Apataki atoll
Racing the pass at Apataki on the National Geographic Orion.
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About Jennifer Kingsley
Jennifer Kingsley is a journalist and storyteller who specializes in the modern culture of communities around the world. She is the Field Correspondent for Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic and a National Geographic Explorer. In 2015, Jennifer founded Meet the North, a project that shares personal stories from some of the Arctic’s four million citizens. She has…
Meet the team
Teamwork was key to our time in the Marquesas. While I was mostly finding people to talk to, like Nicolas Haiti and his son Naura inside their coconut oven in Taipivai, Nuku Hiva, Eric Guth (photographer) and Matt Mastrantuono (filmmaker) were never far away. I’ll admit it: I don’t like drones. From beeping…