Hiva Oa

[ hee-vuh oh-uh ]

/ ˈhi və ˈoʊ ə /

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

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Here with some misgivings I prepared to spend my second night in Hiva-oa.
White Shadows in the South Seas|Frederick O'Brien
Fatu-hiva had been left behind and Hiva-oa, our destination, was before us, bleak and threatening.
White Shadows in the South Seas|Frederick O'Brien
Three years before the jubilee I was enabled, through a gift inspired by Joan, to buy a horse of that kind in Hiva-oa.
White Shadows in the South Seas|Frederick O'Brien
He sailed with us from Tai-o-hae to Hiva-oa, a dead beat of ninety miles against a heavy sea.
In the South Seas|Robert Louis Stevenson

He was then chief of Tahuata, and the power in that island, in Hiva-oa and Fatu-hiva.
White Shadows in the South Seas|Frederick O'Brien