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Paahi

islet in French Polynesia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ15256604 ↗
Source-derived summary

Motu Paahi is a private island in the Bora Bora Islands Group, within the Society Islands of French Polynesia. It is located between Vananui and Tane. The island has a somewhat rocky shoreline and a view of nearby mountains.

Administration

The island is part of Bora Bora Commune. Its current population includes the staff operating the hotel.

Tourism

The island is the site of the Blue Heaven Island Resort.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Paahi” is islet in French Polynesia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Paahi, islet and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 69-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Paahi, islet and French is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “islet in French Polynesia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15256604. Authority coordinates are -16.451, -151.768. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paahi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.