Located at the center of the Pacific Ocean, 3700 miles (6000 km) from the United States and at more than 3100 miles (5000 km) from Australia. Marquesas are the most distant archipelago of the continent in the world! This isolation, the tormented features of these islands and the particular streams which depart from the deep and cold waters up to the surface gave to this archipelago and extraordinary biodiversity with a rare endemism.