Gambier Islands are an archipelago in French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the Tuamotu archipelago.
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15 Facts About Gambier Islands
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Administratively, the Gambier Islands are inside the commune of Gambier, which includes several atolls in the Tuamotu Archipelago.
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Gambier Islands were discovered for Europe in 1797 by James Wilson, captain of the ship Duff of the London Missionary Society, which had left Great Britain to carry out missionary work in Tahiti, Tonga and the Marquesas.
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Gambier Islands named the islands after his model, the Huguenot James Gambier, who had financially supported the expedition.
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Recruitment of labor for the large-scale projects depopulated the smaller Gambier Islands and led according to some sources to famine, as daily food procurement was neglected.
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Gambier Islands were finally annexed on 21 February 1881 under Prince Regent Bernardo Putairi and approved by the President of France on 30 January 1882.
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Gambier Islands include the Mangareva Islands, which have an enclosing coral reef which is broken by only three passages to the open sea, and Temoe atoll, which is located 45 km south-east of the Mangareva Islands.
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Gambier Islands have a typical maritime climate, tropical in character but relatively cool.
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Gambier Islands formed from a hot spot under the Pacific plate, which is moving northwestward at a rate of 12.
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In terms of tourism, the Gambier Islands archipelago is one of the least visited in French Polynesia.
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Local production in the Gambier Islands is limited to a few productive sectors, such as subsistence farming and fishing, and most consumer goods are transported by a cargo service operated by two schooners, which rotate every three weeks.
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The administrative budget of the Gambier Islands is largely subsidized with funds from France and the European Union.
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The scant information that has survived on the religion and worship of the Gambier Islands comes mainly from letters written by the missionaries to their religious superiors.
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Only eight artifacts from the pre-European period from the Gambier Islands remain in the world, including a carved deity of the type described by Beechey in the above text in the in Paris.
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Gambier Islands's cult was associated with the cultivation of turmeric.
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