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Tuamotu Archipelago
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tuamotu Archipelago or Low Archipelago, coral island group (2002 pop. 14,876...Makatea Island is under the administration of the Society Islands . The Tuamotu group was formerly called Paumotu, or Dangerous Archipelago, because hundreds...
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Raroia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...ETHNONYMS: Dangerous Islands, Paumotu, Poumot, Tuamotu Raroia is an atoll in the Tuamotu-Gambier Archipelago in Polynesia. The archipelago...1920s. In 1987, the number of people claiming Tuamotu identity was estimated at 14,400, with about...
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French Pacific Dependencies
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
...discovered by Spaniards in 1595 and annexed by France in 1842. The Tuamotu Islands, about 480 km (300 mi) s and sw of the Marquesas...and shark meat. Phosphate deposits, mined on Makatea in the Tuamotu Islands, were exhausted by 1966. The Pacific Nuclear Test...
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French Polynesia
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies
...Society Islands (which include Tahiti and Bora-Bora); the Tuamotu Archipelago; the Gambier Archipelago; the Marquesas Islands...low-lying, white-sand lagoon coral-reef atolls of the Tuamotu and Gam-bier groups. One of French Polynesia's most serious...
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Mangareva
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Mangareva Mangareva, also known as the Gambier Islands, consists of four small volcanic islands located southeast of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia at 22 ° S and 128 ° W. The islands have a land area of about 29 square kilometers...
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Wilkes Expedition
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...By the time the squadron returned in 1842, it had traversed 85,000 miles of ocean; surveyed 280 islands, including the Tuamotu, Society, Samoan, and Fiji islands; charted 800 miles of rivers and coastline in Oregon Territory and 1,500 miles of...
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Pacific Ocean
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...by the established route to Mexico and back to Callao. In 1605 Quiros again sailed westward from Peru and came across the Tuamotu Islands, but the hope of finding the legendary great southern continent lured the two ships farther westward. His second...
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Pedro Fernandes de Queiros
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and after the death of Mendaña, Queiros continued in command. On a later expedition he visited (1606) the Tuamotu Archipelago and the New Hebrides, but almost certainly not the Society Islands (as is sometimes claimed).
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Low Archipelago
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Low Archipelago see Tuamotu Archipelago .
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Thor Heyerdahl
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...first settlers of Polynesia were of South American origin, in 1947 he and five companions made the crossing from Peru to the Tuamotu Archipelago on a primitive log raft. This voyage is described in the international bestseller Kon Tiki (tr. 1950). In...
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