB%8F%84" title="마르키즈 제도 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="마르키즈 제도" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-haw mw-list-item"><a href="https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu%CA%BBuhiwa" title="Nuʻuhiwa – Hawaiian" lang="haw" hreflang="haw" data-title="Nuʻuhiwa" data-language-autonym="Hawaiʻi" data-language-local-name="Hawaiian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hawaiʻi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AF%D5%AB%D5%A6%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%AF%D5%B2%D5%A6%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Մարկիզյան կղզիներ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մարկիզյան կղզիներ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marki%C5%BEansko_oto%C4%8Dje" title="Markižansko otočje – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Markižansko otočje" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepulauan_Marquesas" title="Kepulauan Marquesas – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kepulauan Marquesas" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isole_Marchesi" title="Isole Marchesi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Isole Marchesi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%96" title="איי מרקיז – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="איי מרקיז" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%96%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AB%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="მარკიზის კუნძულები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მარკიზის კუნძულები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B" title="Маркиз аралдары – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Маркиз аралдары" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%BB%D3%93" title="Маркиз ошмаотывлӓ – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="Маркиз ошмаотывлӓ" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кырык мары</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulae_Marchionis" title="Insulae Marchionis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Insulae Marchionis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C4%B7%C4%ABza_salas" title="Marķīza salas – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Marķīza salas" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markizo_salos" title="Markizo salos – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Markizo salos" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquises-szigetek" title="Marquises-szigetek – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Marquises-szigetek" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8" title="Маркиски Острови – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Маркиски Острови" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vondronosy_Marquises" title="Vondronosy Marquises – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Vondronosy Marquises" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81hui_o_%E2%80%98Enata" title="Kāhui o ‘Enata – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="Kāhui o ‘Enata" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Māori</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepulauan_Marquesas" title="Kepulauan Marquesas – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Kepulauan Marquesas" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BD_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%83%D0%B4" title="Маркизын арлууд – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Маркизын арлууд" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesaseilanden" title="Marquesaseilanden – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Marquesaseilanden" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E8%AB%B8%E5%B3%B6" title="マルキーズ諸島 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="マルキーズ諸島" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas-Eilunen" title="Marquesas-Eilunen – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Marquesas-Eilunen" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas%C3%B8yene" title="Marquesasøyene – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Marquesasøyene" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas%C3%B8yane" title="Marquesasøyane – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Marquesasøyane" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illas_Marquesas" title="Illas Marquesas – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Illas Marquesas" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markiz_orollari" title="Markiz orollari – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Markiz orollari" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markizy" title="Markizy – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Markizy" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arquip%C3%A9lago_das_Marquesas" title="Arquipélago das Marquesas – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Arquipélago das Marquesas" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ty mw-list-item"><a href="https://ty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%99Enana_m%C4%81_(Te_ta%E2%80%99amotu)" title="’Enana mā (Te ta’amotu) – Tahitian" lang="ty" hreflang="ty" data-title="’Enana mā (Te ta’amotu)" data-language-autonym="Reo tahiti" data-language-local-name="Tahitian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Reo tahiti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulele_Marchize" title="Insulele Marchize – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Insulele Marchize" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Маркизские острова – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Маркизские острова" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://sm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas" title="Marquesas – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" data-title="Marquesas" data-language-autonym="Gagana Samoa" data-language-local-name="Samoan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagana Samoa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Csulas_Marchesas" title="Ìsulas Marchesas – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Ìsulas Marchesas" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas_Islands" title="Marquesas Islands – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Marquesas Islands" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Маркиска Острва – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Маркиска Острва" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesassaaret" title="Marquesassaaret – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Marquesassaaret" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesas%C3%B6arna" title="Marquesasöarna – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Marquesasöarna" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D" title="மார்க்கெசசுத் தீவுகள் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="மார்க்கெசசுத் தீவுகள்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D1%83%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B" title="Маркиз утраулары – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Маркиз утраулары" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B9%E0%B9%88%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%AA" title="หมู่เกาะมาร์เคซัส – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="หมู่เกาะมาร์เคซัส" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markiz_Adalar%C4%B1" title="Markiz Adaları – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Markiz Adaları" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%B7%D1%8C%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8" title="Маркізькі острови – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Маркізькі острови" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="جزائر ماکیئساس – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="جزائر ماکیئساس" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%E1%BA%A7n_%C4%91%E1%BA%A3o_Marquises" title="Quần đảo Marquises – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Quần đảo Marquises" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapuropod-an_Marquises" title="Kapuropod-an Marquises – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Kapuropod-an Marquises" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A9%AC%E5%85%8B%E8%90%A8%E6%96%AF%E7%BE%A4%E5%B2%9B" title="马克萨斯群岛 – Wu" lang="wuu" 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For the language, see <a href="/wiki/Marquesan_language" title="Marquesan language">Marquesan language</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129712854">.mw-parser-output .ib-islands-title-embed{background-color:#efefef;font-weight:bold;padding:0.3em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-islands-nick,.mw-parser-output .ib-islands-native{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .ib-islands-native>div{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-islands .infobox-header{background-color:#efefef}.mw-parser-output .ib-islands-country{border-top:1px solid black;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-islands-country2{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-islands .infobox-below{text-align:left;border-top:#aaa 1px solid}</style><table class="infobox ib-islands vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Marquesas Islands</caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="ib-islands-native">Native name: <div class="nickname"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Îles Marquises</i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>)</span><br /><span title="South Marquesan-language text"><i lang="mqm">Te Fenua ʻEnata</i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/South_Marquesan_language" class="mw-redirect" title="South Marquesan language">South Marquesan</a>)</span><br /><span title="North Marquesan-language text"><i lang="mrq">Te Henua Enana</i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/North_Marquesan_language" class="mw-redirect" title="North Marquesan language">North Marquesan</a>)</span></div></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Marquesas_Islands.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Flag_of_Marquesas_Islands.svg/260px-Flag_of_Marquesas_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Flag_of_Marquesas_Islands.svg/390px-Flag_of_Marquesas_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Flag_of_Marquesas_Islands.svg/520px-Flag_of_Marquesas_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Marquesas_Islands" title="Flag of the Marquesas Islands">Flag of the Marquesas Islands</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Marquesas_map-fr.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Marquesas_map-fr.svg/260px-Marquesas_map-fr.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="257" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Marquesas_map-fr.svg/390px-Marquesas_map-fr.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Marquesas_map-fr.svg/520px-Marquesas_map-fr.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="4357" data-file-height="4301" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Geography</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Marquesas_Islands&params=9_27_S_139_23_W_type:isle"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">9°27′S</span> <span class="longitude">139°23′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">9.450°S 139.383°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-9.450; -139.383</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Archipelago</th><td class="infobox-data note"><a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Total islands</th><td class="infobox-data">15</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Major islands</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ua_Pou" title="Ua Pou">Ua Pou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ua_Huka" title="Ua Huka">Ua Huka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva ʻOa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fatu_Hiva" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatu Hiva">Fatu Hiva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tahuata" title="Tahuata">Tahuata</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">1,049.3 km<sup>2</sup> (405.1 sq mi)<sup id="cite_ref-area_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-area-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest elevation</th><td class="infobox-data">1,230 m (4040 ft)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest point</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oave" class="mw-redirect" title="Oave">Mount Oave</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ua_Pou" title="Ua Pou">Ua Pou</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Administration</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div><b>France</b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Overseas_collectivity" title="Overseas collectivity">Collectivity</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/French_Polynesia" title="French Polynesia">French Polynesia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest settlement</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Taioha%27e" title="Taioha'e">Taioha'e</a> (pop. 2,183 (2017<sup id="cite_ref-census_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>))</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Demographics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">9,346 (2017<sup id="cite_ref-census_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pop. density</th><td class="infobox-data">8.9/km<sup>2</sup> (23.1/sq mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marquesan_language" title="Marquesan language">Marquesan</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Additional information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%929:30" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−9:30">UTC−9:30</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><div style="border:4px solid #0177D3; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official name</th><td class="infobox-data">Te Henua Enata – The Marquesas Islands</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Mixed</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criteria</th><td class="infobox-data">iii, vi, vii, ix, x</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_by_year_of_inscription#2024_(46th_session)" title="List of World Heritage Sites by year of inscription">2024</a> <small>(46th <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Committee" title="World Heritage Committee">session</a>)</small></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1707/">1707</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Oceania" title="List of World Heritage Sites in Oceania">Oceania</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Marquesas Islands</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɑːr/: 'ar' in 'far'">ɑːr</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">mar-<span style="font-size:90%">KAY</span>-səss</i></a>; <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Îles Marquises</i> or <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Archipel des Marquises</i></span></i> or <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Marquises</i></span></i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="fr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">[maʁkiz]</a></span>; <a href="/wiki/Marquesan_language" title="Marquesan language">Marquesan</a>: <i><span title="North Marquesan-language text"><i lang="mrq">Te Henua ʻEnana</i></span></i> (<a href="/wiki/North_Marquesan_language" class="mw-redirect" title="North Marquesan language">North Marquesan</a>) and <i><span title="South Marquesan-language text"><i lang="mqm">Te Fenua ʻEnata</i></span></i> (<a href="/wiki/South_Marquesan_language" class="mw-redirect" title="South Marquesan language">South Marquesan</a>), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of <a href="/wiki/Volcano" title="Volcano">volcanic</a> islands in <a href="/wiki/French_Polynesia" title="French Polynesia">French Polynesia</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Overseas_collectivity" title="Overseas collectivity">overseas collectivity</a> of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> in the southern Pacific Ocean. Their highest point is the peak of <a href="/wiki/Mont_Oave" title="Mont Oave">Mount Oave</a> (French: <i lang="fr">Mont Oave</i>) on <a href="/wiki/Ua_Pou" title="Ua Pou">Ua Pou</a> island, at 1,230 m (4,035 ft) above sea level.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Archaeological research suggests the islands were colonized in the 10th century AD by voyagers from West Polynesia.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the centuries that followed, the islands have maintained a "remarkably uniform culture, biology and language".<sup id="cite_ref-fast_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fast-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Marquesas were named after the 16th-century Spanish <a href="/wiki/Viceroy_of_Peru" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroy of Peru">Viceroy of Peru</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_Hurtado_de_Mendoza,_5th_Marquis_of_Ca%C3%B1ete" title="García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete">Marquis of Cañete</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <span lang="es">Marqués de Cañete</span>), by navigator <span title="Spanish-language text"><span lang="es"><a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_de_Menda%C3%B1a_de_Neira" title="Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira">Álvaro de Mendaña</a></span></span>, who visited them in 1595. </p><p>The Marquesas Islands constitute one of the <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_French_Polynesia" title="Administrative divisions of French Polynesia">five administrative divisions</a> (<i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">subdivisions administratives</i></span></i>) of French Polynesia. The capital of the Marquesas Islands' administrative subdivision is the town of <a href="/wiki/Taiohae" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiohae">Taiohae</a>, on the island of <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a>. The population of the Marquesas Islands was 9,346 inhabitants at the time of the August 2017 census.<sup id="cite_ref-census_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_Marquesas_Islands" title="Geography of the Marquesas Islands">Geography of the Marquesas Islands</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output 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Pacific Ocean"><img alt="Marquesas is located in Pacific Ocean" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Pacific_Ocean_laea_location_map.svg/240px-Pacific_Ocean_laea_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Pacific_Ocean_laea_location_map.svg/360px-Pacific_Ocean_laea_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Pacific_Ocean_laea_location_map.svg/480px-Pacific_Ocean_laea_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="709" data-file-height="645" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:51.279%;left:65.316%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-10px;top:-10px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Marquesas"><img alt="Marquesas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg/20px-Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg/30px-Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg/40px-Cercle_rouge_100%25.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:11px"><div>Marquesas</div></div></div></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Pacific_Ocean_laea_location_map.svg" title="File:Pacific Ocean laea location map.svg">class=notpageimage| </a></div>Location of the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific Ocean</div></div></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HivaOa_BaieDesTraitres_20061110.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/HivaOa_BaieDesTraitres_20061110.jpg/290px-HivaOa_BaieDesTraitres_20061110.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/HivaOa_BaieDesTraitres_20061110.jpg/435px-HivaOa_BaieDesTraitres_20061110.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/HivaOa_BaieDesTraitres_20061110.jpg/580px-HivaOa_BaieDesTraitres_20061110.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2430" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva Oa</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Marquesas Islands group is one of the most remote in the world. It lies about 1,370 kilometres (850 mi) northeast of <a href="/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a> and about 4,800 kilometres (3,000 mi) west of Mexico (the nearest continental land mass). It is thought to have been formed by a centre of upwelling <a href="/wiki/Magma" title="Magma">magma</a>, called the <a href="/wiki/Marquesas_hotspot" title="Marquesas hotspot">Marquesas hotspot</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The islands in the group fall naturally into two geographical divisions. One is the northern group, consisting of <a href="/wiki/Eiao" title="Eiao">Eiao</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hatutu" title="Hatutu">Hatutu</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hatutaa" class="mw-redirect" title="Hatutaa">Hatutaa</a>), <a href="/wiki/Motu_One_(Marquesas_Islands)" title="Motu One (Marquesas Islands)">Motu One</a>, and the islands surrounding the large island of <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a>: <a href="/wiki/Motu_Iti_(Marquesas_Islands)" title="Motu Iti (Marquesas Islands)">Motu Iti</a>, also called <a href="/wiki/Hatu_Iti" class="mw-redirect" title="Hatu Iti">Hatu Iti</a>; <a href="/wiki/Ua_Pou" title="Ua Pou">Ua Pou</a>; <a href="/wiki/Motu_Oa" title="Motu Oa">Motu Oa</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Ua_Huka" title="Ua Huka">Ua Huka</a>). The other is the southern group, consisting of <a href="/wiki/Fatu_Uku" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatu Uku">Fatu Uku</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tahuata" title="Tahuata">Tahuata</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moho_Tani" class="mw-redirect" title="Moho Tani">Moho Tani</a> (<a href="/wiki/Motane" class="mw-redirect" title="Motane">Motane</a>), <a href="/wiki/Terihi" title="Terihi">Terihi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fatu_Hiva" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatu Hiva">Fatu Hiva</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Motu_Nao" title="Motu Nao">Motu Nao</a> (also called Thomasset Rock), which are clustered around the main island of <a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva ʻOa</a>. </p><p>The Marquesas are among the largest island groups in French Polynesia. Their combined land area is 1,049 square kilometres (405 sq mi). One of the islands in the group, Nuku Hiva, is the second-largest island in the entire territory (after <a href="/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a>). With the exception of Motu One, all the islands of the Marquesas are of volcanic origin. </p><p>Although Polynesia tends to be associated with images of lush tropical vegetation, and the Marquesas lie within the tropics, they are remarkably dry. That is because they constitute the first major break for the prevailing easterly winds that arise from the (atmospherically) dry <a href="/wiki/Humboldt_Current" title="Humboldt Current">Humboldt Current</a>. This subjects the Marquesas to frequent drought conditions. Only those islands that reach highest into the clouds (generally, higher than 750 metres (2,460 ft) above sea level) reliably have periods of precipitation. These conditions have historically led to periodic fluctuations in the availability of fresh water. Periodic lack of water has made human habitation only intermittently sustainable in certain parts of the various islands throughout the archipelago. For example, Ua Huka Island (maximum elevation 857 metres (2,812 ft)) has a history of low population levels, and Eiao Island (maximum elevation 576 metres (1,890 ft)) has been intermittently uninhabited. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islands_of_the_Marquesas">Islands of the Marquesas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Islands of the Marquesas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Marquesas_Islands" title="List of Marquesas Islands">List of Marquesas Islands</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Northern_Marquesas">Northern Marquesas</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Northern Marquesas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marquises_9631a.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Marquises_9631a.jpg/170px-Marquises_9631a.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Marquises_9631a.jpg/255px-Marquises_9631a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Marquises_9631a.jpg/340px-Marquises_9631a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2288" data-file-height="3379" /></a><figcaption>Hakaui waterfall, on <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a> island.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eiao" title="Eiao">Eiao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatutu" title="Hatutu">Hatutu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motu_Iti_(Marquesas_Islands)" title="Motu Iti (Marquesas Islands)">Motu Iti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motu_Oa" title="Motu Oa">Motu Oa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motu_One_(Marquesas_Islands)" title="Motu One (Marquesas Islands)">Motu One</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ua_Huka" title="Ua Huka">Ua Huka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ua_Pou" title="Ua Pou">Ua Pou</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Southern_Marquesas">Southern Marquesas</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Southern Marquesas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fatu_Hiva" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatu Hiva">Fatu Hiva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fatu_Huku" title="Fatu Huku">Fatu Huku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva ʻOa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moho_Tani" class="mw-redirect" title="Moho Tani">Moho Tani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motu_Nao" title="Motu Nao">Motu Nao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahuata" title="Tahuata">Tahuata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terihi" title="Terihi">Terihi</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Seamounts">Seamounts</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Seamounts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are also a number of <a href="/wiki/Seamount" title="Seamount">seamounts</a> or shoals, located primarily in the area of the northern Marquesas. Among these are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clark_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clark Bank (page does not exist)">Clark Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hinakura_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hinakura Bank (page does not exist)">Hinakura Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawson_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lawson Bank (page does not exist)">Lawson Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bank_Jean_Goguel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bank Jean Goguel (page does not exist)">Bank Jean Goguel</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geology">Geology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hatiheu_Bay,_Nuku_Hiva_(French_Polynesia).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Hatiheu_Bay%2C_Nuku_Hiva_%28French_Polynesia%29.jpg/220px-Hatiheu_Bay%2C_Nuku_Hiva_%28French_Polynesia%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Hatiheu_Bay%2C_Nuku_Hiva_%28French_Polynesia%29.jpg/330px-Hatiheu_Bay%2C_Nuku_Hiva_%28French_Polynesia%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Hatiheu_Bay%2C_Nuku_Hiva_%28French_Polynesia%29.jpg/440px-Hatiheu_Bay%2C_Nuku_Hiva_%28French_Polynesia%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4218" data-file-height="3090" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Basalt" title="Basalt">Basaltic</a> rock formation in <a href="/wiki/Hatihe%27u" title="Hatihe'u">Hatiheu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a> island.</figcaption></figure> <p>Most of the Marquesas Islands are of volcanic origin, created by the <a href="/wiki/Marquesas_hotspot" title="Marquesas hotspot">Marquesas hotspot</a> that underlies the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Plate" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Plate">Pacific Plate</a>. The Marquesas Islands lie above a submarine volcanic <a href="/wiki/Plateau" title="Plateau">plateau</a> of the same name. The plateau, like the islands, is generally believed to be less than 5 million years old, though one hypothesis is that the plateau (not the islands) is significantly older, and has been formed by forces similar to those that have formed the <a href="/wiki/Andean_Volcanic_Belt#Volcanic_gaps" title="Andean Volcanic Belt">Inca Plateau</a>, which is <a href="/wiki/Subduction" title="Subduction">subducting</a> under northern <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Marquesas islands are estimated to range in age from 1.3 million years old (Fatu Hiva) to 6 million years old (Eiao). All of them except <a href="/wiki/Motu_One_(Marquesas_Islands)" title="Motu One (Marquesas Islands)">Motu One</a> are <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_island" title="Volcanic island">volcanic islands</a>. Motu One is a <a href="/wiki/Low_island" class="mw-redirect" title="Low island">low island</a>, consisting of a small <a href="/wiki/Sand_bank" class="mw-redirect" title="Sand bank">sand bank</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Coral_reef" title="Coral reef">coral reef</a>, the only <a href="/wiki/Atoll" title="Atoll">atoll</a> in the Marquesas Islands. Unlike most French Polynesian islands, the Marquesas islands (other than Motu One) are not surrounded by protective fringing reefs.<sup id="cite_ref-tp_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tp-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In those islands, coral is found only in bays and other protected areas, or, in the case of <a href="/wiki/Fatu_Huku" title="Fatu Huku">Fatu Huku</a>, in an unusual place: in fossilized form at the top of the island. The <a href="/wiki/South_Equatorial_Current" title="South Equatorial Current">South Equatorial Current</a> lashes all these islands fiercely; its force has carved <a href="/wiki/Sea-cave" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea-cave">sea-caves</a> that dot their shores. Although the islands have valleys that empty into small bays, they are remarkable for their mountain ridges, which end abruptly in cliffs at the edge of the sea. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rainforest_Fatu_Hiva.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Rainforest_Fatu_Hiva.jpg/220px-Rainforest_Fatu_Hiva.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Rainforest_Fatu_Hiva.jpg/330px-Rainforest_Fatu_Hiva.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Rainforest_Fatu_Hiva.jpg/440px-Rainforest_Fatu_Hiva.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="812" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Breadfruit" title="Breadfruit">Breadfruit</a> tree on <a href="/wiki/Fatu-Hiva" title="Fatu-Hiva">Fatu-Hiva</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Temperatures in the Marquesas are stable all year round. Precipitation is highly variable: greater in the northern and eastern (windward) coastal areas and mountains, averaging 2,500 millimetres (98 in) annually; much lower in the western (leeward) areas. Average annual precipitation in the "desert" region of Nuku Hiva is only 510 millimetres (20 in). Droughts are frequent, sometimes lasting several years, and seem to be associated with the <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o" class="mw-redirect" title="El Niño">El Niño</a></i></span> phenomenon.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The typical variability of the sea-level climate in the Marquesas is well illustrated by measurements made at the <a href="/wiki/Atuona" title="Atuona">Atuona</a> weather station on Hiva ʻOa: The highest recorded annual rainfall there is 3,760 millimetres (148 in); the lowest is 560 millimetres (22 in).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Atuona, Hiva ʻOa </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30<br />(86) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31<br />(87) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31<br />(87) </td> <td style="background: #FF4800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31<br />(87) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29<br />(85) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29<br />(84) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28<br />(83) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28<br />(83) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29<br />(84) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29<br />(85) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30<br />(86) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30<br />(86) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">29<br />(85) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27<br />(81) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27<br />(81) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28<br />(82) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28<br />(82) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27<br />(80) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26<br />(79) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26<br />(78) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26<br />(78) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26<br />(79) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26<br />(79) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27<br />(80) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27<br />(81) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">27<br />(80) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(74) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24<br />(75) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24<br />(76) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24<br />(76) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24<br />(75) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(74) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(74) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(73) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(73) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(73) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(74) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23<br />(74) </td> <td style="background: #FF7F00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">23<br />(74) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #5B5BFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">110<br />(4.5) </td> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">91<br />(3.6) </td> <td style="background: #2E2EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">140<br />(5.4) </td> <td style="background: #4646FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">120<br />(4.6) </td> <td style="background: #4C4CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">120<br />(4.8) </td> <td style="background: #0000E8; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">180<br />(6.9) </td> <td style="background: #4C4CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">120<br />(4.8) </td> <td style="background: #6969FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">100<br />(4) </td> <td style="background: #8282FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81<br />(3.2) </td> <td style="background: #8989FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79<br />(3.1) </td> <td style="background: #9999FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66<br />(2.6) </td> <td style="background: #7A7AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89<br />(3.5) </td> <td style="background: #5B5BFF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,290<br />(50.9) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: Weatherbase<sup id="cite_ref-Weatherbase_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weatherbase-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:608px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize" style="overflow:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hiva_Oa_-_Vue_vers_le_sud-est_-_20061110.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A view of Hiva Oa, towards the south-west, with Moho Tani island visible in the distance."><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Hiva_Oa_-_Vue_vers_le_sud-est_-_20061110.jpg/600px-Hiva_Oa_-_Vue_vers_le_sud-est_-_20061110.jpg" decoding="async" width="600" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Hiva_Oa_-_Vue_vers_le_sud-est_-_20061110.jpg/900px-Hiva_Oa_-_Vue_vers_le_sud-est_-_20061110.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Hiva_Oa_-_Vue_vers_le_sud-est_-_20061110.jpg/1200px-Hiva_Oa_-_Vue_vers_le_sud-est_-_20061110.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6676" data-file-height="2472" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Hiva_Oa_-_Vue_vers_le_sud-est_-_20061110.jpg" title="File:Hiva Oa - Vue vers le sud-est - 20061110.jpg"> </a></div>A view of <a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva Oa</a>, towards the south-west, with <a href="/wiki/Moho_Tani" class="mw-redirect" title="Moho Tani">Moho Tani</a> island visible in the distance.</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kaimoko_Family._Headdress_(Peue_%27Ei),_19th_century..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Kaimoko_Family._Headdress_%28Peue_%27Ei%29%2C_19th_century..jpg/220px-Kaimoko_Family._Headdress_%28Peue_%27Ei%29%2C_19th_century..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Kaimoko_Family._Headdress_%28Peue_%27Ei%29%2C_19th_century..jpg/330px-Kaimoko_Family._Headdress_%28Peue_%27Ei%29%2C_19th_century..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Kaimoko_Family._Headdress_%28Peue_%27Ei%29%2C_19th_century..jpg/440px-Kaimoko_Family._Headdress_%28Peue_%27Ei%29%2C_19th_century..jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1202" /></a><figcaption>Kaimoko family. Headdress (Peueʻei), 19th century. Porpoise teeth, beads, <a href="/wiki/Coir" title="Coir">coir</a>. This woman's headdress was probably made on the island of Ua Pou, where porpoises abounded. In the Marquesan language, <i>ei</i> means "treasure". From the collection of the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Museum" title="Brooklyn Museum">Brooklyn Museum</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Marquesas" title="History of the Marquesas">History of the Marquesas</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Austronesian_peoples" title="Austronesian peoples">Austronesian peoples</a></div> <p>The first recorded settlers of the Marquesas were <a href="/wiki/Polynesians" title="Polynesians">Polynesians</a> who arrived from West Polynesia, descendants of the <a href="/wiki/Lapita_Culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Lapita Culture">Lapita Culture</a>. Early attempts to carbon-date evidence from the site suggested they arrived before 100 AD, with other estimates proposing settlement from 600 AD, but several more recent independent studies suggest that they arrived more recently. </p><p>For example, a 2010 study that applied higher-precision radiocarbon dating methods to more reliable samples suggests that the earliest colonisation of eastern Polynesia took place much later, within a shorter time period, and in two waves: The first was a migration into the Society Islands between about 1025 and 1120 AD (four centuries later than had previously been thought); the second, between 70 and 265 years later, was a dispersal of migrants to all the remaining Marquesas islands between about 1190 and 1290 AD.<sup id="cite_ref-fast_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fast-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This relatively rapid colonisation is believed to account for the "remarkable uniformity of East Polynesian culture, biology and language".<sup id="cite_ref-fast_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fast-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A different study, published in 2014, suggested that the date of first settlement in the Marquesas was somewhat earlier: between around 900 and 1000 AD.<sup id="cite_ref-Marquesan_homeland_hypothesis_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marquesan_homeland_hypothesis-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical_culture">Historical culture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Historical culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Domesticated_plants_and_animals_of_Austronesia" title="Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia">Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia</a></div> <p>The richness of the natural resources in the islands has historically supported a large population. The inhabitants historically made a living by fishing, collecting shellfish, hunting birds, and gardening. They relied heavily on <a href="/wiki/Breadfruit" title="Breadfruit">breadfruit</a> but raised at least 32 other introduced crops. Hard evidence of significant pre-European interarchipelago trade has been found in basalt from the Marquesan quarry island of Eiao. It is known to have been distributed via sailing canoes over distances of more than 2500 km to provide adze heads to Mo'orea (Society Islands), Mangareva (Gambier Islands), Tubuai (Austral Islands), Rarotonga (Cook Islands), and Tabuaeran (Northern Line Islands).<sup id="cite_ref-Marquesan_homeland_hypothesis_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marquesan_homeland_hypothesis-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_contact">European contact</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: European contact"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chef_de_guerre_marquisien-Mus%C3%A9e_d%27histoire_naturelle_et_d%27ethnographie_de_Colmar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Chef_de_guerre_marquisien-Mus%C3%A9e_d%27histoire_naturelle_et_d%27ethnographie_de_Colmar.jpg/170px-Chef_de_guerre_marquisien-Mus%C3%A9e_d%27histoire_naturelle_et_d%27ethnographie_de_Colmar.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Chef_de_guerre_marquisien-Mus%C3%A9e_d%27histoire_naturelle_et_d%27ethnographie_de_Colmar.jpg/255px-Chef_de_guerre_marquisien-Mus%C3%A9e_d%27histoire_naturelle_et_d%27ethnographie_de_Colmar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Chef_de_guerre_marquisien-Mus%C3%A9e_d%27histoire_naturelle_et_d%27ethnographie_de_Colmar.jpg/340px-Chef_de_guerre_marquisien-Mus%C3%A9e_d%27histoire_naturelle_et_d%27ethnographie_de_Colmar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>Traditional Marquesan warlord's headgear, ceremonial clothes, insignia, and weapon.</figcaption></figure> <p>The first Europeans to reach the Marquesas may have been the crew members aboard the <i>San Lesmes</i>, a Spanish vessel that disappeared in a storm in June 1526; it was part of an expedition headed by <a href="/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_Jofre_de_Loa%C3%ADsa" class="mw-redirect" title="García Jofre de Loaísa">García Jofre de Loaísa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Spanish explorer <span title="Spanish-language text"><span lang="es"><a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_de_Menda%C3%B1a_de_Neira" title="Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira">Álvaro de Mendaña</a></span></span> reached them nearly 70 years later, on 21 July 1595. He named the islands after his patron, <a href="/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_Hurtado_de_Mendoza,_5th_Marquis_of_Ca%C3%B1ete" title="García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete"><span title="Spanish-language text"><span lang="es">García Hurtado de Mendoza</span></span>, 5th Marquis of <span title="Spanish-language text"><span lang="es">Cañete</span></span></a> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <span lang="es">Marqués de Cañete</span>), who served as <a href="/wiki/Viceroy_of_Peru" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroy of Peru">Viceroy of Peru</a> from 1590 to 1596. Mendaña visited first <a href="/wiki/Fatu_Hiva" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatu Hiva">Fatu Hiva</a> and then <a href="/wiki/Tahuata" title="Tahuata">Tahuata</a> before continuing on to the <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a>. His expedition charted the four southernmost Marquesas as <i><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">Magdalena</i></span></i> (Fatu Hiva), <i><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">Dominica</i></span></i> (<a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva ʻOa</a>), <i><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">San Pedro</i></span></i> (<a href="/wiki/Moho_Tani" class="mw-redirect" title="Moho Tani">Moho Tani</a>), and <i><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">Santa Cristina</i></span></i> (Tahuata).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 18th century, European explorers estimated that the population was 80,000 to 100,000.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Europeans and Americans were impressed with how easy life appeared to be in the islands, which had a rich habitat and environment. In 1791, the American <a href="/wiki/Maritime_fur_trade" title="Maritime fur trade">maritime fur trader</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Ingraham" title="Joseph Ingraham">Joseph Ingraham</a> first visited the northern Marquesas while commanding the <a href="/wiki/Brig" title="Brig">brig</a> <a href="/wiki/Hope_(1764_ship)" title="Hope (1764 ship)"><i>Hope</i></a>. He named them the Washington Islands.<sup id="cite_ref-WDL_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1813, <a href="/wiki/Commodore_(United_States)" title="Commodore (United States)">Commodore</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Porter_(naval_officer)" title="David Porter (naval officer)">David Porter</a> claimed <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a> for the United States, but the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">United States Congress</a> never ratified that claim.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For a brief period the islands exported <a href="/wiki/Sandalwood" title="Sandalwood">sandalwood</a>, however the resource was depleted within four years.<sup id="cite_ref-Villiers1994_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Villiers1994-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The islands were a popular port of call for whaling ships in the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Sail" title="Age of Sail">Age of Sail</a>. The first on record to visit was the <i>Hope</i>, in April 1791.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last known such visitor was the American whaler <i>Alaska</i> in February 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pareu_haka.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Pareu_haka.jpg/220px-Pareu_haka.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Pareu_haka.jpg/330px-Pareu_haka.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Pareu_haka.jpg/440px-Pareu_haka.jpg 2x" data-file-width="892" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption>Marquesans dressed in <a href="/wiki/Pareu" class="mw-redirect" title="Pareu">pareu</a> demonstrating traditional dance, 1909</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1842, France conducted a successful military operation in support of the native chief <a href="/w/index.php?title=Iotete&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iotete (page does not exist)">Iotete</a>'s claim that he was king of the whole island of Tahuata. The French government then laid claim to the whole island group and established a settlement on Nuku Hiva. That settlement was abandoned in 1857, but France re-established control over the group in 1870. It later incorporated the Marquesas into <a href="/wiki/French_Polynesia" title="French Polynesia">French Polynesia</a>. </p><p>The indigenous people of the Marquesas suffered high death rates from <a href="/wiki/Infectious_disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Infectious disease">diseases</a> carried by Western explorers, such as <a href="/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Measles" title="Measles">measles</a>, because none of them had any <a href="/wiki/Immunity_(medical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Immunity (medical)">immunity</a> to them. </p><p>The Marquesas lost more people to death from these diseases than any other island group in Polynesia. The population shrank from over 78,000 inhabitants in the 18th century to about 20,000 by the middle of the 19th century, and to just over 4,000 by the beginning of the 20th century,<sup id="cite_ref-history_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-history-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reaching an all-time low of 2,255 in 1926. After that, the population started to increase, reaching 8,548 by the time of the November 2002 census<sup id="cite_ref-RP71_02_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RP71_02-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (not including the Marquesan community residing in <a href="/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a>), and 9,346 by the time of the August 2017 census.<sup id="cite_ref-census_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Contemporary_history">Contemporary history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Contemporary history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2024, the Marquesas Islands were listed as a <a href="/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site" class="mw-redirect" title="UNESCO World Heritage Site">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a> under "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Te_Henua_Enata&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Te Henua Enata (page does not exist)">Te Henua Enata</a>" (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">The Land of Men</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>), as part of the <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Committee" title="World Heritage Committee">committee</a>'s commitment to conservation efforts protecting indigenous populations.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_and_politics">Government and politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Government and politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Marquesas Islands form one of the <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_French_Polynesia" title="Administrative divisions of French Polynesia">five administrative divisions</a> (<i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">subdivisions administratives</i></span></i>) of French Polynesia. French and Tahitian are the official languages of government. The capital of the Marquesas Islands administrative subdivision is the settlement of <a href="/wiki/Taiohae" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiohae">Taiohae</a> on the island of <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a>. </p><p>The sparsely populated Marquesas Islands are located 1,371 km (852 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a>. With 183,645 inhabitants (2012 census), Tahiti is the most populous island of French Polynesia, containing 68.5% of the total population of the grouping.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Residents of the Marquesas have chafed at Tahiti's overwhelming dominance, complaining of neglect by politicians based in Tahiti, and leaders have suggested developing a direct relationship with the metropole, the government in Paris, instead of depending on <a href="/wiki/Papeete" title="Papeete">Papeete</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-secession_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-secession-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As sentiment was rising in Tahiti in the 21st century for independence from France, several prominent Marquesan political leaders in 2007 floated the idea of the Marquesas Islands separating from French Polynesia but remaining within the French Republic.<sup id="cite_ref-secession_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-secession-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This has generated controversy in Tahiti, where pro-independence Tahitian leaders have accused the French central government of encouraging the separation of the Marquesas Islands from French Polynesia.<sup id="cite_ref-secession_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-secession-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administration">Administration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Marquesas_Islands" title="Flag of the Marquesas Islands">Flag of the Marquesas Islands</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Community_of_communes_of_the_Marquesas_Islands_(CODIM)"><span id="Community_of_communes_of_the_Marquesas_Islands_.28CODIM.29"></span>Community of communes of the Marquesas Islands (CODIM)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Community of communes of the Marquesas Islands (CODIM)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Marquesas Islands do not have a provincial or regional assembly, but since 2010 the six <a href="/wiki/Communes_of_France" title="Communes of France">communes</a> (municipalities) into which the Marquesas Islands are divided have gathered to form an <a href="/wiki/Communes_of_France#Intercommunality" title="Communes of France">intercommunality</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Communaut%C3%A9_de_communes" title="Communauté de communes">community of communes</a> of the Marquesas Islands (in French: <i>communauté de communes des îles Marquises</i>, or CODIM).<sup id="cite_ref-CTR_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CTR-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As all communities of communes in France, the CODIM is not a full-fledged <a href="/wiki/Territorial_collectivity" title="Territorial collectivity">territorial collectivity</a>, but only a federation of communes (in French Polynesia, only the overseas collectivity of French Polynesia and the 48 communes are territorial collectivities). The CODIM is governed by a president and by a community council (<i>conseil communautaire</i>) which is made up of 15 delegates elected by the municipal councils of the six communes among their members, with each commune having a number of delegates proportional to the size of its population. The president of the CODIM and the community council have their offices in <a href="/wiki/Atuona" title="Atuona">Atuona</a>, on the island of <a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva Oa</a>. The current president is <a href="/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Kautai" title="Benoît Kautai">Benoît Kautai</a>, mayor of <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a>, who was elected president by the community council in July 2020 after the <a href="/wiki/2020_French_municipal_elections" title="2020 French municipal elections">2020 French municipal elections</a> and is due to serve for six years until the next municipal elections.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The community of communes of the Marquesas Islands was created in 2010 with the aim of delegating powers both from the six communes and from the overseas collectivity of French Polynesia to this new intercommunal structure, due to the isolation of the Marquesas Islands and distance from the seat of the French Polynesian government in Tahiti.<sup id="cite_ref-CTR_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CTR-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The government of French Polynesia transferred to the CODIM the power to oversee economic development. As a result, the CODIM is now in charge of drafting a blueprint for local economic development. The French Polynesian government also transferred to the CODIM the power to grant subsidies in favor of cultural and sports activities. Transfers of powers from the six communes to the CODIM have been extremely limited.<sup id="cite_ref-CTR_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CTR-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Besides drafting a blueprint for economic development and granting subsidies for cultural and sports activities, the CODIM is currently in charge only of creating hiking trails, drafting studies for waste collection (but not actually managing waste collection, which the communes kept for themselves), drafting a blueprint for transports between the islands of the archipelago, acquiring computers and office equipment for the six communes of the archipelago, and offering legal and technical support to the six communes.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The French Polynesian public auditor (<i>chambre territoriale des comptes</i>) has pointed out that the actions of the CODIM have been very limited and fallen short of its theoretical powers due to a very small budget (less than 100 million Pacific Francs, i.e. less than US$1 million).<sup id="cite_ref-CTR_27-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CTR-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, the CODIM has not exercised its power to acquire computers and office equipment for the six communes of the archipelago, and more generally its creation has not led to a pooling of resources and expenses by the six communes.<sup id="cite_ref-CTR_27-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CTR-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of the CODIM's budget has been spent on drafting a blueprint for local economic development, but the CODIM has neither the power nor the financial means to implement the blueprint and build the required infrastructure. The public auditor has called for an expansion of the powers and financial resources of the CODIM.<sup id="cite_ref-CTR_27-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CTR-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Deconcentrated_administrations">Deconcentrated administrations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Deconcentrated administrations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Administratively, the Marquesas Islands form a <a href="/wiki/Decentralisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Decentralisation">deconcentrated</a> subdivision of both the French central State and the government of French Polynesia. As a deconcentrated subdivision of the French central State, the Marquesas Islands form the administrative subdivision of the Marquesas (French: <i lang="fr">subdivision administrative des Marquises</i>), one of <a href="/wiki/French_Polynesia" title="French Polynesia">French Polynesia</a>'s five <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_French_Polynesia" title="Administrative divisions of French Polynesia">administrative subdivisions</a>. The head of the administrative subdivision of the Marquesas is the <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">administrateur d'État</i></span></i> ("State administrator"), generally simply known as <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">administrateur</i></span></i>, also sometimes called <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">chef de la subdivision administrative</i></span></i> ("head of the administrative subdivision"). The <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">administrateur</i></span></i> is a civil servant under the authority of the High Commissioner of the French Republic in French Polynesia in <a href="/wiki/Papeete" title="Papeete">Papeete</a>. The <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">administrateur</i></span></i> and his staff sit in <a href="/wiki/Taiohae" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiohae">Taiohae</a>, on the island of <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a>, which has become the administrative capital of the Marquesas Islands, having replaced <a href="/wiki/Atuona" title="Atuona">Atuona</a> on the island of <a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva ʻOa</a>, which was previously the capital (although, in reverse to this general trend, Atuona was selected as the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Communaut%C3%A9_de_communes" title="Communauté de communes">community of communes</a> of the Marquesas Islands in 2010). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FatuIva_Hanavave_Port_20061111.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/FatuIva_Hanavave_Port_20061111.jpg/280px-FatuIva_Hanavave_Port_20061111.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/FatuIva_Hanavave_Port_20061111.jpg/420px-FatuIva_Hanavave_Port_20061111.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/FatuIva_Hanavave_Port_20061111.jpg/560px-FatuIva_Hanavave_Port_20061111.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5527" data-file-height="2553" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hanavave" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanavave">Hanavave</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hakahau.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Hakahau.jpg/220px-Hakahau.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Hakahau.jpg/330px-Hakahau.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Hakahau.jpg/440px-Hakahau.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1504" data-file-height="1031" /></a><figcaption>View of Hakahau, Ua Pou, from the sea</figcaption></figure> <p>Acting as the representative of the French central State and delegate of Papeete's High Commissioner, the <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">administrateur</i></span></i> of the Marquesas is in charge of: </p> <ul><li>Offering legal advice to the <a href="/wiki/Commune_in_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Commune in France">communes</a> (municipalities) of the Marquesas and verifying the legality of decisions made by the communes</li> <li>Issuing official documents (<a href="/wiki/National_identity_card_(France)" title="National identity card (France)">ID cards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Driving_licence_in_France" title="Driving licence in France">driving licences</a>, etc.), applying immigration rules, organising elections</li> <li>Managing security (coordination of <a href="/wiki/National_Gendarmerie" title="National Gendarmerie">gendarmerie</a> forces, handling of major crises such as natural disasters, etc.)</li> <li>Overseeing public services of the French central State in the Marquesas Islands (such as the correctional facility on Nuku Hiva)</li></ul> <p>As a deconcentrated subdivision of the government of French Polynesia, the Marquesas Islands form the <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">circonscription des Marquises</i></span></i> ("district of the Marquesas"), one of French Polynesia's four <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">circonscriptions</i></span></i> ("districts") created in 2000 by the <a href="/wiki/Assembly_of_French_Polynesia" title="Assembly of French Polynesia">Assembly of French Polynesia</a> to serve as deconcentrated subdivisions of the government of French Polynesia in the islands away from <a href="/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moorea" class="mw-redirect" title="Moorea">Moorea</a>. The head of the <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">circonscription des Marquises</i></span></i> is the <i><span title="Tahitian-language text"><i lang="ty">tavana hau</i></span></i>, known as <i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">administrateur territorial</i></span></i> in French ("territorial administrator"), but the <a href="/wiki/Tahitian_language" title="Tahitian language">Tahitian</a> title <i><span title="Tahitian-language text"><i lang="ty">tavana hau</i></span></i> is most often used. The <i><span title="Tahitian-language text"><i lang="ty">tavana hau</i></span></i> is the direct representative of the <a href="/wiki/President_of_French_Polynesia" title="President of French Polynesia">president of French Polynesia's government</a> who appoints him. The <i><span title="Tahitian-language text"><i lang="ty">tavana hau</i></span></i> and his staff sit in Taiohae on Nuku Hiva, same as the State administrator. </p><p>The <i><span title="Tahitian-language text"><i lang="ty">tavana hau</i></span></i> is in charge of: </p> <ul><li>Coordinating the work of French Polynesian administrations in the Marquesas Islands (such as the French Polynesian administrations in charge of roads, fisheries, etc.)</li> <li>Ensuring the enforcement of acts passed by the Assembly of French Polynesia and decisions taken by the government of French Polynesia</li> <li>Evaluating the performance of French Polynesian civil servants and sending the evaluations to the responsible ministries in Papeete</li> <li>Acting as a liaison between the local population and the government of French Polynesia in Papeete</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marquesas-administrative.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Marquesas-administrative.png/250px-Marquesas-administrative.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Marquesas-administrative.png/375px-Marquesas-administrative.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Marquesas-administrative.png/500px-Marquesas-administrative.png 2x" data-file-width="1281" data-file-height="1593" /></a><figcaption>Communes of the Marquesas Islands</figcaption></figure> <p>The Marquesas Islands also form the electoral district of the Marquesas Islands, one of <a href="/wiki/French_Polynesia" title="French Polynesia">French Polynesia</a>'s six electoral districts for the <a href="/wiki/Assembly_of_French_Polynesia" title="Assembly of French Polynesia">Assembly of French Polynesia</a> (see also <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_French_Polynesia" title="Politics of French Polynesia">Politics of French Polynesia</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Communes">Communes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Communes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Marquesas Islands are subdivided in six <a href="/wiki/Commune_in_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Commune in France">communes</a> (municipalities). In each of the six communes the local residents with either a French or another <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">EU</a> citizenship elect a municipal council and a mayor in charge of managing local affairs within the commune. Three communes (<a href="/wiki/Nuku-Hiva" title="Nuku-Hiva">Nuku-Hiva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ua_Pu" class="mw-redirect" title="Ua Pu">Ua-Pou</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hiva-Oa" title="Hiva-Oa">Hiva-Oa</a>) are further subdivided into <a href="/wiki/Associated_communes_of_France" title="Associated communes of France">associated communes</a> due to their larger population. The communes and associated communes are the only elected councils in the Marquesas since there does not exist a provincial or regional assembly for the entire archipelago (the community council of the CODIM (<a href="/wiki/Communaut%C3%A9_de_communes" title="Communauté de communes">community of communes</a> of the Marquesas Islands) is not directly elected by local residents, but is only made up of delegates chosen by the municipal councils of the six communes). Municipal elections are held every six years on the same day as municipal elections in the rest of France (see <a href="/wiki/2020_French_municipal_elections" title="2020 French municipal elections">2020 French municipal elections</a> for the last municipal elections). Each municipal council then selects delegates among its members to sit in the community council of the CODIM in <a href="/wiki/Atuona" title="Atuona">Atuona</a> (on the island of <a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva Oa</a>). </p><p>The areas and populations of the communes at the 2012 Census were as follows: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nuku-Hiva" title="Nuku-Hiva">Nuku-Hiva</a> (388 km<sup>2</sup>): 2,966</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ua_Pu" class="mw-redirect" title="Ua Pu">Ua-Pou</a> (106 km<sup>2</sup>): 2,173</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ua_Huka" title="Ua Huka">Ua-Huka</a> (83 km<sup>2</sup>): 621</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiva-Oa" title="Hiva-Oa">Hiva-Oa</a> (327 km<sup>2</sup>): 2,190</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahuata" title="Tahuata">Tahuata</a> (61 km<sup>2</sup>): 703</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fatu_Hiva" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatu Hiva">Fatu-Hiva</a> (85km<sup>2</sup>): 611</li> <li><i>Total</i> (1,049km<sup>2</sup>): 9,264</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical_population">Historical population</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Historical population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table align="center" rules="all" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" style="border: 1px solid #999; border-right: 2px solid #999; border-bottom:2px solid #999; background: #f3fff3"> <tbody><tr> <th>1799</th> <th>1853</th> <th>1863</th> <th>1872</th> <th>1883</th> <th>1892</th> <th>1902</th> <th>1911</th> <th>1921</th> <th>1926</th> <th>1931</th> <th>1936 </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">50,000 to<br />100,000</td> <td align="center">11,900</td> <td align="center">8,650</td> <td align="center">6,045</td> <td align="center">5,576</td> <td align="center">4,445</td> <td align="center">3,963</td> <td align="center">3,116</td> <td align="center">2,300</td> <td align="center">2,255</td> <td align="center">2,283</td> <td align="center">2,400 </td></tr> <tr> <th>1946</th> <th>1956</th> <th>1962</th> <th>1971</th> <th>1977</th> <th>1983</th> <th>1988</th> <th>1996</th> <th>2002</th> <th>2007</th> <th>2012</th> <th>2017 </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">2,976</td> <td align="center">4,165</td> <td align="center">4,838</td> <td align="center">5,593</td> <td align="center">5,419</td> <td align="center">6,548</td> <td align="center">7,358</td> <td align="center">8,064</td> <td align="center">8,548</td> <td align="center">8,632</td> <td align="center">9,264</td> <td align="center">9,346 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="13" align="center"><small>Past estimates and official figures from past censuses.<sup id="cite_ref-census_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RP71_02_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RP71_02-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RP2007_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RP2007-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Migrations">Migrations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Migrations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The places of birth of the 9,346 residents of the Marquesas Islands at the 2017 census were the following:<sup id="cite_ref-migration_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-migration-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>63.2% were born in the Marquesas Islands (down from 70.5% at the 2007 census)</li> <li>29.2% in <a href="/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a> (up from 20.9% at the 2007 census)</li> <li>4.0% in <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_France" title="Metropolitan France">Metropolitan France</a> (down from 4.5% at the 2007 census)</li> <li>2.5% in French Polynesia (other than the Marquesas Islands and Tahiti) (down from 3.0% at the 2007 census)</li> <li>0.8% in foreign countries (up from 0.6% at the 2007 census)</li> <li>0.3% in <a href="/wiki/Overseas_France" title="Overseas France">overseas France</a> (other than French Polynesia) (down from 0.5% at the 2007 census)</li></ul> <p>Between the 2007 and 2017 censuses, the population of residents of the Marquesas Islands born in Tahiti rose by 50.5% (from 1,810 at the 2007 census to 2,726 at the 2017), and as a result, they made up 29.2% of the population in 2017. A lot of these arrivals from Tahiti, however, are children of Marquesans who had migrated to Tahiti and given birth there, and whose children are returning to the Marquesas, as can be seen in the language statistics: 50.8% of the Marquesas Islands' residents whose age was 15 or older and who were born in Tahiti and lived in the Marquesas at the 2017 census reported that the language they spoke the most at home was <a href="/wiki/Marquesan_language" title="Marquesan language">Marquesan</a>, whereas 42.1% reported <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>, and only 6.6% reported <a href="/wiki/Tahitian_language" title="Tahitian language">Tahitian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-language_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-language-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FatuIva_Omoa_Church_20061111.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/FatuIva_Omoa_Church_20061111.jpg/300px-FatuIva_Omoa_Church_20061111.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/FatuIva_Omoa_Church_20061111.jpg/450px-FatuIva_Omoa_Church_20061111.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/FatuIva_Omoa_Church_20061111.jpg/600px-FatuIva_Omoa_Church_20061111.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Church of Our Lady of Peace (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Église de Notre-Dame-de-Paix</i>), Omoa, <a href="/wiki/Fatu-Hiva" title="Fatu-Hiva">Fatu-Hiva</a></figcaption></figure> <p>3,353 people born in the Marquesas Islands lived on the island of Tahiti at the 2017 census (down from 3,493 at the 2007 census), whereas 5,907 people born in the Marquesas Islands lived in the Marquesas (down from 6,106 at the 2007 census), and 705 lived in the rest of French Polynesia (up from 679 at the 2007 census).<sup id="cite_ref-migration_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-migration-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The total number of people born in the Marquesas Islands and living in French Polynesia decreased from 10,278 at the 2007 census to 9,965 at the 2017 census, as net births were not able to offset the departures to <a href="/wiki/New_Caledonia" title="New Caledonia">New Caledonia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_France" title="Metropolitan France">Metropolitan France</a> due to the economic crisis experienced by French Polynesia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most of the population of the Marquesas Islands is <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christian</a> as a consequence of the missionary activity of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, and various <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant Christian</a> groups. The main church in the area is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Taiohae (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Taiohae</i>), seat of the Catholic Diocese of Taiohae (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Dioecesis Taiohaënus seu Humanae Telluris</i>). </p><p>According to 2017 data 90.1%<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the population of the Marquesas Islands was affiliated with the Catholic Church,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an increase from 1950 when Catholics formed 87.3% of population of the islands.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the <a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_de_Menda%C3%B1a_de_Neira" title="Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira">Mendaña</a> ships had chaplains on board, there does not appear to have been any serious attempt at missionary work in the Marquesas Islands. The first missionaries to arrive in the Marquesas from 1797, coming from <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> via Tahiti, were <a href="/wiki/William_Pascoe_Crook" title="William Pascoe Crook">William Pascoe Crook</a> (1775–1846) and John Harris (1754–1819) of the <a href="/wiki/London_Missionary_Society" title="London Missionary Society">London Missionary Society</a>. Harris could not endure the conditions at all and returned to Tahiti only a few months later.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A contemporary report says that he was picked up on the beach, utterly desperate, naked and looted. Crook remained until 1799.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nuku_Hiva_-_Cath%C3%A9drale_Notre-Dame_de_Taiohae_-_20061109.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Nuku_Hiva_-_Cath%C3%A9drale_Notre-Dame_de_Taiohae_-_20061109.jpg/220px-Nuku_Hiva_-_Cath%C3%A9drale_Notre-Dame_de_Taiohae_-_20061109.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Nuku_Hiva_-_Cath%C3%A9drale_Notre-Dame_de_Taiohae_-_20061109.jpg/330px-Nuku_Hiva_-_Cath%C3%A9drale_Notre-Dame_de_Taiohae_-_20061109.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Nuku_Hiva_-_Cath%C3%A9drale_Notre-Dame_de_Taiohae_-_20061109.jpg/440px-Nuku_Hiva_-_Cath%C3%A9drale_Notre-Dame_de_Taiohae_-_20061109.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Cathedral of Our Lady of the Marquesas Islands (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Îles Marquises</i>), <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> mission from Hawaii was no more successful. <a href="/wiki/William_Patterson_Alexander" title="William Patterson Alexander">William Patterson Alexander</a> (1805–1864), Benjamin Parker (1803–1877), and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Armstrong_(Hawaii_missionary)" title="Richard Armstrong (Hawaii missionary)">Richard Armstrong</a> (1805–1860) arrived in the Marquesas in 1834 from <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a> with their wives and a three-month-old baby. They returned the same year. In 1853, more missionaries led by James Kekela (1824–1904) arrived at Fatu Hiva with their wives from Hawaii, but were unable to remain there because of clashes with Catholic missionaries arriving on a <a href="/wiki/French_Armed_Forces" title="French Armed Forces">French warship</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestants</a> went to Hiva Oa, and also had little success. There were few converts; tribal warfare and human sacrifice continued. Protestant missionaries gradually left Hiva Oa and returned to Hawaii, and only James Kekela remained. In 1899, he returned to Hawaii, dying in Honolulu on 29 November 1904.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hawaiian-born missionary James Bicknell translated the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">Gospel of John</a> into the Marquesan language in 1857. </p><p>From 1838 to 1839, the Catholic mission was able to establish itself, supported by the French order <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Pères et religieuses des Sacrés-Cœurs de Picpus</i></span> (founded in 1800). The missionaries spread from Mangareva to Tahuata, Ua Pou, Fatu Hiva and <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a>. They suffered the same hostile tribal reception as the previous Protestants. However, with the support of the French authorities, they were able to sustain themselves in the long run, despite the obstacles. They even managed to baptize King Moana of Nuku Hiva who, however, would die of <a href="/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a> in 1863. </p><p>The missionaries of all denominations did their best to eradicate the traditional culture in any way possible. Not only were the Christians disapproving of the long-enjoyed consumption of <a href="/wiki/Kava" title="Kava">kava</a>, the ancient and sacred tattoo artwork, and general dancing and traditional music, but they were especially horrified by tribal <a href="/wiki/Fertility" title="Fertility">fertility</a>/virility rites and <a href="/wiki/Skull" title="Skull">skull dissection</a>. However, they also tried –  and finally succeeded –  putting an end to <a href="/wiki/Human_cannibalism" title="Human cannibalism">cannibalism</a>, human sacrifice and constant tribal warfare. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Language">Language</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Marquesan_language" title="Marquesan language">Marquesan language</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Baie_de_Hane_-_Chargement_copra_(2).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Baie_de_Hane_-_Chargement_copra_%282%29.JPG/220px-Baie_de_Hane_-_Chargement_copra_%282%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Baie_de_Hane_-_Chargement_copra_%282%29.JPG/330px-Baie_de_Hane_-_Chargement_copra_%282%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Baie_de_Hane_-_Chargement_copra_%282%29.JPG/440px-Baie_de_Hane_-_Chargement_copra_%282%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="853" /></a><figcaption>Loading <a href="/wiki/Copra" title="Copra">copra</a> on a boat in the bay of <a href="/wiki/Hane,_Marquesas_Islands" title="Hane, Marquesas Islands">Hane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ua_Huka" title="Ua Huka">Ua Huka</a> island.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tahitian_language" title="Tahitian language">Tahitian</a> are the official languages of all of French Polynesia, but the Marquesan languages, in their various forms, remain the primary means of communication among residents within this archipelago. In addition, knowledge of French is now almost universal among residents of the Marquesas Islands (see census data below). </p><p>Marquesan is a collection of East-Central <a href="/wiki/Polynesian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Polynesian language">Polynesian language</a> dialects, of the Marquesic group, spoken in the Marquesas Islands of <a href="/wiki/French_Polynesia" title="French Polynesia">French Polynesia</a>. They are usually classified into two groups, North Marquesan and South Marquesan, corresponding roughly along geographic lines. </p><p>The North Marquesan dialects are spoken on the islands of <a href="/wiki/Ua_Pu" class="mw-redirect" title="Ua Pu">Ua Pu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a>, and South Marquesan dialects on the islands of <a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva ʻOa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tahuata" title="Tahuata">Tahuata</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fatu_Hiva" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatu Hiva">Fatu Hiva</a>. The dialects of <a href="/wiki/Ua_Huka" title="Ua Huka">Ua Huka</a> are often incorrectly classified as North Marquesan; they are instead transitional. While the island is in the northern Marquesas group, the dialects show more morphological and phonological affinities with South Marquesan. The North Marquesan dialects are sometimes considered to be two separate languages: North Marquesan and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tai_Pi_Marquesan_language&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tai Pi Marquesan language (page does not exist)">Tai Pi Marquesan</a>, the latter being spoken in the valleys of the eastern third of the island of Nuku Hiva, in the ancient province of <a href="/wiki/Tai_Pi_(province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tai Pi (province)">Tai Pi</a>. </p><p>The most striking feature of the Marquesan languages is their almost universal replacement of the <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/r/</span> or <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/l/</span> of other Polynesian languages by a <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ʔ/</span> (glottal stop). </p><p>Like other Polynesian languages, the phonology of Marquesan languages is characterised by a paucity of consonants and a comparative abundance of vowels. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Language_data_in_2017_census">Language data in 2017 census</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Language data in 2017 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the 2017 census, 97.0% of the population whose age was 15 and older reported that they could speak French (up from 94.1% at the 2007 census). 92.6% reported that they could also read and write it (up from 90.2% at the 2007 census). Only 1.9% of the population whose age was 15 and older had no knowledge of French (down from 4.4% at the 2007 census).<sup id="cite_ref-language_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-language-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lang_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the same census, 66.9% of the population whose age was 15 and older reported that the language they spoke the most at home was Marquesan (down from 67.8% at the 2007 census). 30.2% reported that French was the language they spoke the most at home (up from 30.1% at the 2007 census). 2.3% reported <a href="/wiki/Tahitian_language" title="Tahitian language">Tahitian</a> (up from 1.4% at the 2007 census), and 0.6% reported another language (down from 0.7% at the 2007 census).<sup id="cite_ref-language_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-language-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>4.9% of the population whose age was 15 and older reported that they had no knowledge of any Polynesian language at the 2017 census (down from 7.2% at the 2007 census).<sup id="cite_ref-language_34-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-language-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lang_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Communications">Communications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Communications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ua_Pou_-_Tapageuse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Ua_Pou_-_Tapageuse.jpg/220px-Ua_Pou_-_Tapageuse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Ua_Pou_-_Tapageuse.jpg/330px-Ua_Pou_-_Tapageuse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Ua_Pou_-_Tapageuse.jpg/440px-Ua_Pou_-_Tapageuse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="586" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/P400-class_patrol_vessel" title="P400-class patrol vessel">P400-class patrol vessel</a> <i>La Tapageuse</i> docked at <a href="/wiki/Hakahau" title="Hakahau">Hakahau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ua_Pou" title="Ua Pou">Ua Pou</a> island.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Airports">Airports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Airports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are four airports in the Marquesas, one each on the islands of <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva_Airport" title="Nuku Hiva Airport">Nuku Hiva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ua_Pou_Airport" title="Ua Pou Airport">Ua Pou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ua_Huka_Airport" title="Ua Huka Airport">Ua Huka</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Atuona_Airport" title="Atuona Airport">Hiva ʻOa</a>. The terrain of Tahuata is too irregular to allow for the construction of a landing strip without significant investment, and while the upland plateau of central Fatu Hiva is large enough to permit the construction of an airstrip, the island's minuscule population makes such an exercise of dubious benefit. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Telecommunications">Telecommunications</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Telecommunications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Marquesas are served by telephone as well as by radio and television, mainly from <a href="/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a>. Recent additions include <i>Vini</i>, a mobile phone service that is a commercial subsidiary of the public <a href="/wiki/Office_des_postes_et_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9communications_de_Polyn%C3%A9sie_fran%C3%A7aise#Filiales" class="mw-redirect" title="Office des postes et télécommunications de Polynésie française">OPT Polynesia</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_des_postes_et_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9communications_de_Polyn%C3%A9sie_fran%C3%A7aise#Filiales" class="extiw" title="fr:Office des postes et télécommunications de Polynésie française">fr</a>]</span>, the sole provider of fixed telephony in most of Polynesia. Over a period of about six years, Vini has expanded to cover most of the populated islands. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Container_for_tattoo_tools,_Pua_Mau_Valley,_Marquesas_Islands,_Bishop_Museum,_B.05280.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Container_for_tattoo_tools%2C_Pua_Mau_Valley%2C_Marquesas_Islands%2C_Bishop_Museum%2C_B.05280.JPG/170px-Container_for_tattoo_tools%2C_Pua_Mau_Valley%2C_Marquesas_Islands%2C_Bishop_Museum%2C_B.05280.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Container_for_tattoo_tools%2C_Pua_Mau_Valley%2C_Marquesas_Islands%2C_Bishop_Museum%2C_B.05280.JPG/255px-Container_for_tattoo_tools%2C_Pua_Mau_Valley%2C_Marquesas_Islands%2C_Bishop_Museum%2C_B.05280.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Container_for_tattoo_tools%2C_Pua_Mau_Valley%2C_Marquesas_Islands%2C_Bishop_Museum%2C_B.05280.JPG/340px-Container_for_tattoo_tools%2C_Pua_Mau_Valley%2C_Marquesas_Islands%2C_Bishop_Museum%2C_B.05280.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1820" data-file-height="2898" /></a><figcaption>Container for tattoo tools, wood, Pua Mau Valley, <a href="/wiki/Atuona" title="Atuona">Atuona</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hiva_Oa" title="Hiva Oa">Hiva Oa</a> island.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Art_and_culture">Art and culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Art and culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Marquesan_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Marquesan culture">Marquesan culture</a></div> <p>The Marquesas Islands have a rich tradition of art. Art of the Marquesas ranges from large wooden sculptures of ancestors created for temples to small, intricate personal ornaments made from bone and shell. Carved <a href="/wiki/Wood_carving_in_the_Marquesas_Islands" title="Wood carving in the Marquesas Islands">wooden</a> objects were decorated in elaborate anthropomorphic and geometric motifs, similar to tattoo designs that are part of a traditional practice.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biology">Biology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Biology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Marquesas_tropical_moist_forests" title="Marquesas tropical moist forests">Marquesas tropical moist forests</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Fauna_of_the_Marquesas_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Fauna of the Marquesas Islands">Fauna of the Marquesas Islands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flora_of_the_Marquesas_Islands" title="Flora of the Marquesas Islands">Flora of the Marquesas Islands</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Ecosystem" title="Ecosystem">ecosystem</a> of the Marquesas has been devastated in some areas by the activities of <a href="/wiki/Feral" title="Feral">feral</a> livestock. As a first step in preserving what remains, the <a href="/wiki/Marquesan_Nature_Reserves" title="Marquesan Nature Reserves">Marquesan Nature Reserves</a> were created in 1992. </p><p>In 1996 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucien_Kimitete&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lucien Kimitete (page does not exist)">Lucien Kimitete</a>, the Mayor of <a href="/wiki/Nuku_Hiva" title="Nuku Hiva">Nuku Hiva</a>, proposed that the Marquesas become a UNESCO <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TI2022_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TI2022-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 2022 public consultations on their listing began.<sup id="cite_ref-TI2022_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TI2022-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The French government formally lodged an application with UNESCO in January 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Te Henua Enata was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List on July 31, 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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It just scored a huge international recognition"</a>. <i>CNN</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=CNN&rft.atitle=This+island+paradise+only+gets+a+few+thousand+visitors+a+year.+It+just+scored+a+huge+international+recognition&rft.date=2024-07-31&rft.aulast=Marcus&rft.aufirst=Lilit&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2024%2F07%2F31%2Ftravel%2Fmarquesas-islands-french-polynesia-unesco-intl-hnk%2Findex.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarquesas+Islands" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2706/">"UNESCO World Heritage: 26 new sites inscribed - UNESCO World Heritage Centre"</a>. <i>whc.unesco.org</i>. 1 August 2024.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=whc.unesco.org&rft.atitle=UNESCO+World+Heritage%3A+26+new+sites+inscribed+-+UNESCO+World+Heritage+Centre&rft.date=2024-08-01&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwhc.unesco.org%2Fen%2Fnews%2F2706%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarquesas+Islands" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=G267:47/1"><i>Chart of the Island Otaheite, by Lieut. J. Cook 1769</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101208150535/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=G267%3A47%2F1">Archived</a> 8 December 2010 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. National Maritime Museum. nmm.ac.uk</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-secession-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-secession_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-secession_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-secession_26-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rue89.com/2007/12/23/polemique-a-tahiti-les-marquises-veulent-se-rapprocher-de-paris?page=0">Polémique à Tahiti: les Marquises veulent se rapprocher de Paris</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080302115403/http://rue89.com/2007/12/23/polemique-a-tahiti-les-marquises-veulent-se-rapprocher-de-paris?page=0">Archived</a> 2 March 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Rue 89, 23 December 2007</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-CTR-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-CTR_27-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CTR_27-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CTR_27-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CTR_27-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CTR_27-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CTR_27-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChambre_territoriale_des_comptes_de_la_Polynésie_française2016" class="citation web cs1">Chambre territoriale des comptes de la Polynésie française (14 September 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/EzPublish/PFR2017-001.pdf">"Rapport d'observations définitives. 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(2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/51602/rec/18"><i>Adorning the world: art of the Marquesas Islands</i></a>. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781588391469" title="Special:BookSources/9781588391469"><bdi>9781588391469</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Adorning+the+world%3A+art+of+the+Marquesas+Islands&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=The+Metropolitan+Museum+of+Art&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=9781588391469&rft.au=Kjellgren%2C+Eric&rft.au=Ivory%2C+Carol+S.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Flibmma.contentdm.oclc.org%2Fcdm%2Fcompoundobject%2Fcollection%2Fp15324coll10%2Fid%2F51602%2Frec%2F18&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarquesas+Islands" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>, <i>In the South Seas</i>, 1896.</li> <li>Urmenyhazi, Attila. 2013 book publication: <i>Samoan & Marquesan Life in Oceania: a probing travelogue</i>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780646909127" title="Special:BookSources/9780646909127">9780646909127</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Australia_Bib_ID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Library of Australia Bib ID (identifier)">NLA</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6377055">6377055</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marquesas_Islands&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marquesas_Islands" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Marquesas Islands">Marquesas Islands</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Marquesas"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Marquesas">"Marquesas" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. 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