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  Destination: Gambier Islands
The Gambier islands consist of 14 small mountainous islands that are located southeast of Tahiti.
The Gambier Islands are home to more than one hundred stone buildings built from that time, including churches, presbyteries, convents, schools, weaving workshops, bakers' ovens and watch towers.
Bora Bora is 240kms north west of Tahiti in the Society Islands, as is Huahine Island, which comprises two islands joined by a narrow isthmus and enclosed by a protective necklace of coral.
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  Encyclopedia: Gambier Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Gambier Islands (Îles Gambier in French) are a small group of islands in French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the Tuamotu archipelago.
They are generally considered a separate island group from Tuamotu both because their culture and language (Mangarevan) are much more closely related to those of the Marquesas Islands, and because, while the Tuamotus are comprised of several chains of coral atolls, the Gambiers, especially the primary island, Mangareva, are of volcanic origin.
Akamaru is the 3rd largest island in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia, at approximately 2.
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 Gambier Islands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Gambier Islands (Îles Gambier in (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French) are a small group of islands in (A French overseas possession in the South Pacific) French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the (additional info and facts about Tuamotu) Tuamotu archipelago.
The Gambiers are surrounded by a coral reef, which is broken by only three passages to the open sea.
The highest point in the Gambiers is Mt. Duff, on Mangareva, rising to 482 m (1600 ft) along the island's south coast.
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 Gambier Islands - French Polynesia - Mark Moxon, Travel Writer
The Gambier lagoon comprises four main islands (Mangareva, Taravai, Akamaru and Aukena) and ten smaller islands or motus (including Agakauitai, and the coral motu of Totegegie, home to the airport).
The Gambiers are in the remotest part of French Polynesia, some 1643km from Tahiti; if you head east from the Gambiers you will come across Pitcairn Island (owned by the British, at the continuing behest of the inhabitants), Easter Island (Chilean), and then after a long, long gap there's South America.
The islands are full of lush vegetation, with fruit trees everywhere that provide more fruit than the population can eat: the result is a paradise where you can walk around picking fruit whenever you want it, or even plucking one of the plentiful fishes or lobsters from the sea.
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 French Polynesia Time Zones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Marquesas Islands is one of the circumscriptions (administrative divisions) of French Polynesia.
Gambier Islands is part of the circumscription of Tuamotu and Gambier Islands.
On a good map, it will be apparent which islands belong to Gambier Islands and which don't, although there may be a few borderline cases.
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 Gambier Islands - Encyclopedia.com
Gambier Islands, volcanic islands (6 sq mi/15.5 sq km; 2002 pop.
It comprises a cluster of four inhabited islands known as Mangareva and many uninhabited atolls.
The islands have copra and coffee plantations and pearl fisheries.
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 french polynesia map and information page
It includes the stunning islands of Bora Bora, Moorea and Tahiti - and like the enchanting Marquesas in the northeast - most are lush, dark green specs of land, volcanic in origin, with jagged-edged peaks jutting boldly into the sky.
The Austral and Gambier islands in the south are lighted populated, as most are still uninhabited.
The ancient subsistence economy of the larger islands has been replaced by the modern economics of tourism revenues, military employment, pearl farming, commercial fishing and a growing selection of small manufacturing jobs.
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 Gambier Islands - The islands at the end of the world
Gambier Islands - The islands at the end of the world
Lying over 1,600 km South east of Tahiti, the Gambier archipelago comprises 14 small rugged islands, the largest and most populated of which is Mangareva.
This group of islands was the cradle of Catholicism in Polynesia in the 18th century, and has over a hundred stone edifices, all built at that time: churches, convents, teaching establishments, weaving workshops, bread ovens and watch towers.
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 Gambier Islands (Mangareva) - French Polynesia - Mark Moxon, Travel Writer
All through the long haul to the Gambiers it had never felt as if we were anywhere particularly foreign: the sea is the sea wherever you are, and it doesn't have particular cultural or geographical between the various seas and oceans (apart from the weather).
It all started on the morning of Thursday 15th May; we'd decided to get some fruit, not a tricky procedure given the number of communal fruit trees around, but we figured it was only polite to ask the people in the nearby houses if would be all right to pick their fruit.
The mangoes in the Pacific islands are from another world, though, with a flavour that makes Melbournian mangoes taste like old boots, and I soon became quite an expert at spotting mango trees and hunting for mangoes that had fallen down onto the forest floor.
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 Gambier Islands, Gambier Island Group - French Polynesia
Gambier Islands: More than 1,600 km southeast of Tahiti, the Gambier group consists of 14 small mountainous islands, the largest and most populated of which is Mangareva.
The cradle of Polynesian Catholicism in the nineteenth century, these islands hold more than one hundred stone buildings built from that time, including churches, presbyteries, convents, schools, weaving workshops, bakers' ovens and watch towers.
Not many travellers make it out to the remote Gambier islands, in the southeastern pocket of French Polynesia, and tourism has made virtually no impact here.
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 Tahiti Accommodation & Travel Information, South Pacific Islands - Jasons Travel Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Papeete, on the island of Tahiti, is the capital.
This collection of 76 islands is the largest group of coral atolls in the world, and renowned for its pearl farms, rich scubadiving sites and clear lagoons.
Tahiti and her islands are a rich fishing ground, and outside the coral reefs, the waters teem with game fish including marlin, tuna, bonito and mahi mahi.
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 AllRefer.com - Gambier Islands (Pacific Islands Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Gambier Islands (Pacific Islands Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Gambier Islands[gam´bir] Pronunciation Key, volcanic islands (6 sq mi/15.5 sq km; 2002 pop.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Gambier Islands @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Gambier Islands @ HighBeam Research
GAMBIER ISLANDS [Gambier Islands], volcanic islands (6 sq mi/15.5 sq km; 2002 pop.
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 Gambier Islands
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