Surfing Guinness Book of World Records recognized a wave ride by Garrett McNamara at Nazaré, Portugal as the largest wave ever surfed. For hundreds of years, surfing was a central part of ancient Polynesian culture. Surfing may have first been observed by British explorers at Tahiti in 1767. Samuel Wallis and the crew members of who were the first Britons to visit the island in June of that year. Another candidate is the botanist Joseph Banks being part of the first voyage of James Cook on , who arrived on Tahiti on 10 April 1769. Lieutenant James King was the first
Air Tahiti Air Tahiti Air Tahiti is a French airline company which operates in French Polynesia, France. Its principal base is Faa'a International Airport. Air Tahiti covers a network of 47 islands in French Polynesia and Cook Islands. Society Islands Tuamotu Archipelago East Tuamotu-Gambier archipelago Marquesas archipelago Austral archipelago Marquesas archipelago Tuamotu archipelago As of September 2018, the Air Tahiti fleet consists of: The story of Air Tahiti is closely linked to the history of aviation in Polynesia. Far away from continents, Polynesia was late in developing air routes. It was only during the Second World War that aviation took off in