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The franc is the currency of French Polynesia.

Artefacts on display include stone tools made by Polynesians prior to the arrival of the mutineers.

Charter boats from Mangareva in French Polynesia are increasingly being given access to the island.

At the 2007 census, 87.3 of people living in French Polynesia were born in French Polynesia, 9.3 were born in metropolitan France, 1.4 were born in overseas France outside of French Polynesia, and 2.0 were born in foreign countries.

Indeed, if you took all of the genius that allowed us to put a man on the moon and applied it to an understanding of the ocean, what you would get is Polynesia.

In 2008, French Polynesia's imports amounted to 2.2 billion US dollars and exports amounted to 0.2 billion US dollars.

In 1940, the administration of French Polynesia recognised the Free French Forces and many Polynesians served in World War II.

In the early 1990s, the country drew considerable criticism from other nations for its underground nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

Bora Bora is an island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean.

Oscar Temaru, however, had no stable majority in the Assembly of French Polynesia, and new territorial elections were held in February 2008 to solve the political crisis.

Distribution and diversity Ants are found on all continents except Antarctica, and only a few large islands, such as Greenland, Iceland, parts of Polynesia and the Hawaiian Islands lack native ant species.

In 1946, Polynesians were granted French citizenship and the islands' status was changed to an overseas territory the islands' name was changed in 1957 to Polynésie Française (French Polynesia).