On 10 February 1606 Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, serving the Spanish Crown in an expedition to Terra Australis, was perhaps the first European to set eyes on the island of Tahiti.
On 18 June 1767 lieutenant Samuel Wallis, who was circumnavigating the globe, was the first European to have visited Tahiti.
Captain James Cook was commissioned by the Royal Society to observe the transit of Venus across the sun, a phenomenon that would be visible from Tahiti on 3 June 1769.
On 26 October 1788, HMS Bounty, under the command of Captain William Bligh, landed in Tahiti. The crew remained in Tahiti for about five months.
Three weeks after leaving Tahiti, on 28 April 1789, the crew mutinied on the initiative of Fletcher Christian.
The mutineers seized the ship and set the captain and most of those members of the crew who remained loyal to him adrift in a ship’s boat. A group of mutineers then went back to settle in Tahiti.
By 1890, French artist Paul Gauguin had conceived the project of making Tahiti his next artistic destination.
Gauguin set sail for Tahiti on 1 April 1891, promising to return a rich man. He spent the first three months in Papeete and many of his finest paintings date from this time.
In August 1893, Gauguin returned to France, only to set out for Tahiti again on 28 June 1895. He became very weak and was in great pain using morphine.
He died suddenly on the morning of 8 May 1903 at the age of 55.
Marlon Brando was known for his tumultuous personal life and his large number of wives, girlfriends and children. He was the father to sixteen known children, three of whom were adopted.
He claimed numerous romances, but did not discuss his marriages, his wives, or his children in his autobiography.
Brando earned a reputation as a ‘Bad boy’ for his public outbursts and his behavior during the filming of Mutiny on the Bounty in Tahiti.
He fell in Love with Tahiti and its people, bought a 12-island atoll, Tetiaroa to build his home and natural village there without despoiling the environment.
I am following my personal dream to live on each continent. My father used to have an iluminated globe at home and I was fascinated by the deep blue of the ocean and the funny shaped islands, the continents, so I decided to live on each.
Starting with my sailing lessons in Natal, Brazil some five years ago and my experience with my sailing boat one year ago, I am going towards my project Tahiti 2020.
Light, Passion, Authentiticity, Into the Wildness, With Power, Pleasure, For Adventure, With Desire, Become a Divinity, Always in the Powerful, Present Moment & Love, To Eternity and Strive For Simplicity. When the purpose of your Life is to Create … Dreams.