Afareaitu
Āfareaitu is an associated commune on the island of Moorea, in French Polynesia. It is part of the commune Moorea-Maiao Moorea-Maiao is a commune of French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The commune is in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands.Populated places in the Society Islands Mo'orea {{FrenchPolynesia-geo-stub ...
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Mo'orea
Moorea ( or ; Tahitian: ), also spelled Moorea, is a volcanic island in French Polynesia. It is one of the Windward Islands, a group that is part of the Society Islands, northwest of Tahiti. The name comes from the Tahitian word , meaning "yellow lizard": = lizard ; (from ) = yellow. An older name for the island is ', sometimes spelled or (among other spellings that were used by early visitors before Tahitian spelling was standardized). Early Western colonists and voyagers also referred to Moorea as ''York Island'' or ''Santo Domingo''. History Prehistory According to recent archaeological evidence, the Society Islands were probably settled from Samoa and Tonga around 200 CE.Patrick V. Kirch: ''On the Road of the Wind - An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact'', University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London 2000 Nine tribal principalities emerged in the enclosed valleys, which in turn were subdivided into individual cla ...
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