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Tubuai

island, French Polynesia

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Tubuai Islands

  • Visit Rurutu, French Polynesia, and watch humpback whales
    In Tubuai Islands

    …miles [29 square km]), and Tubuai (18 square miles [47 square km])—as well as the tiny, uninhabited Marotiri Islands at the southern end of the chain, and Maria Atoll in the north.

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