What Do You Know About The Land Of Tuamotu Archipelago?

Tuamotu Archipelago is a group of about 80 islands of French Polynesia. The Tuamotu Archipelago is encompassed with 75 coral reefs, one raised coral atoll named Makatea and numerous coral reefs which are roughly scattered northwest-southeast as a double chain for over 1,450 kilometers. From the 16th to 17th centuries Europeans arrived on the islands.

The French absorbed the islands in 1844. They took over them in 1880 as a Tahitian dependency. Tuamotu Archipelago is now formed with the Gambier Islands as an administrative partition of French Polynesia. Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki mission was ended on Raroia, one of the Tuamotu Archipelago's in the year of 1947. Nowadays France is using some of the uninhabited coral reefs of the Tuamotu Archipelago for nuclear testing. According to the census report of 1996 the population of the Tuamotu Archipelago was 14,283.