Possible Clues:

• Gauguin's 1890s home
• Pacific island, capital Papeete
• Paul Gauguin's island
• Island that I confused with another island
• Note about a great success on the island
• After this turns on ahead to it, one is pacific
• The army reached one island
• Island where Gauguin painted
• Windward island
• There's no miss in it, up around the island