Îles Maria or simply Maria, also known as Hull Island[1], is a small coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean. An atoll (pronounced /ˈætʌl/ is an island of Coral that encircles a Lagoon partially or completely The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions Its original name is Nororotu. The nearest land is Rimatara situated 205 km to the ESE. Rimatara is the westernmost of the Austral Islands in French Polynesia.
The atoll consists of four islets (îles), with a dense atoll forest[2] and a very shallow lagoon, supporting numerous bird species. [3] The island is uninhabited now, but at one time was the site of a penal colony. A penal colony is a Settlement used to detain Prisoners and generally use them for Penal labour in an economically underdeveloped part of the state's [4] Copra is occasionally harvested at the island. Copra is the dried meat or kernel of the Coconut. The name copra is derived from the Malayalam word kopra for dried coconut [3]
The Îles Maria should not be confused with Maria Atoll in the Gambier Islands, also in French Polynesia, which is sometimes differentiated with the name "Maria Est" (East). Maria Atoll is a small atoll of the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. The Gambier Islands (Îles Gambier or fr ''Archipel des Gambier'' are a small group of islands in French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the Tuamotu [5] There is also another island once known as Hull Island in the Phoenix Islands, which is now known as Orona. The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight Atolls and two submerged Coral Reefs, lying in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Gilbert Islands Orona atoll also known as Hull Island, is one of the Phoenix Islands in the Republic of Kiribati.
History
This atoll is named for the whaler Maria, who sighted the island in 1824. For other uses see Whalers. A whaler is a specialized kind of ship designed for Whaling, the catching and/or processing of [3], which was captained by George Washington Gardner, a Nantucket sea captain (1778-1838). The Gardner family were a group of whalers operating out of Nantucket Massachusetts from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries Captain is the traditional customary title given to the person in charge in command of a Ship at sea [6]
Administration
The atoll Îles Maria is administratively part of Rimatara commune (municipality) in the Tubuai (Austral Islands) division of French Polynesia. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Tubuai is the name of a group of Islands and also the name of its main island being part of the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, in the Pacific Ocean French Polynesia ( French: Polynésie française, Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is a French Overseas collectivity in the
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