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Nuku Hiva
Melville's Typee valley in the Marquesas.
- Population
- 3,120 (2017)
- Melville deserts
- 1842
Then
- 1813
Captain David Porter claims the island for the US and builds Madisonville.
- 1842
Herman Melville jumps ship and later writes Typee.
Now
Taiohae is the Marquesas' administrative center. A fiber cable arrived in 2018.