- Tauere
Tauere Atoll or Taouere, also known as Te Putua, is a small atoll of the central Tuamotu Archipelago in
French Polynesia . It is located 85 km northwest of Hao Atoll's westernmost point.Tauere Atoll is squarish in shape. It measures 7.5 km across. The islands are located on its northern and eastern sides. Its lagoon is not connected to the ocean by a pass, which makes this small atoll quite inaccessible.
Tauere has only 5 inhabitants.
History
Tauere was sighted by Spanish navigator
Domingo de Boenechea on October 28 1772 on ship "Aguila". He called this atoll "San Simon y Judas". Hence this atoll appears in some maps as "St. Simon".Administration
Administratively Tauere belongs to the commune of
Amanu (Main village: Ikitake) which includes the atolls ofRekareka (uninhabited) andTauere .The Amanu commune is associated with the Hao commune.References
* [http://www.oceandots.com/pacific/tuamotu/tauere.htm]
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BucExpl-t1-body-d17.html Spanish voyages]
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BucViki-t1-body-d1-d14.html Population data] & [http://&travel.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/travel/18explorer.html?pagewanted=print ]
* [http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_8_1899/Volume_8,_No._4,_December_1899/Names_of_the_Paumotu_Islands,_by_J.L._Young,_p_264-268?action=null Island names]External links
* [http://www.pacific-image.pf/pages/boutic/dboutic_cdrom_sp132.html Atoll list (in French)]
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