Tetiaroa eight of Marlon Brando's eleven children are involved in the project. Waltzing with Brando by Bernard Judge Tetiaroa Teti'aroa is an atoll in the Windward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas territorial collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. Once the vacation spot for Tahitian royalty, the motus' inside is under a 99-year lease contracted by Marlon Brando. Teti'aroa is administratively part of the commune (municipality) of 'Ārue, whose main part is in the northeastern part of Tahiti. The atoll is located north of Tahiti. The atoll has a total surface area of ; approximately of
Petty Island by Swedish explorer Peter Lindestrom in 1654, and "Treaty Island," the latter likely named after the Penn Treaty by the Manderson Family, who in 1852 bought most of the land. The island was originally bought from local chiefs by Elizabeth Kinsey, a Quaker who had fled persecution in England. William Penn owned the island after Kinsey; John Petty, its namesake, bought it in 1732. The island was a hotbed for gambling and dueling in the 18th and 19th centuries, and acquired a reputation for lawlessness and danger; adding to this danger was the large number of shipwrecks which occurred around