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Over several centuries after 500CE the Polynesian voyagers made their way North continuing to Hawaiian Islands, then east to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and finally south to Tuamotu Archipelago and the Tahitian Islands.
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First landing on Matavia Bay and claiming the name of the Island after King George III on June 23, 1767, Captain Samuel Wallis was the first documented explorer to discover Tahiti.
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Paintings depict how welcoming the Tahitians were. -
Only one year after Bougainville arrived in Tahiti Captain Cook came and observes the transit of Venus -
December 29, 1880 was when the native Pomare Family no longer governed Tahiti becoming a French colony. Then, in 1957 the islands were reconstituted into a French Overseas Territory giving the Islands the official name French Polynesia