Marquesas Islands
The Marquesas Islands are an archipelago of about a dozen islands in French Polynesia, most with steep mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sémhur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Sémhur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Hiva Oa and Ua Huka.
Hiva Oa
Hiva Oa is the second largest island in the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
Ua Huka
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Ua Huka is one of the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is situated in the northern group of the archipelago, approximately 25 mi to the east of Nuku Hiva, at.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Atuona Airport.
Atuona Airport
Aerodrome
Atuona Airport or Hiva Oa Airport is an airport located 4.5 kilometres northeast of Atuona, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia.
Marquesas Islands
- Type: archipelago with 9,350 residents
- Description: island group in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Circonscription Administrative des Îles Marquises”, “Marquesas”, “Marquezas Islands”, and “Tefenuaenata”
- Category: administrative subdivision of French Polynesia
- Location: French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Marquesas Islands” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Marquesaseilande”
- Arabic: “جزر الماركيز”
- Arabic: “جزر ماركيساس”
- Armenian: “Մարկիզյան կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “Isles Marqueses”
- Asturian: “Islles Marqueses”
- Asturian: “Marqueses”
- Basque: “Markesa uharteak”
- Basque: “Markesa Uharteak”
- Basque: “Markesak”
- Bavarian: “Marquesas-Insln”
- Bavarian: “Marquesasinsln”
- Belarusian: “Маркізскія астравы”
- Bengali: “মার্কেসাস দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bosnian: “Markisko otočje”
- Breton: “Inizi Markiz”
- Bulgarian: “Маркизки острови”
- Catalan: “illes Marqueses”
- Catalan: “Illes Marqueses”
- Catalan: “Marqueses”
- Cebuano: “Marquesas Islands”
- Chinese: “Marquises Kûn-tó”
- Chinese: “侯爵夫人群岛”
- Chinese: “侯爵夫人群島”
- Chinese: “瑪盔撒群島”
- Chinese: “馬克薩斯群島”
- Chinese: “马克萨斯群岛”
- Chuvash: “Маркиз утравĕсем”
- Corsican: “Isuli Marchesi”
- Croatian: “Îles Marquises”
- Croatian: “Markižansko otočje”
- Croatian: “Marquesas”
- Croatian: “Marquises”
- Czech: “Markézy”
- Danish: “Marquesas Øerne”
- Danish: “Marquesasøerne”
- Dutch: “Markiezen-eilanden”
- Dutch: “Markiezenarchipel”
- Dutch: “Markiezeneilanden”
- Dutch: “Marquesas Eilanden”
- Dutch: “Marquesas-eilanden”
- Dutch: “Marquesaseilanden”
- Dutch: “Marquisen Eilanden”
- Dutch: “Marquisen”
- Dutch: “Marquiseseilanden”
- Esperanto: “Markiza Insularo”
- Esperanto: “Markizinsuloj”
- Esperanto: “Markizoj”
- Estonian: “Markiisaared”
- Faroese: “Marquesas-oyggjar”
- Faroese: “Marquesasoyggjar”
- Finnish: “Marquesas-saaret”
- Finnish: “Marquesassaaret”
- French: “archipel des Marquises”
- French: “iles Marquises”
- French: “îles Marquises”
- French: “Îles Marquises”
- French: “Marquises”
- French: “Subdivision Administrative des Îles Marquises”
- French: “Te Fenua Enata”
- French: “Te Henua Ènata”
- French: “Tefenuaenata”
- French: “Tefenuanata”
- French: “Tehenuaenata”
- Galician: “Illas Marquesas”
- Georgian: “მარკიზის კუნძულები”
- German: “Atuona”
- German: “Marquesas-Inseln”
- German: “Marquesas”
- German: “Marquesasinseln”
- Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος Μαρκέζας”
- Greek: “Μαρκησίας Νήσοι”
- Greek: “Νήσοι Μαρκέζας”
- Gujarati: “માર્ક્વેસાસ આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
- Hawaiian: “‘Āina ‘Enata”
- Hawaiian: “‘Āina ’Enata”
- Hawaiian: “Nuʻuhiwa”
- Hebrew: “איי המרקיז”
- Hebrew: “איי מרקיז”
- Hindi: “मार्क्वेसस द्वीपसमूह”
- Hungarian: “Marquises-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Marquesas”
- Irish: “na hOileáin Mharcasacha”
- Irish: “Na hOileáin Mharcasacha”
- Irish: “Oileáin Mharcasacha”
- Italian: “Isole Marchesi”
- Italian: “Marchesi”
- Japanese: “マーケサス諸島”
- Japanese: “マルキーズ諸島”
- Japanese: “マルケサス”
- Japanese: “マルケサス諸島”
- Kannada: “ಮಾರ್ಕ್ವಸಾಸ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
- Kirghiz: “Маркиз аралдары”
- Korean: “마르키즈 제도”
- Latin: “Insulae Marchionis”
- Latvian: “Marķīza salas”
- Lithuanian: “Markizo salos”
- Lithuanian: “Markizų salos”
- Macedonian: “Маркиски Острови”
- Malagasy: “Vondronosy Marquises”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Marquesas”
- Maltese: “Gżejjer Marquesas”
- Maori: “’Enana”
- Maori: “Kāhui o ‘Enata”
- Maori: “Marquesas Islands”
- Maori: “Marquesas”
- Maori: “Moutere Marquesas”
- Marathi: “मार्क्वेसास आईसलँड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Marquises Kûn-tó”
- Mongolian: “Маркизын арлууд”
- Northern Frisian: “Marquesas-Eilunen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marquesas-øyene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marquesas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marquesasøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marquesasøyane”
- Norwegian: “Marquesasøyene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “illas Marquesas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Marquesas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Marquesas”
- Persian: “جزایر مارکیز”
- Polish: “Markizy”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago das Marquesas”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélagos das Marquesas”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas marquesas”
- Portuguese: “Marquesas”
- Romanian: “Insulele Marchize”
- Russian: “Маркизовы острова”
- Russian: “Маркизские острова”
- Samoan: “Marquesas”
- Sardinian: “Ìsulas Marchesas”
- Scots: “Marquesas Islands”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na Marquesas”
- Serbian: “Ostrva Markiz”
- Serbian: “Маркиска Острва”
- Serbian: “Острва Маркиз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Markiska ostrva”
- Sinhala: “මක්වෙසාස් දුපත්”
- Slovak: “Markézy”
- Slovenian: “Markizini otoki”
- Slovenian: “Markizovo otočje”
- Spanish: “Iles Marquises”
- Spanish: “Îles Marquises”
- Spanish: “islas Marquesas”
- Spanish: “Islas Marquesas”
- Swedish: “Archipel des Marquises”
- Swedish: “Iles Marquises”
- Swedish: “Îles Marquises”
- Swedish: “Marquesasöarna”
- Swedish: “Marquiseöarna”
- Swedish: “Marquisesöarna”
- Tahitian: “’Enana mā”
- Tamil: “மரியூசஸ் இஸ்லாண்ட்ஸ்”
- Tamil: “மார்க்கெசசுத் தீவுகள்”
- Tatar: “Маркиз утраулары”
- Telugu: “మార్క్వెసాస్ దీవులు”
- Thai: “Marquesas Islands”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะมาร์เคซัส”
- Turkish: “Markiz Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Маркізькі острови”
- Urdu: “جزائر ماکیئساس”
- Uzbek: “Markiz orollari”
- Uzbek: “Markiz Orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Marquises”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Marquises”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Marquesas”
- Western Frisian: “Markesaseilannen”
- Western Frisian: “Markwesas-eilannen”
- Western Frisian: “Markwesaseilannen”
- Western Mari: “Маркиз ошмаотывлӓ”
- Wu Chinese: “马克萨斯群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “侯爵夫人群島”
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