Huahine
is a part of the
Society Islands of
French Polynesia. Considered as a whole, it is, after
Tahiti, the second largest of the Society Islands, and the largest of the
Leeward Islands. (If it is considered as two distinct islands, this distinction goes to
Raiatea, to the southwest.) Huahine is actually two islands, Huahine Nui (Big Huahine) and Huahine Iti (Little Huahine), formerly joined only by a
sandspit at
low tide, the two islands are now connected by a small bridge.
