Pacific
This body art is an important part of Polynesian and Melanesian culture.
What is tattoo?
This Spanish explorer visited Guadeloupe in November 1493, when it was known to Caribs as Karukera.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
License plates for these islands begin with SPM.
What are Saint-Pierre et Miquelon?
This island is the largest of the Breton Islands and second only to Corsica off mainland France.
What is Belle Ile en Mer
In 1841, the discovery of hand-pollination of these flowers enabled La Réunion to become the leading producer of this flavorful bean.
What is vanilla?
The "Mama shingos" on Mayotte will explain each step in the process to create their famous Bandrélé variety of this daily essential, which is totally natural and has a unique taste.
What is salt?
Americans built the structure for this museum in Nouméa in 1943 to store equipment.
What is the World War II Museum?
This narrow channel, called a river, separates the islands of Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe.
What is the Salée River?
This group of islands got their name from missionaries who went here to escape an outbreak of plague in French Guiana.
What are the Salvation Islands (Iles du Salut)?
This island was occupied in succession by the Greeks, Romans, the Vandals, the Lombards, and the Arabs before an Italian bishop was granted rule over it in the 11th century.
What is Corsica?
More than two-fifths of the population in this overseas département of France are under age 15, and its major cash crops include vanilla, ylang ylang, coffee, and coconuts.
What is Mayotte?
The language on this island is related to that of Samoa.
What is Futuna?
Marigot is the capital of this small island split between France and the Netherlands.
What is Saint Martin?
During WWII, forces under this leader of the Free French seized control of St. Pierre et Miquelon from Vichy France.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
This island fortress's two most famous inhabitants never stepped foot there--one was a fictional character and the other was housed in four other prisons. Abbé Faria instructs Edmond Dantès here.
What is the Château d'If?
Along with Mayotte, it is one of the two Eurozone areas in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is La Réunion?
This is the capital of Wallis and Futuna.
What is Matâ'utu?
In May 1902, this volcano violently erupted, killing roughly 30,000 people and destroying the port of Saint-Pierre.
What is Mount Pélée?
This popular Basque ball game is played during the Basque Festival in St. Pierre et Miquelon.
What is pelota?
The Iles du Frioul are a part of this French National Park.
What are the Calanques?
*********The masked and red-footed varieties of this bird species, whose name might cause middle schoolers to snicker, coexist with flamingos and Arctic terns in the Scattered Islands.
What is the booby?
This dry volcanic island group is one of the most remote in the world, lying between Tahiti and Mexico and numbering fewer than 10,000 inhabitants.
What are the Marquesas islands?
This is what the locals in Guadeloupe call the dry season.
What is Creole Lent?
This island was the Reclusion, where the inmates from Devil's Island were sent for solitary confinement as punishment for escape attempts and other offences.
What is Saint-Joseph?
In 1755, this Corsican nationalist leader established a republic that lasted 14 years until the French invasion of the island in 1768.
Who is Pasquale Paoli?
This small group of islands named by Hippolyte Caltaux in 1879 served as a hideout for pirates attempting to evade the French navy.
What are the Glorioso Islands?