Tahiti
About Tahiti
Tahiti is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. It is a tropical island located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean. Tahiti is composed of two roughly circular land masses joined by an isthmus: Tahiti Nui and Tahiti Iti. Both are the eroded remnants of now-extinct shield volcanoes. The terrain of Tahiti is mostly high and mountainous, with the beaches and coral reefs that surround the island supporting tourism and fishing industries.
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They landed on Tahiti and within days he was picking up bits of the language and he was sleeping with them, sometimes actually copulating with them and sometimes just sleeping next to them.
from No Such Thing As Unbroadcastable Material, 2015-01-01 at 00:09:27 · read transcript
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That's really clever. Did you know that one of his expeditions, he had his ostensible mission and then his secret mission? This is his 1768 expedition when he was officially going to Tahiti. He was supposed to observe the transit of Venus across the face of the sun and do a bunch of other scientific stuff. The British government told him, do this, but here's a sea. envelope and when you've done that you're allowed to open this sealed envelope and that contains a secret information for what you're actually supposed to do it's like taskmaster it was such an extreme long episode of taskmaster and yeah he opened the envelope when he'd done his tahiti business and it said please find the great southern continent everyone was convinced there was a big continent in down in the south pole and they were right obviously but he tried to find it and failed they knew yeah they knew something was there and it was all based on sort of of like sightings of little islands and maybe ice flows.
No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea, 2018-12-14 · listen
That contains a secret information for what you're actually supposed to do. It's like Taskmaster. It was such an extreme long episode of Taskmaster. Yeah, he opened the envelope when he'd done his Tahiti business. It said, please find the Great Southern Continent. Everyone was convinced there was a big continent down in the South Pole. They were right, obviously, but he tried to find it and failed.
247: No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea, 2018-12-14 · listen
If you did miss that first scene of the film or the film, you should know that this is the film Moana and Moana sort of demigod sidekick in the film is Maui, who was a real God, very important God in, or demigod in Pacific mythology. He exists all over the Pacific islands. Like in Hawaii, he's very important. Tahiti, Samoa, the Maui people, they all have slightly different versions of him. There is a version where he's a real trickster character. He's a prankster.
303: No Such Thing As Suckling's Column, 2020-01-10 · listen
A bone last year, and they just say, keep it still for a month and it's fine and that's why things like this can work and it's why in the 18th and 19th centuries in fact so from when cook got to Tahiti uh he met Tahiti islanders and he realized that they fixed skull fractures with coconut so if you had a skull fracture they'd cut out the damaged bit of your skull and they just slot a bit of coconut shell in there.
No Such Thing As Welsh Guinness, 2019-05-10 · listen
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