/mah-tah er-ay-uh/ n. The ancient name for the island
of Huahine, in the Society Islands, where Danika and Sten spent
the first week of their honeymoon. Mata'irea translates as "joyful breeze"
or "golden wind." In Tahitian the literal translations for the subparts
of the word are: mata'i = wind or breeze, and rea =
saffron or yellow.