Marquesas Islands
Sailing between volcanic islands at the edge of the Pacific
The Marquesas Islands rise from the Pacific like the spines of a drowned mountain range — volcanic, dramatic, and impossibly remote. Located over a thousand miles from Tahiti, these islands are among the most isolated inhabited places on earth. The sailing here is blue-water and demanding, the anchorages wild, and the landscape unlike anything else in Polynesia.
Between passages, you anchor in bays where waterfalls drop from cathedral cliffs into the sea, hike to archaeological sites that predate European contact by centuries, and dive in waters where hammerheads and mantas patrol the deep. The Marquesan culture is fierce and proud — this is not the Polynesia of resort brochures.
This expedition is for sailors and adventurers who want to experience the Pacific as it was before the world shrank. The passages are real, the islands are wild, and the experience is unlike anything a cruise ship could offer.
Our Marquesan sailing guide has crossed the Pacific multiple times and knows these islands — their anchorages, their currents, their stories — with the intimacy of someone who has spent a lifetime among them.
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