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Mangareva is the
central and
largest island of the
Gambier Islands in
French Polynesia. It is
surrounded by
smaller islands:
Taravai in the southwest...
- They
cover an area of 27.8 km2 or 10.7 sq mi, and are made up of the
Mangareva Islands, a
group of high
islands remnants of a
caldera along with islets...
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Mangareva,
Mangarevan (autonym te reo magareva, IPA: [te re.o ma.ŋa.re.va]; in
French mangarévien) is a
Polynesian language spoken by
about 600 people...
- The
Mangareva kingfisher (Todiramphus gambieri), also
known as
Tuamotu kingfisher, is a
species of
kingfisher in the
family Alcedinidae,
endemic to Niau...
- The
Mangareva Statue or
Deity Figure from
Mangareva is a
wooden sculpture of a male god that was made on the
Pacific island of
Mangareva in
French Polynesia...
- The
Mangareva reed
warbler or
Astrolabe reed
warbler (Acrocephalus astrolabii) is a
presumed extinct songbird that
existed on
Mangareva in the Gambier...
- and then vanished. They
lived on
Pitcairn and
Henderson Islands, and on
Mangareva Island 540
kilometres (340 mi) to the northwest, for
about 400 years....
- of
French Polynesia, at 5.7 km2.
Taravai is
about 1.5 km
southwest of
Mangareva, the
largest island of the
whole Gambier group, and
about 300 m north...
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because of the
decline of
nearby Mangareva; thus,
Henderson was at the end of a
chain of small,
dependent colonies of
Mangareva. The
Polynesians that disappeared...
- the Pyrenees, had been
safely beached on
Mangareva. In the story,
London has the ship sail past
Mangareva and all
through the
Tuamotus before beaching...
