History
Like many of the other communes and islands of French Polynesia, the area was first settled by early Polynesians from Asia around 30,000 years ago. These people have already settled on the Marquesas Islands and then they traveled on their sea canoes to the Society Islands. They had lived off of fish and other early creatures of Tahiti. Most of the early Polynesians had built houses on the beach. Later on, they had built houses further inland because of high tide. Captain James Cook came on his expedition to chart the Pacific islands during 1770. He also came with exploror Englishman Samuel Wallis to explore. James Cook later went to Australia. Charles Darwin came to the Society Islands in the 1800s from the western pacific. Punaauia expirienced a major population boom in the late 1990s. The commune now has about 25,000 inhabitants and is the 3rd largest commune by population in French Polynesia.
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