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Hiva Oa
[ hee-vuh oh-uh ]
noun
- a volcanic island in the South Pacific, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
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Thirty-seven days at sea brought us to the eve of our landing in Hiva-oa in the Marquesas.
Fatu-hiva had been left behind and Hiva-oa, our destination, was before us, bleak and threatening.
As we approached Hiva-oa the giant height of Temetiu slowly lifted four thousand feet above the sea, swathed in blackest clouds.
Three years before the jubilee I was enabled, through a gift inspired by Joan, to buy a horse of that kind in Hiva-oa.
The shadowy silhouettes of the mountains of Hiva-oa projected themselves on the horizon.
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