Tahiti's Brando Resort Wants to Be an Ethical Private Island

Private tropical island. Just three words, but shorthand for the most luxurious, indulgent experience imaginable. It’s Fantasy Island, James Bond villains, and the billionaire’s retreat in the Knives Out sequel. The most quintessentially fabulous private island in the world sits 30 miles north of Tahiti, one nonstop flight (plus a short small-plane connection) from Seattle: Tetiaroa, home of the Brando.

French Polynesia is comprised of 121 islands, a handful of which thrive on tourism—Tahiti, Bora Bora—but many, many more of which are home to a rural population of indigenous Polynesians (plus 50 or so of which are uninhabited). And then there are the private islands

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