A landscape on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia, circa 1860. In the foreground and centre, characteristic tropical trees with striking buttress roots – known as screw pines or pandanus – dominate the scene. On the right-hand bank, a traditional Polynesian outrigger canoe (pirogue) has been hauled ashore, an authentic, high-resolution reproduction of a 19th-century original, exact date of the depiction unknown, historical
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A landscape on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia, circa 1860. In the foreground and centre, characteristic tropical trees with striking buttress roots – known as screw pines or pandanus – dominate the scene. On the right-hand bank, a traditional Polynesian outrigger canoe (pirogue) has been hauled ashore, an authentic, high-resolution reproduction of a 19th-century original, exact date of the depiction unknown, historical

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Photo12/ImageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

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BRK26J00_100

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