Ari'i-Otare Terii-maeva-rua III
Pomare (28 May 1871 – 19 November 1932) was the last
Queen
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of the
Tahiti
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an island of
Bora Bora
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from 1873 to 1895.
The second daughter of Prince
Tamatoa-a-tu (Tamatoa V),
King
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of
Raiātea and
Tahaa
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and Princess Moe-a-Mai, Arii-Otare became the Queen of
Bora Bora
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on the death of her aunt Princess
Teriimaevarua II, Queen of Bora Bora. She married Prince
Teri'i Hinoi-a-tua Pomare, chief of Hitia'a in Bora Bora on 9 January 1884 and was divorced in 1887. Ari'i-'Otare produced no children of her own. She adopted her two younger step daughters; Princess
Rehu-rehu Tuheiava and Princess
Itia Tuheiava. She also adopted and raised her biological nephew Moeterauri "Bimbo" Tetua who was born September 14, 1916.
Bora Bora was
annexed
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by the French on 19 March 1888, but royal power remained in effect until her abdication on 21 September 1895. She remained the head of the
royal house
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of Bora Bora until her death.
Ancestry
See also
*
French Polynesia
)Territorial motto: ( en, "Great Tahiti of the Golden Haze")
, anthem =
, song_type = Regional anthem
, song = " Ia Ora 'O Tahiti Nui"
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*
Annexation of the Leeward Islands
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*
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*Zaman Shah, deposed 1801.
*Mahmud Shah Durrani, deposed 1803, reinstated 1809, redeposed 1818.
* Shoja Shah, deposed 1809, reinstated 1839
*Dost Mohammad Khan, depo ...
References
1871 births
1932 deaths
French Polynesian royalty
Queens regnant
19th-century women rulers
19th-century monarchs in Oceania
People from Bora Bora
Pōmare dynasty
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