Hiva Oa

American  

[hee-vuh oh-uh] / ˈhi və ˈoʊ ə /

noun

1. a volcanic island in the South Pacific, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

Or which nation Hiva Oa, one of the main islands in the Marquesas Islands, belongs to?

From New York Times • May 11, 2015

There he bumped into the legend of Gauguin, who spent his last years in Tahiti and in the nearby Marquesas and whose grave on Hiva Oa Island surveys the Pacific.

From Time Magazine Archive