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 | | The island also has an endemic subspecies of the Tuamotu Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus atypha niauensis), which is reportedly common. | | | However, Collar and Andrew noted that 12 of the sites where the species was found in the 1920s had not been visited since then, and a further 24 atolls in the Tuamotus, some apparently suitable, had never been surveyed for birds. | | | The Tahiti Sandpiper is known only from three specimens collected in 1773 and 1777 on Tahiti and Moorea in the Society Islands. |
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http://www.wetlands.org/inventory&/OceaniaDir/Doc_chapters/Fr_Polynesia.doc
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| | Queiros, Pedro Fernandes de on Encyclopedia.com |
| | 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). | | | The expedition traveled to the Marquesas Islands and Solomon Islands, and after the death of Mendaña, Queiros continued in command. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/Q/Queiros.asp
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| | Oceania Project: French Polynesia |
| | The high islands of the Society and Austral groups, which have volcanic peaks, are heavily eroded and frequently marked by deep valleys. | | | Some islands of present-day French Polynesia are believed to have been populated as early as two thousand years ago. | | | 12,374 (6%) in the Tuamotu and Gambier Islands |
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http://www.eirelink.com/classweb/frpolyn.htm
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| | Tuamotus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Archaeological findings lead to the conclusion that the western Tuamotus were settled from the Society Islands by c. | | | The Tuamotus were first "discovered" for Europeans by the navigator Ferdinand Magellan, during his circumglobal voyage in 1521. | | | The Tuamotus made headlines around the world in 1947, when archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl, sailing from South America reached Raroia on his raft, Kon-Tiki. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuamotu_Islands
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| | National Geographic Adventure Mag.: Excerpts--August 2003 |
| | Still, these remote islands were among the last places on the planet to bear the weight of humans. | | | Journey to Water World: Kayaking French Polynesia's Tuamotu Archipelago | | | Known as tipairua or pahi, these expedition canoes were crewed by 4 to 20 men who used the stars, currents, and tides to navigate vast stretches of ocean. |
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0308/story.html
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| | Tuamotu Archipelago -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Included are some 130 islands, divided among five archipelagoes, scattered across the Pacific between latitudes 7° and 27° S and longitudes 134° and 155° W. The archipelagoes are the Society Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Gambier Islands, the Marquesas Islands, and the... | | | French Îles Tuamotu, also called Paumotu, island group of French Polynesia, central South Pacific Ocean. | | | Pacific Ocean; composed of Marquesas Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, Gambier Islands, Society Islands (including Tahiti), and Tubuai Islands; total area 1,544 sq mi (4,000 sq km); cap. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9073654
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| | This bird is now only found in some remote atolls of the Tuamotu archipelago. | | | Society Islands Ground-dove, Gallicolumba erythroptera, Amaho ou U'uairao (Tahiti), Tutururu (Tuamotu), Itikoe (Mangareva). | | | The Marquesas Reed-warbler is very common and is found in almost all the islands of the Marquesas archipelago. |
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http://www.manu.pf/E_Terrestres.html
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| | National Geographic Adventure Mag.: Tuamotus Photo Gallery |
| | Most people daydream about escaping to an idyllic island to avoid the workday grind. | | | For photographer Peter McBride, a journey to paradise was simply part of the job when he was asked to join writer Jon Bowermaster on assignment in the Tuamotu Archipelago (read excerpt "Journey to Water World" in the August 2003 issue). | | | The 78-island archipelago is composed of atolls—rings of coral and sandy islets called motus that are strung around a central lagoon. |
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0308/photo_index.html
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| | Nordhavn |
| | Mountains seemingly floating on water reaching into the sky, lushly vegetated and acting like far off bright green beacons to all those who had been at sea for weeks. | | | Just 502 nautical miles southwest of the Marquises, we found the Tuamotu Archipelago, also part of French Polynesia but a much different country. | | | I was also able to email for a replacement part and it should get to Tahiti in about a week. |
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http://www.nordhavn.com/rendezvous/arcturus_july.htm
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| | Tahiti Cruises - Paul Gauguin, Haumana, Archipels and Aranui cruises |
| | Discovering Tahiti by land and sea offers the best of both worlds. | | | Aranui: 16-day cruises on this working freighter accommodating 80 passengers on their voyages to the Marquesas, Tuamotus, and Society Islands. | | | M/S Paul Gauguin: 7-night voyages on this 320 passenger cruise ship sailing the Society Islands. |
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http://www.come2tahiti.com/cruises.htm
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| | Adventure Writer on Kayaking "Dangerous Archipelago" |
| | Shark "Photo of the Year" Is E-Mail Hoax | | | During the first weeks here we were five, in five kayaks, exploring some of the most remote islands in the world, the Tuamotu chain of French Polynesia. | | | Editor's note: In September 2002, writer and adventurer Jon Bowermaster embarked on a two-month sea kayaking expedition through French Polynesia's Tuamotu Archipelago, a barely populated 900-mile-long (1,450-kilometer-long) string of atolls, coral reefs, and desert islands. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1216_021216_bowermaster.html
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| | Tuamotu Archipelago |
| | This archipelago is made up of the largest group of coral atolls in the world. | | | Snapper fish are found in abundance throughout the tropics, such as this one in the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia. | | | The atolls stretch 2,100 km/1,300 mi north and east of the Society Islands. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0013796.html
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| | Tuamotu Sandpiper - definition of Tuamotu Sandpiper in Encyclopedia |
| | The Tuamotu Sandpiper, Prosobonia cancellata, is an endangered member of the large wader family Scolopacidae, that is endemic to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia. | | | It historically had a wider range, but now survives on a smaller number of rat-free islands, and possibly moves between islands, although it is not otherwise thought to migrate. | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Tuamotu_Sandpiper
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| | Pearl Beach Resorts - Diving in the Tuamotu Archipelago |
| | The Tuamotu Archipelago is the oldest group of Tahitian Islands geologically speaking. | | | An atoll is called a "low island" because it is formed by an exposed ring of coral. | | | Originally a chain of volcanic islands, the warm waters attracted the coral, which formed reefs around the islands. |
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http://www.letahaa.com/common/tuamotu-diving.asp?origin=manihi
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| | Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Tuamotu tropical moist forests (OC0115) |
| | The Tuamotus and Gambier Islands are largely atolls, while the Pitcairn group consists of raised limestone islands and high islands. | | | This ecoregion includes the widely dispersed islands of the Tuamoto archipelago and Pitcairn group, stretching from Manihi and Rangiroa to Pitcairn, Henderson, and Ducie Islands. | | | The Tuamotus are the smallest area in the world with an endemic sandpiper, the Tuamotu sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata), which is now restricted to uninhabited, rat-free islands. |
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http://worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/oc/oc0115_full.html
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| | Presidency of French Polynesia - The Tuamotu Archipelago |
| | This is the biggest of the five archipelagoes of French Polynesia. | | | Far from bustling cities and towns, the Tuamotu islands and atolls offer their dreamlike lifestyles that appeal to the Robinson Crusoe adventurism that lies within most people. | | | It’s a place where people can learn to live in another world. |
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http://www.presidence.pf/index.php?843
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| | Pacific Ocean - Tuamotu Archipelago |
| | In the south of the archipelago are the (7) South Group: Fangataufa, Marutea Sud, Morane, Mururoa, Tematangi, Tureia and Vanavana; and to the east the (8) Acteon Group : Tenararo, Vahanga, Tenarunga, and Matureivavao. | | | The Tuamotu atolls exhibit a wide variety of forms, ranging from tiny circular-shaped atolls such as those of Niau and Anuanurunga to the large elongated structures of atolls such as Mururoa and Rangiroa. | | | In total there are 74 atolls, three low coral islands, one raised coral island and one large island-barrier-reef complex. |
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http://oceandots.com/pacific/tuamotu
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| | Education Afloat |
| | Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian anthropologist landed at a Tuamotu Island in 1947. | | | From the Marquesas islands, Loquax will head for Tahiti in the Society Islands. | | | The Tuamotu Archipelago is inhabited with all kinds of marine life that can be found near to the coral reefs. |
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http://www.sightsail.co.uk/education/map/maptuamotu.html
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| | French Polynesia, Tuamotu Islands |
| | Rangiroa, with its 42 mile long by 16 mile wide turquoise lagoon, is the largest atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago and the second largest in the world. | | | on the Tuamotu Islands (French Polynesia), go to: | | | Tuamotu is an archipelago comprising 78 low islands or coral atolls scattered over several hundred miles of the eastern Pacific. |
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http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/fr_polynesia/about_destin/tuamotu_isl.html
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| | ISS002 Earth Sciences Results Briefing, 14 February, 2002 |
| | The Tuamotu Archipelago was extensively photographed with numerous images that surpass the spatial resolution of any images acquired from orbit in the past (from human spaceflight or satellites). | | | Of about 85 islands in the archipelago, approximately 36 were photographed using the Kodak/400mm/2x extender combination with low clouds. | | | The use of astronaut photography in the recently published "World Atlas of Coral Reefs" and the recent acceptance of an article on using astronaut photography to identify coral pinnacles in lagoons (in International Journal of Remote Sensing) promises to further increase the visibility and scientific importance of reef photography from the Space Station. |
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http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/debrief/ISS002/reefs1.htm
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| | Polynesia |
| | The Society Archipelago is itself divided up into 2 parts: the "Windward Islands", consisting of 4 high islands including Tahiti, itself divided into 2 islands, Tahiti Nui the large one, and Tahiti Iti, the small one, Moorea and Tetiaora; the "Leeward Islands", that include Huahine, Bora Bora, Raiatea/Tahaa and Maupiti. | | | They are divided into five groups: the Society Islands, the Tuamotus, the Marquesas, the Australs and the Gambiers. | | | The Tuamotu Archipelago to the east of Society archipelago is the largest of all with a surface area of 600 sq. |
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http://www.meravigliaviaggi.it/eng/polynesia/polynesia.htm
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| | Easter Island Detailed Itinerary;Adventure Travel:African safari, Kenya safari,Tanzania safari, wildlife safari, Peru ... |
| | Tahiti Bora-Bora • Tuamotu Archipelago • Pitcairn Island &; | | | We set sail in the optimum tradewind season of October to visit the vast archipelago of French Polynesia, the enticing and historic Pitcairn Island Group, and fabled Easter Island. | | | Learn of the intriguing history of Polynesian voyagers, adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, the HMS Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn, and the inextricable mysteries of Easter Island, which archaeologists have tried to unravel for decades. |
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http://www.naturexp.com/detailed_itinerary/Easter_Island_DI.htm
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| | MAB France - Biosphere Reserve Taiaro Atoll / Tuamotu Archipelago. |
| | This new group is to be called the Tuamotu Biosphere Reserve. | | | Taiaro is an atoll, that is to say a ring-shaped island built up on an ancient volcano that has sunk into the ocean under the action of the drift of the Pacific Ocean floor. | | | Created in 1977, the biosphere reserve of Taiaro is situated in the Tuamotu archipelago 540 km north east of Tahiti. |
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http://www.mab-france.org/eng/reserves/R_taiaro.html
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| | Rangiroa Cruises |
| | Tuamotu's natives, the "Paumotu," are these in Polynesia who keep the most sea oriented | | | Rangiroa is the largest of a chain of 78 atolls that comprise the Tuamotu, the world's most extensive atoll archipelago. | | | The land mass of the Tuamotus is insignificant compared with what exists below the surface of the water. |
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http://www.come2tahiti.com/rangiroa_cruises.htm
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| | Tuamotu - definition of Tuamotu in Encyclopedia |
| | At the 2002 census, the Tuamotus (including the Gambier Islands) had a population of 15,862 inhabitants. | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page | | | The Tuamotus are the largest chain of atolls in the world. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Tuamotu
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| | Felicity Log: Tuamotu Archipelago |
| | The Tuamotu Archipelago, historically called the dangerous archipelago, is a group of over 70 low lying atolls that runs for several hundred miles in a northwest - southeast direction between the Marquesas and Society Islands and is another island group within French Polynesia. | | | The passes in the Tuamotus are largely well marked as many have weekly to monthly visits from the large supply ships. | | | The wind had almost completely died and we had heard on the nets that a number of boats were motoring or floating out there. |
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http://www.svfelicity.com/journal/tuamotus.htm
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| | French Polynesia map and information page by World Atlas |
| | The Tuamotu archipelago (in contrast to the other groups) includes only low-lying coral atolls (78 in all), and of these, only a handful have passable inlets into their central lagoons. | | | Of these, the Society archipelago is certainly the most famous. | | | Spread over a vast area about the size of Europe, the widely scattered (118 islands and atolls) of French Polynesia - part of an overseas territory of France - are divided into 5 groups: the Austral, Gambier, Marquesas, Society and Tuamotu archipelagos. |
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http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/oceania/pf.htm
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| | Dangerous Archipelago on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Black Archipelago: politics and civic life in the Jim Crow city. | | | Every affix is an archipelago: Tagalog Ka- as a Semantic Partial. | | | Pleistocene colonisation of the Bismarck Archipelago: new evidence from West New Britain. |
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| | French Polynesia - Atlapedia Online |
| | (1.) The Society Islands which include Tahiti and Bora-Bora, (2.) the Tuamotu Archipelago, (3.) the Gambier Archipelago, (4.) the Marquesas Islands and (5.) the Austral Islands. | | | Most of the islands are of volcanic origin, mountainous and ringed by coral reefs while the Tuamotu and Gambier island groups are low lying coral atolls. | | | LOCATION AND GEOGRAPHY: French Polynesia consists of five scattered archipelagos. |
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http://www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/frenpoly.htm
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| | Atoll of Fakarava - Discover the lagoon, the beach and the lush vegetation - Tetamanu Village |
| | This protected atoll is part of with its six close islands, of which initially Taiaro, of a reserve of biosphere classified by UNESCO. | | | It testifies to the richnesses of the ecosystem of these atolls: particularly rare fauna and flora, with the kingfisher hunter, the palm trees of Tuamotu and, in the lagoons, of the shellfish specimens such as the squilles or cigalles of sea. | | | All these atolls are formed by reef opened to the sea thanks to the passes and one part is emerged (hoa) with high tide. |
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http://www.tetamanuvillage.pf/us/fakarava.htm
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| | Air Tahiti Magazine on-board magazine of the airplane company |
| | Rangiroa or "Rairoa" (meaning "vast sky"), an atoll at the end of the earth, some 360 kms north-east of Tahiti, is the main island of the Tuamotu archipelago. | | | You are in Rangiroa, the world's largest atoll, you are in the Tuamotu... | | | Finally, Rangiroa can also be a stop on your journey to the Marquesas archipelago. |
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http://www.airtahitimagazine.com/us_version/tahiti_mag.asp?num=31
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| | OSS Iles Gambier |
| | Iles Gambier is seemingly an anomaly in the Tuamotu Archipelago, in which 95% of the islands are atolls. | | | This extraordinary island-barrier reef complex is in the southeasternmost end of the Tuamotus, some 120 kilometers from the mature Groupe Acteon. | | | Clearly on a subsiding platform, the reef and lagoon indicate such rapid sinking that shallow lagoonal beaches and lagoonal coral knolls are precluded, except in the very northwest corner. |
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| | Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia current local time |
| | A comprehensive list of other locations in addition to Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia is also available which you can view current time by country name or by city name. | | | Convert a specific time in Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia to your local time | | | The current time in Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia is |
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| | Tuamotu |
| | The guide books mention that the Tuamotus are suppose to have fabulous snorkeling. | | | It is the Tuamotus' most populous (2,700 people) atoll and the largest in Polynesia. | | | There are 500 miles between Tahuata in the Marquesas Islands and Ahe in the Tuamotu Archipelago. |
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http://members.aol.com/JerodiSys/paklog15.htm
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| | Tuamotu |
| | Anchoring is possible in Mururao although a military base still exists and you are likely to be asked to leave. | | | The Tuamotu is known as the dangerous archipelago for good reason. | | | Very turbulent water exists in the core of the current, and is easily identified. |
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http://www.geocities.com/divaahoy2001/tuamotu/tuamotu.html
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| | Complete Guide to the Tuamotu Islands - Tahiti Sun Travel |
| | As with our other island sites, TST has attempted to organize it's Tuamotu Island categories of activities, information, and travel and tourism into an easy and friendly website browsing experience. | | | This page has all the pertinent information and options. | | | French Polynesia's remote Tuamotu Islands number 78 in total, making them the largest of the Tahiti-Polynesian archipelagoes. |
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http://www.manihi.com
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| | Find in a Library: Material culture of the Tuamotu Archipelago |
| | Subjects: Material culture -- French Polynesia -- Tuamotu Archipelago. | | | Iles Tuamotu et Gambier (French Polynesia) -- Civilization. | | | Find in a Library: Material culture of the Tuamotu Archipelago |
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http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/c98279e78fb9d507.html
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| | The Tuamotu Archipelago |
| | We were underway for three days on the 550 mile passage from Nuku Hiva to Manihi in the Tuamotus. | | | They consist of hundreds of miles of low lying coral atolls and reefs that are much more difficult to see than the towering volcanic mountains of the Marquesas or Society Islands. | | | To continue the adventure to Moorea and the Society Islands, click here! |
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http://www.qsl.net/n5xx/tuamotus.htm
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| | Polynesian Cultural Center - Tuamotu Archipelago |
| | In 1844 the islands came under French protection and were annexed in 1880 as a Tahitian dependency. | | | Tuamotu was also visited by Portuguese explorer, Pedro Fernández de Quirós, in 1606. |
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http://www.polynesia.com/aloha/maps/islands/tuamotu.shtml
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| | BSSA, Volume 86:1a |
| | These latter 12 events were carefully included in this study to broaden the data set. | | | These empirical methods clearly discriminate presumed nuclear tests on the islands of Mururoa and Fangataufa. | | | In addition, two presumed nuclear events from Nevada, four from the Tuamotu Archipelago, and six from eastern Kazakhstan were recorded on temporary stations close to the GERESS array during the site survey (1988 to 1989). |
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http://www.seismosoc.org/publications/BSSA_html/bssa_86-1a/94211.htm
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| | Tuamotu Archipelago - Fangatau |
| | Fangatau consists of bean-shaped reef that encloses a narrow and deep lagoon that contains prolific coral growth; there are no open passages connecting the lagoon waters with those of the open sea (in the large size image an extremely narrow channel linking the main settlement to the open ocean waters is just visible). | | | A small atoll of the Centre East group, located within the northestern regions of the archipelago and lying to the west of the Takume-Raroia pair of atolls. |
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| | Tuamotu Archipelago in South Pacific as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft |
| | Tuamotu Archipelago in the South Pacific, looking southeast, as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during its 141st revolution of the earth. | | | Tuamotu Archipelago in South Pacific as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft | | | Photographed from an altitude of 110 nautical miles, at ground elapsed time of 224 hours and 18 minutes. |
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