Moorea, close neighbour of Tahiti, is often called the Sister Island. Although each has its own distinctive atmosphere, they are inseparable by reasen of their geographic proximity which has given them a common history. When one is discovered so is the other, and in a Polynesian cultual and political tradition, they have had the same laws, statutes and sovereigns, although they have at times been at war with one another.

The kings or the chiefs of Tahiti who had to flee their island quite naturally came to take a refuge in Moorea where they owned lands and from where they could easily remain in contact their clans.

Just seventeen kilometers separate Moorea from Tahiti and, putting aside Raiatea and Tahaa in the Leewards Islands cohabiting in the same lagoon, they are two Polynesian islands witch are the nearest to one another.

Moorea has an overall land mass 13.400 hectares of witch a small part is inhabitable along the sea edge and in the valleys, the rest being made up of those sheer impassable massifs. Born of a volcano whose caldera melted and created the deep twin bays of Paopao and Opunohu, Moorea is a prefectly shaped like an arrow aimed towards the south.