15 Facts About Mangareva Islands

Gambier Mangareva Islands are an archipelago in French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the Tuamotu archipelago.

Administratively, the Gambier Mangareva Islands are inside the commune of Gambier, which includes several atolls in the Tuamotu Archipelago.

Gambier Mangareva 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.

Mangareva Islands named the islands after his model, the Huguenot James Gambier, who had financially supported the expedition.

At first, King Maputeoa, the last king of Mangareva Islands, resisted, but after attributing the recovery from a serious illness to the new god, he increasingly submitted to the influence of the Christian missionaries and was baptized in 1836.

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Recruitment of labor for the large-scale projects depopulated the smaller Gambier Mangareva Islands and led according to some sources to famine, as daily food procurement was neglected.

Gambier Mangareva Islands were finally annexed on 21 February 1881 under Prince Regent Bernardo Putairi and approved by the President of France on 30 January 1882.

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.

Gambier Mangareva Islands have a typical maritime climate, tropical in character but relatively cool.

Gambier Mangareva Islands formed from a hot spot under the Pacific plate, which is moving northwestward at a rate of 12.

Local production in the Gambier Mangareva 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.

The administrative budget of the Gambier Mangareva Islands is largely subsidized with funds from France and the European Union.

The scant information that has survived on the religion and worship of the Gambier Mangareva Islands comes mainly from letters written by the missionaries to their religious superiors.

Only eight artifacts from the pre-European period from the Gambier Mangareva Islands remain in the world, including a carved deity of the type described by Beechey in the above text in the in Paris.

Mangareva Islands's cult was associated with the cultivation of turmeric.