Culture of Papeete

Papeete is also mentioned in the song "A Warm Summer Night" by Chic.

Papeete is also mentioned in the Bruce Brown's groundbreaking surf film The Endless Summer as one of the surf sites visited by the two long boarders chasing the summer season around the world. The beach at Papeete is dubbed "Ins and outs" because the steep shore causes waves to break in both directions—toward the beach and out to sea.

Papeete is where Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Ebb Tide"