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Kayaking French Polynesia's Tuamotu Islands Explorer Jon Bowermaster's dispatches from the deep South (Pacific). Magellan knew them as the Dangerous Archipelago, a chain laced with pristine, ship-eating reefs. Today called Tuamotu—Tahitian for "distant islands"—this 78-island stretch of French Polynesia lies halfway between Australia and South America. For two months last fall, explorer Jon Bowermaster led a team through this barely populated 900-mile-long (1,450-kilometer-long) archipelago. Navigating by sun and stars, the team had what he called a "Robinson Crusoe existence," including spearing and hooking their dinners; the reefs here pulse with a virtual rainbow of fish and sharks some 400 species strong. Along the way, they shot through storm-tossed waters, kayaked amid migrating whales, and made contact with some of the world's most isolated cultures. —Ted Chamberlain
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