Mathilde in the Lagoon
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Mathilde in the LagoonThe World > Les Iles de l'Océan Pacifique > polynésie > Polynésie Française > Moorea |
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My love & my wife Mathilde, in the lagoon of Moorea
The marae has a surrounding wall of basalt 40 feet long and 17 meters wide, stone blocks together. Ov...
Moorea is a high island in French Polynesia, part of the Society Islands, 17 km (roughly 9mi) northwest of Tahiti.
Moorea means "yellow lizard" in Tahitian. An older name for the island is Aimeho, sometimes spelled Aimeo or Eimeo (among other spellings misunderstood by early visitors with no knowledge of the language). Early Western colonists and voyagers also referred to Moorea as York Island.
