CD Cover for 'Rapa Iti.' NPR's Melissa Block talks with sound recordist Pascal Nabet Meyer about the recordings he made on the Island of Rapa Iti in the South Pacific. The recordings are on a CD by ...

And so it is with islands themselves – no island is just an island, some lonely isolated outpost immune to influences from the outside world. In fact, perhaps unexpectedly, islands are epicentres for ...

Rapa Iti, not to be confused with Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, is a hook-shaped volcanic island in the remote Austral archipelago. Lying astride the 27th parallel south, it has the distinction of ...

The coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world, the ground in Oymyakon is permanently frozen. Sitting close to the North Pole, its average temperature in January is minus 50C. Home to about ...

Journeying to the South Pacific island of Rapa Iti, the ancient home of the Tahitian Choir. The 126-member choir sings haunting melodies, reflecting centuries of tribal life in one of the most remote ...

Though called the Tahitian Choir, the group of 120 men and women base themselves on the island of Rapa Iti -- a thousand miles to the south of Tahiti. This video features performances of "himene," or ...