JigsawFrench Polynesia Puzzles
French Polynesia is a group of 118 islands and atolls in the South Pacific, spread across an area of ocean about as large as Western Europe. Our French Polynesia puzzles show Bora Bora and its neighbours: turquoise lagoons, white beaches, coconut palms and thatched bungalows standing on stilts above the water.
Coconut Palms on Huahine
Hammock between Palm Trees, French Polynesia
Bora Bora Lagoon from the Air
Lifebuoy on a Palm, Bora Bora
Leaning Palms on a Bora Bora Beach
Palm Trees above the Lagoon, Bora Bora
Palm-Fringed Beach, Bora Bora
A Lagoon Resort from Above, French Polynesia
Bungalows on a Green Shore, French Polynesia
Polynesian Outrigger Boat, Bora Bora
Overwater Bungalows in the Bora Bora Lagoon
Walkway to Mount Otemanu, Bora Bora
Beach Chairs Facing Mount Otemanu, Bora Bora
About French Polynesia
The islands form five archipelagos, and the best known are the Society Islands, home to Tahiti, Moorea, Huahine and Bora Bora. They are an overseas collectivity of France, so French is spoken alongside Tahitian, and the capital, Papeete, lies on Tahiti. The painter Paul Gauguin lived and worked here at the end of the 19th century, and the word "tattoo" comes from the Tahitian word tatau.
Bora Bora is an old volcano that is slowly sinking, leaving the twin peaks of Mount Otemanu and Mount Pahia in the middle of a lagoon enclosed by a reef and a ring of small islets called motus. The first overwater bungalows were built in French Polynesia in the 1960s, on the island of Raiatea, and the idea later spread to resorts across the tropics.