Hiva Oa

[ hee-vuh oh-uh ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Thirty-seven days at sea brought us to the eve of our landing in Hiva-oa in the Marquesas.

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Fatu-hiva had been left behind and Hiva-oa, our destination, was before us, bleak and threatening.

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As we approached Hiva-oa the giant height of Temetiu slowly lifted four thousand feet above the sea, swathed in blackest clouds.

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Three years before the jubilee I was enabled, through a gift inspired by Joan, to buy a horse of that kind in Hiva-oa.

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The shadowy silhouettes of the mountains of Hiva-oa projected themselves on the horizon.

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