Possible Clues:

• Pacific paradise
• Destination of the Bounty in 'Mutiny on the Bounty'
• 'Omoo' island
• I am grateful to encounter island - this one?
• Society's most important member?
• Island to which Gauguin went after leaving Europe
• Something very palpable in odd parts of this island
• This oddly includes a success for an island
• Soldiers' bash on island, one in South Pacific
• Setting for Melville's 'Omoo'