TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO

tooämōˈtoo or Low Archipelago, coral island group (2002 pop. 14,876), South Pacific, part of French Polynesia. They comprise c.80 atolls in a 1,300-mi (2,092-km) chain, with a total land area of c.330 sq mi (850 sq km). Rangiroa is the largest island; Fakarava is the most important commercially. The islands have coconut, pandanus, and breadfruit trees and produce pearl shell and copra. The islands were visited by the Spanish in 1606, came under a French protectorate in 1844, and were annexed by France in 1881. A small part of the group is governed with the Gambier Islands; Makatea Island is under the administration of the Society Islands. The Tuamotu group was formerly called Paumotu, or Dangerous Archipelago, because hundreds of ships have been wrecked on its reefs and atolls. Some islands of the group were used for French nuclear experiments.

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books on: Tuamotu Archipelago  - 60 results

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The Tuamotu Islands and Tahiti
Book by Glynn Barratt; University of British Columbia Press, 1992
Subjects: Scientific expeditions--French Polynesia--Tahiti--History--19th century, Scientific expeditions--French Polynesia--Tuamotu Archipelago--History--19th century, Tahiti--Discovery and exploration--Russian, Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia)--Discovery and exploration--Russian
...political realities across the Tuamotu Archipelago. It is significant, for instance...for weaponry and conflict in the Tuamotu Islands is essentially the evidence...navigating among the low atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago and partly to the meagre...
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Imperialism at Bay: The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire, 1941-1945
Book by Roger Louis; Oxford University Press, 1978
Subjects: Decolonization--Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th Century, Decolonization--History, Great Britain--Colonies--History, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States, International Trusteeships, United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic History
...Society, and Tubuai Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, and the New Caledonia Colony...groups in French Polynesia, the Tuamotu Archipelago, and the Marquesas...18th of June, explained that the Tuamotu and Marquesas had been listed for...
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Geography of the Pacific
Book by Otis W. Freeman; John Wiley & Sons, 1951
Subjects: Oceania, Pacific Area
...the main export from all these islands. THE TUAMOTU ISLANDS The Tuamotu Archipelago latitude 14 to 23 south, longitude 135 to 140...of the natives who did not like it; the Low Archipelago; and the Dangerous Archipelago. Because the...
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Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism
Book by James S. Olson, Robert Shadle, Ross Marlay, William G. Ratliff, Joseph M. Rowe Jr.; Greenwood Press, 1991
Subjects: Europe--Colonies--History--Encyclopedias, Europe--History--1492---Encyclopedias, History, Modern--Encyclopedias
...Islands Star Keys See Chagos Archipelago Great Barrier Islands Okinawa...Pam Islands See Bismarck Archipelago Niguria Group See Bismarck Archipelago Pangutaran Group See Philippine...See Caroline Islands See Tuamotu Archipelago Nomuka Group...
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Melanesia and the Western Polynesian Fringe
Book by Glynn Barratt; University of British Columbia Press, 1990
Subjects: Melanesia--Discovery And Exploration--Russian, Melanesia--Relations--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--Relations--Melanesis
...for a cruise across the Low or Tuamotu Archipelago. They reached it almost four...certain record of Angatau in the Tuamotu cluster. On 13 July, he discovered...of the widely scattered Fiji archipelago. They could not know that they...
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journal articles on: Tuamotu Archipelago  - 15 results

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Archaeological Investigations in the Mangareva Islands (Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia
Journal article by Melinda S. Allen; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 45, 2006
Subjects: Archaeological Investigations in the Mangareva Islands (Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...in the Mangareva Islands (Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia. by Melinda...in the Mangareva Islands (Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia. Eric Conte...the southeastern confluence of the Tuamotu and Austral Island chains and may...linkages with other East Polynesian archipelagos (see also Weisler and Green 2001...
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No Pig Atoll: Island Biogeography and the Extirpation of a Polynesian Domesticate
Journal article by Christina M. Giovas; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 45, 2006
Subjects: Domestic animals--History, Polynesians--History, Polynesians--Research
...reasons. First, islands within an archipelago do not necessarily share the same...geology, and climate. Further, archipelago area is problematic to assess. Unlike...are definitive, the delineation of archipelagoes--which islands to include or exclude...political or cultural convenience. An archipelago is a constructed unit based on implicit...
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The Mangarevan Sequence and Dating of the Geographic Expansion into Southeast Polynesia
Journal article by Robert C. Green, Marshall I. Weisler; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Mangareva--Research, Polynesia--Research
...applicable for the entire group. The archipelago is small and changes in any portable...contemporaneous throughout the group. Intra-archipelago differences that occur during any one...within-island group, close inter-archipelago, and far inter-archipelgo--are...
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Contra Colonialism: Turning the Edge in Ford's the Hurricane
Journal article by Lorna Fitzsimmons; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2003
Subjects: Colonialism, Hurricanes, Motion picture criticism
...novel identifies as part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia (4...recognize that not the whole Samoan Archipelago was worth the loss of men and...the scattered atolls of the archipelago (3). This passage is the...
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Voyaging and Interaction in Ancient East Polynesia
Journal article by Barry V. Rolett; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Research, Polynesia--History, Polynesia--Social aspects, Seafaring life--History, Seafaring life--Social aspects, Society Islands--History, Society Islands--Social aspects
...and the alignment of the archipelago makes it easier to sail...communication with other archipelagoes (Rolett 1998:60-61...transported throughout the archipelago (Sheppard et al. 1997...Cook Islands and other archipelagoes, as is shown by the archaeological...Material Culture of the Tuamotu Archipelago. Honolulu: Pacific Anthropological...
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Rafting Fever
Magazine article by Loren Mcintyre; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 52, September 2000
Subjects: Anthropological research--Evaluation, Archaeology--Research, Easter Island--History, Heyerdahl, Thor--Research, Ocean and civilization--History, Polynesians--History, Rafts--History, Samos Island--History
...cast the raft onto a reef of Raroia atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, forty-three-hundred nautical miles from Callao...day, when the raft neared Napuka Island in the Tuamotu Archipelago, the recruits deserted, skimming ashore in an...
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Pearl Harbours
Magazine article by Paul Miles; Geographical, Vol. 72, August 2000
Subjects: Aquaculture--Analysis, French Polynesia--Laws, regulations, etc., Oyster fishing--French Polynesia, Pearls--Production management
...lipped oysters from the remote Tuamotu archipelago in the South Pacific were once...as the `Tahitian pearl, the Tuamotu atolls are hundreds of kilometres...Geographical, he visited a remote archipelago in French Polynesia to document...
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Adventures of a Lifetime
Magazine article by Jeff Hull; Plenty, June 2008
Subjects: Ecotourism, Hunting, Manycountries, National parks, Oceans, Wilderness areas
...benevolent and sometimes vengeful. SWIM WITH THE SHARKS Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia Seven of the Tuamotus 78 mid...melt away: Surrounded by a banquet of natural prey, Tuamotu sharks show precious little interest in snorkelers...
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Triumphant Clans of Easter Island
Magazine article by Joyce Gregory Wyels; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 53, January 2001
Subjects: Culture--Easter Island, Easter Island--Rites and ceremonies, Indigenous peoples--Rites and ceremonies, Rites and ceremonies--Easter Island
...adventurer had captured the public imagination by s sailing a balsa raft (Kon-Tiki) from South America to the Tuamotu Archipelago in 1947. But his hypothesis that South American Indians settled Easter Island and constructed the massive stone...
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Magical Marquesas, Polynesia's Lost Paradise
Magazine article by Harvey Hagman; World and I, Vol. 25, March 2010
Subjects: Beaches, Marquesas Islands--Description and travel
...of the 11 Marquesas, a wild, rugged archipelago featuring stunning bays, spiny volcanic...Marquesas are dramatically unlike the flat Tuamotu atolls, thin lines of palms and sand...lying islands are known as the Dangerous Archipelago because of poor charts, sudden storms...
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newspaper articles on: Tuamotu Archipelago  - 2 results

 
 
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Travel: A Gambian Christmas Gambol and a Tahiti Retirement Treat; WINTER SUN
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 15, 2008
...the Society Islands and the coral atolls of the Tuamotu archipelago. Air Tahiti Nui is also offering return fares...Manihi Pearl Beach Resorts in in the lesser known Tuamotu archipelago - or Keikahanui Nuku Hiva Pearl Lodge or Hanakee...
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Rhythms of Pacific; Welcoming Coconut Ship Journeys into Lush Beauty of Marquesas
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 19, 2004
...Papeete, Tahiti; stop in the flat Tuamotu islands; and journey through the...any continent, the most remote archipelago on Earth. The Marquesans called...cargo on Takapoto, one of the 76 Tuamotu atolls, we ride whaleboats over...


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encyclopedia articles on: Tuamotu Archipelago  - 10 results

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Tuamotu Archipelago
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO tooamo too or Low Archipelago, coral island group (2002 pop. 14,876), South Pacific...Island is under the administration of the Society Islands . The Tuamotu group was formerly called Paumotu, or Dangerous Archipelago...
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Dangerous Archipelago
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DANGEROUS ARCHIPELAGO see Tuamotu Archipelago . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Low Archipelago
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOW ARCHIPELAGO see Tuamotu Archipelago . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Queiros, Pedro Fernandes De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and after the death of Mendana, 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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French Polynesia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Tahiti . The territory comprises five main groups: the Society Islands ; Marquesas Islands ; Austral Islands ; Tuamotu Archipelago ; and Gambier Islands . The small, uninhabited atoll of Clipperton Island , c.3,400 mi (5,470 km) NE of...
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