Michael Lothian


Painting Fatu Hiva

Posted about 1 year ago

FATU HIVA is found within the chain of islands called today The Marquesas!

Te Henua Enana/Te fenua Enata, “the land of men” – most people know these chain of islands as the Marquesas (Îles Marquises), named such, after Spanish explorer A’lvaro de Mendana de Neira who reached them in 1595.

Naming them such after the Viceroy of Peru – “Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Canete”.

The L…

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