Stock Photo - Nuku Hiva-.""Portrait d´une femme de Nuku Hiva"" by Ignaz Sebastian Klauber, 1821. ( Bibliothéque Nationale et Universitaire de Stasbourg)..Nuku Hiva (sometimes spelled ""Nukahiva"") is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas country of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island...Herman Melville wrote his book Typee based on his experiences in the Taipivai valley in the eastern part of Nuku Hiva. Robert Louis Stevenson's first landfall on his voyage on the Casco was at Hatihe'u, on the north side of the island, in 1888.

Stock Photo: Nuku Hiva-.""Portrait dÂ'une femme de Nuku Hiva"" by Ignaz Sebastian Klauber, 1821. ( Bibliothéque Nationale et Universitaire de Stasbourg).

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