Referenced In

Travels
by Michael Crichton, Baber, E. C. Baber

"I was in Tahiti for Christmas with my family—my brother and sister, and assorted husbands, wives, girlfriends, friends."

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"His grandfather inveighed against the French with such volume and acidity that they shipped him on a one-way berth to Tahiti, where, after supposedly befriending a syphilitic Gauguin, he succumbed to either dengue fever or an incurable strain of virulent homesickness."