Tahuata is the smallest of the inhabited Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is located 4 km...
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The Tahuata rail (Gallirallus roletti) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the Rallidae, or rail family. It was described in 2007 from subfossil...
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and Ua Huka). The other is the southern group, consisting of Fatu Uku, Tahuata, Moho Tani (Motane), Terihi, Fatu Hiva, and Motu Nao (also called Thomasset...
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Mangareva Niuē-Fekai Nuku Hiva Raiatea Rapa Iti Rarotonga Rimatara Rurutu Tahuata Tahiti Commonwealth realms Barbados Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Fiji The Gambia...
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is the Marquesan name of the 4 km (2.5 mi.) wide channel that separates Tahuata from Hiva Oa, in the southern Marquesas Islands. The French name for the...
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Mangareva Niuē-Fekai Nuku Hiva Raiatea Rapa Iti Rarotonga Rimatara Rurutu Tahuata Tahiti Commonwealth realms Barbados Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Fiji The Gambia...
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Mangareva Niuē-Fekai Nuku Hiva Raiatea Rapa Iti Rarotonga Rimatara Rurutu Tahuata Tahiti Commonwealth realms Barbados Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Fiji The Gambia...
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Vaitahu (redirect from Vaitahu, Tahuata)
Vaitahu is the name of a bay and valley in western Tahuata. It is the location of the most important village on the island. Spanish explorer Álvaro de...
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Mangareva Niuē-Fekai Nuku Hiva Raiatea Rapa Iti Rarotonga Rimatara Rurutu Tahuata Tahiti Commonwealth realms Barbados Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Fiji The Gambia...
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Pou, and Ua Huka), and South Marquesan in the southern islands (Hiva Oa, Tahuata, and Fatu Hiva). In Ua Huka, which was almost entirely depopulated in the...
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expulsion in 1836 caused France to send a gunboat in 1838. In 1842, Tahiti and Tahuata were declared a French protectorate, to allow Catholic missionaries to...
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Mangareva Niuē-Fekai Nuku Hiva Raiatea Rapa Iti Rarotonga Rimatara Rurutu Tahuata Tahiti Commonwealth realms Barbados Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Fiji The Gambia...
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Atoll) Motu One (Bellinghausen) Marquesas Fatu Hiva Hiva Oa Euba Nuku Hiva Tahuata Ua Huka Pen Ua Pou Tuamotus Rangiroa Fakarava Moruroa Fangataufa Gambier...
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Pou Southern Marquesas Fatu Hiva Fatu Huku Hiva Oa Moho Tani Motu Nao Tahuata Terihi Society Islands (Îles de la Société) Leeward Islands (Îles Sous-le-Vent)...
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Mangareva Niuē-Fekai Nuku Hiva Raiatea Rapa Iti Rarotonga Rimatara Rurutu Tahuata Tahiti Commonwealth realms Barbados Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Fiji The Gambia...
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Molopu or Motane) is an uninhabited island southeast of Hiva Oa and east of Tahuata in the southern Marquesas Islands. It has an area of 15 km2. Much of the...
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expulsion in 1836 caused France to send a gunboat in 1838. In 1842, Tahiti and Tahuata were declared a French protectorate, to allow Catholic missionaries to...
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Hood's Island Hiva ʻOa (including Hanakee) Hivaoa Hiva Hoa Hiavaoa Dominica Tahuata Taahuata Tuhuata Santa Christina Moho Tani Motane Mohotane San Pedro Fatu...
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the Marquesas Islands Hiva Oa and Tahuata. It was originally described from 600-year-old subfossil remains from Tahuata and Hiva Oa. It may have survived...
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gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae. It was endemic to Hiva Oa and Tahuata in the Marquesas Islands and went extinct in the 1990s or 2000s. Coote...
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Kingdom of Rimatara (till 1901, French protectorate since 1888) Kingdom of Tahuata (till 1880, French protectorate since 1842) Kingdom of Rapa Iti (till 1881...
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Hōkūleʻa (section Nuku Hiva – Ua Pou – Ua Huka – Tahuata – Fatu Hiva – Hiva Oa – Mangareva, Gambier Islands: 2 August 1999 to 29 August 1999)
Hōkūleʻa is a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Launched on 8 March 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society...
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Pterophylla marquesana grows on the islands of Fatu Hiva, Hiva Oa, Nuku Hiva, Tahuata, Ua Huka, and Ua Pou. It grows at mid- to high-elevations, typically above...
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anchorages on the island. Hiva Oa is separated from the nearby island of Tahuata to its south by a 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide channel called Ha'ava or the...
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described in 1966, after a single tree with a few seedlings was discovered on Tahuata, an island in the Marquesas group of French Polynesia that had been severely...
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of South Carolina, is established. The Polynesian islands of Tahiti and Tahuata are declared a protectorate of France. The New Zealand seat of government...
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pendiculentus Aguiguan rail, Gallirallus pisonii Mangaia rail, Gallirallus ripleyi Tahuata rail, Gallirallus roletti Tubuai rail, Gallirallus steadmani Huahine rail...
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Mangaia rail, Gallirallus ripleyi (Mangaia, Cook Islands) Tahuata rail, Gallirallus roletti (Tahuata, Marquesas) Huahine rail, Gallirallus storrsolsoni (Huahine...
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Sources: [1] Marquesas Islands : Fatu Hiva Hiva Oa Nuku Hiva (chef-lieu) Tahuata Ua Huka Ua Pou Windward Islands (Society Islands) : Arue Faa‘a Hitia’a...
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Mangareva Niuē-Fekai Nuku Hiva Raiatea Rapa Iti Rarotonga Rimatara Rurutu Tahuata Tahiti Commonwealth realms Barbados Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Fiji The Gambia...
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