Bora Bora Honeymoon Guide

History

The island was inhabited by Polynesian settlers around the 3rd century. The first European sighting was made by Jakob Roggeveen in 1722.

James Cook sighted the island on 29 July 1769, with the help of a Tahitian navigator, Tupaia.

The London Missionary Society arrived in 1820 and founded a Protestant church in 1890.

Bora Bora was an independent kingdom until 1888, when the French annexed the island as a colony and forced its last queen, Teriimaevarua III, to abdicate.