Possible Clues:

• Island in Windward group of the Society Islands
• Pairs leading tackle high tides somewhere in Pacific
• Locale for some Gauguin art
• French-speaking island (6)
• ''Bounty'' landfall
• Volunteers reach one Pacific island
• Fighters successfully targeted island, one in the Pacific
• A strike in this odd island
• Captain Cook landfall of April 1769
• Polynesian island where Gauguin lived