Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Motu Nao is the Marquesan language Marquesan name for a small rock island in the southeastern Marquesas Islands , approximately convert 22 km mi abbr on northeast of Fatu Hiva . The French language French name for the island is Rocher Thomasset , which in English is Thomasset Rock . At low tide, the top of the island rises to 4 m 13 ft. above sea level, and is sometimes almost awash at high tide. Marquesas Islands Coord 10 22 12 S 138 24 00 W display title Category Islands of the Marquesas Islands Category Uninhabited islands of French Polynesia FrenchPolynesia geo stub bg ca Motu Nao de Motu Nao es Motu Nao fr Motu Nao gl Motu Nao it Motu Nao nl Motu Nao pl Motu Nao ru fi Motu Nao ... more details
Taxobox name Fatuhiva Monarch status CR trend down status system iucn3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis bird Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Monarchidae genus Pomarea species P. whitneyi binomial Pomarea whitneyi binomial authority Murphy & Mathews, 1928 The Fatuhiva Monarch Pomarea whitneyi is a large flycatcher. It is endemic to Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas Islands , French Polynesia . It is critically endangered, with an estimated population of less than 1,000. The binomial name commemorates the US philanthropist Harry Payne Whitney . References Biological Conservation 108 2002 161 174 IUCN2006 assessors BirdLife International year 2004 id 17970 title Pomarea whitneyi downloaded 11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is critically endangered External links http www.birdlife.org datazone species index.html?action SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid 6080&m 0 BirdLife Species Factsheet Category Monarchidae Category Fauna of the Marquesas Islands Monarchidae stub fi Fatuhivanmonarkki sv Fatuhivamonark ... more details
The Marquesas Islands are the island group farthest from any continent in the world, lying between 400 and 600 miles 600 and 1,000 km south of the equator and approximately 1,000 miles 1,600 km northeast of Tahiti . They fall naturally into two geographical divisions the northern group, consisting of E ao , Hatutu Hatutaa , Motu One Marquesas Islands Motu One , and the islands centered around the large island of Nuku Hiva Motu Iti Marquesas Islands Motu Iti Hatu Iti , Ua Pou , Motu Oa and Ua Huka , and the southern group of Fatu Uku , Tahuata , Moho Tani Motane , Terihi , Fatu Hiva and Motu Nao Thomasset Rock , clustered around the main island of Hiva Oa . With a combined land area of 1,274 km 492 sq. miles , the Marquesas are among the largest island groups of French Polynesia , Nuku Hiva being the second largest island in the entire territory, after Tahiti. With the exception of Motu One, all the islands of the Marquesas are of volcanic origin. In contrast to the common perception of lush tropical vegetation that goes culturally hand in hand with the appellation Polynesia , the Marquesas are remarkably dry islands. Although the islands lie within the tropics, they are the first major break in the prevailing easterly winds spawned from the extraordinarily dry from an atmospheric perspective Humboldt Current . The annual rainfall is generally around convert 1270 mm in 0 , but this average is misleading because of very high variability. In La Ni a years, rainfall can decline to less than convert 500 mm in 0 , whilst in El Ni o years when the ocean warms it can reach convert 2800 mm in 0 . Unlike the rest of French Polynesia, most rain falls during the cooler months, with May to July usually the wettest and November the driest. Because of their exceptionally variable climate, the islands are subject to extreme drought and flood conditions. Only those which reach highest into the clouds generally, above about 2,500 feet above sea level have reliable precipitation. This ... more details
in western Nuku Hiva Eastern Ua Pu Western Ua Pu The southern dialects fall roughly into three groups Pepane Eastern Hiva Oa Hiva Oa and Ua Huka FatuHiva Nuku Western Hiva Oa and Tahuata North Marquesan ... IPA r Of this small number of consonants, IPA is found only in eastern Nuku Hiva Tai Pi Marquesan ... groups Tai Pi, spoken in the eastern third of Nuku Hiva , and according to some linguists, a separate ... more details
specimens were collected on soutrhern FatuHiva at a smilar altitude the species thus seems to live ... USNM 100840 was collected on March 1, 1968, on Mount Feani , Hiva Oa , at an altitude of about 750 ... more details
known ecologically. The holotype was collected on March 22, 1968, on Mount Teoaiua , FatuHiva ... Expedition . The species is apparently widespread at least in the southern part of FatuHiva, but has been found on Nuku Hiva as well, and probably occurs from near sea level to altitudes of at least ... more details
from Hiva, it lay towards the rising sun. Sourced from http www.rongorongo.org leyendas 008.htm ref The name Hiva is found in the Marquesas Islands , in the names of several islands Nuku Hiva , Hiva Oa and FatuHiva although in FatuHiva the hiva element may be a different word, iva . It is also ... appears as Hiva . According to Thor Heyerdahl Hiva allegedly lay east of the island. Sebastian Englert ... King Hotu Matu a will go and live blockquote Englert puts forward that Hiva lies to the West of the island ... more details
The following is a list of cities in French Polynesia By division Marquesas Islands FatuHivaHiva Oa Nuku Hiva chef lieu Tahuata Ua Huka Ua Pou Windward Islands Society Islands Arue Faa a Faa a Hitia a O Te Ra Hitia a O Te Ra Mahina Moorea Maiao Paea Papara Papeete chef lieu Pirae Punaauia Taiarapu Est Taiarapu Ouest Teva I Uta Tuamotus Gambier Islands Gambier Anaa Arutua Fakarava Fangatau Gambier Hao Hikueru Makemo Manihi Napuka Nukutavake Puka Puka Puka Puka Rangiroa Reao Takaroa Tatakoto Tureia Austral Islands Raivavae Rapa Iti Rimatara Rurutu Tubuai chef lieu Leeward Islands Society Islands Bora Bora Huahine Maupiti Tahaa Taputapuatea Tumaraa Uturoa chef lieu small Sources http www.insee.fr fr nom def met nomenclatures cog doc outremer.asp polynesie INSEE Code officiel g ographique 2005 small Largest Cities border 0 style border 1px solid 999 background color FFFFFF align center bgcolor cccccc Name Population br 2002 Area br km Densiy br people km align right 1 align left Faa a 28 339 34.2 831 align right bgcolor EFEFEF 2 align left Papeete 25 521 19 1 343 align right 3 align left Punaauia 23 762 76 313 align right bgcolor EFEFEF 4 align left Pirae 14 850 35 424 align right 5 align left Moorea Maiao 14 693 134 110 align right bgcolor EFEFEF 6 align left Mahina 13 609 52 264 align right 7 align left Paea 12 327 65 190 align right bgcolor EFEFEF 8 align left Taiarapu Est 10 596 216 49 align right 9 align left Papara 9 659 93 104 align right bgcolor EFEFEF 10 align left Arue 9 319 16 582 align right small Sources http www.polynesie francaise.gouv.fr small Oceania in topic List of cities in Category Lists of cities by country French Polynesia Category Populated places in French Polynesia Category French Polynesia related lists Cities id Daftar kota di Polinesia Perancis ... more details
Lead missing date December 2010 Prehistory The first recorded settlers of the Marquesas were Polynesians , who, from arch ological evidence, are believed to have arrived before 100 AD . Ethnological and linguistic evidence suggests that they likely arrived from the region of Tonga and Samoa . European exploration The islands were given their name by the Spain Spanish explorer lvaro de Menda a de Neira who reached them on 21 July 1595. He named them after his patron, Garc a Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Ca ete , who was Viceroy of Peru at the time. Menda a visited first Fatu Hiva and then Tahuata before continuing on to the Solomon Islands . The United States American navigator Capt. Joseph Ingraham first visited the northern Marquesas while commanding the brig Hope ship Hope in 1791, giving them the name Washington Islands . In 1813, Commodore USN Commodore David Porter naval officer David Porter claimed Nuku Hiva for the United States, but the United States Congress never ratified that claim, and in 1842, France , following a successful military operation on behalf of a native chief named Iotete who claimed to be king of the whole of the island of Tahuata, took possession of the whole group, establishing a settlement abandoned in 1859 on Nuku Hiva. French control over the group was reestablished in 1870, and later incorporated into the territory of French Polynesia . Of all the major island groups of the Pacific , the Marquesas Islands suffered the greatest population decline as a result of diseases brought by European explorers, reducing the estimated sixteenth century population of over 100,000 inhabitants, to about 20,000 by the middle of the nineteenth century, and to just over 2,000 by the beginning of the 1900s. During the course of the twentieth century, the population increased to about 8,500 by 2002, not including the Marquesan community residing on Tahiti. The whaleship whaleship Essex Essex was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale near the Marquesas in ... more details
sweetorum , known only from FatuHiva . ref name nov References references ref name nov Lorence ... Nuku Hiva , Ua Huka , Ua Pou , Hiva Oa and Tahuata . ref name nov Ecology This species is rare and localized ... decline inferred. ref name nov The suitable habitat for Dryopteris macropholis on Nuku Hiva ca. 340 km2 , Ua Huka ca. 83 km2 , Ua Pou ca. 105 km2 , Hiva Oa ca. 315 km2 , and Tahuata ca. 61 km2 ... more details
Infobox Airport name Atuona Airport nativename Hiva Oa Airport image IATA HIX AUQ ICAO NTMN type Public owner operator city served Atuona , Hiva Oa location Marquesas Islands , French Polynesia elevation f 1481 elevation m 451 coordinates coord 09 46 07 S 139 00 47 W region PF type airport website metric rwy y r1 number 02 20 r1 length m 1215 r1 length f 3986 r1 surface Paved footnotes Atuona Airport or Hiva Oa Airport airport codes HIX NTMN is an airport located located convert 4.5 km northeast of Atuona on the island of Hiva Oa , in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia . ref AIP FR NTMN PAC P name Hiva Oa Atuona ref ref GCM HIX HIX NTMN Atuona Airport Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia ref ref ASN HIX HIX NTMN Hiva Oa Airport ref The ICAO location identifier is also given as AUQ . ref GCM AUQ AUQ Atuona Airport Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia ref ref ASN AUQ AUQ Atuona Airport ref Airlines and destinations Air Tahiti Nuku Hiva, Tahiti, Ua Huka, Ua Pou References references Category Airports in French Polynesia Oceania airport stub FrenchPolynesia geo stub id Lapangan Udara Atuona pl Port lotniczy Atuona ... more details
sorting schemes. By subdivision Marquesas Islands Commune of FatuHiva Commune of Hiva Oa Commune of Nuku Hiva capital Commune of Tahuata Commune of Ua Huka Commune of Ua Pou Windward Islands ... text align right background efefef 14 style text align left FatuHiva 84 style text align right ... efefef 38 style text align left FatuHiva 584 84 7 style text align right 39 style text align left ... Fangatau commune Fangatau 98717 style text align right background efefef style text align left FatuHiva 98718 style text align right style text align left Gambier commune Gambier 98719 style text ... align left Hitiaa O Te Ra 98722 style text align right style text align left Hiva Oa 98723 style text ... left Nuku Hiva 98731 style text align right background efefef style text align left Nukutavake 98732 ... text align center background ccc Name Area km style text align right 1 style text align left Nuku Hiva 387 style text align right background efefef 2 style text align left Hiva Oa 316 style text align ... style text align right 21 style text align left Nuku Hiva 2 652 387 7 style text align right background ... Tubuai commune Tubuai 2 171 45 48 style text align right 25 style text align left Hiva Oa 2 015 ... more details
Infobox French constituency name 1st constituency of French Polynesia image member type Deputy member Michel Buillard party colour UMP member party Miscellaneous Right department French Polynesia Overseas departments and territories of France overseas collectivity canton commune France communes of Bora Bora , Faaa , Huahine , Maupiti , Moorea Maiao , Paea , Papeete , Punaauia , Raivavae , Rapa , Rimatara , Rurutu , Tahaa , Taputapuatea , Tubuai , Tumaraa et Uturoa ref http www.assemblee nationale.fr 13 qui circonscriptions 987.asp Circonscriptions lectorales de la Polyn sie fran aise et divisions administratives associ es , French National Assembly ref census date 2007 pop 149,377 The 1st constituency of French Polynesia is a French legislative Constituency France constituency in French Polynesia . Following the 2010 Redistricting of French Legislative Constituencies 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies , which will come into application for the French legislative election, 2012 June 2012 legislative election , the boundaries of French Polynesia s two constituencies will be redrawn so as to create a French Polynesia s 3rd constituency third constituency in the collectivity. From that point on, the 1st constituency will consist in the communes of Anaa , Arue , Arutua , Fakarava , Fangatau , Fatu Hiva , Gambier , Hao , Hikueru , Hiva Oa , Makemo , Manihi , Moorea Maiao , Napuka , Nuku Hiva , Nukutavake , Papeete , Pirae , Pukapuka , Rangiroa , Reao , Tahuata , Takaroa , Tatakoto , Tureia , Ua Huka , and Ua Pou . ref Per order n 2009 935, 29 July 2009. ref Deputies Alexandre L ontieff , who held the seat from 1988 to 1993, was simultaneously President of French Polynesia from 1987 to 1991. ref http en.tahitipresse.pf 2009 03 former tahiti president alexandre lontieff died at age 60 Former Tahiti President Alexandre L ontieff died at age 60 , Tahitipresse , March 3, 2009 ref class wikitable colspan 2 Election Member Party style background color Indep ... more details
NOTOC Italic title Taxobox regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a classis Insect a ordo Lepidoptera subordo Glossata infraordo Heteroneura enable when article is longer zoodivisio Ditrysia superfamilia Gelechioidea familia Gelechiidae subfamilia Pexicopiinae genus Chelophoba genus authority Meyrick in Caradja & Meyrick, 1935 type species Chelophoba aganactes type species authority Meyrick in Caradja & Meyrick, 1935 subdivision ranks Species subdivision 2, but see text synonyms Cheiophoba small lapsus small Chelophoba is a small and enigmatic genus of the twirler moth family biology family Gelechiidae . Among these, it is one of many lineages whose precise relationships are still obscure, though they are presumed to belong to the subfamily Pexicopiinae . In their forewings, the second vein is separate from the third like in some other twirler moths. It is by the overall venation pattern of the wing that Chelophoba moths can be recognized. ref name clarke1986 Clarke 1986 ref The species placed here at present are ref name clarke1986 Chelophoba aganactes small Meyrick in Caradja & Meyrick, 1935 small Chelophoba melaina small J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 small SmithsonianContributionsToZoology416 1. They are widely allopatric , with C. aganactes occurring in China and C. melaina only known from Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia . The latter species might actually be more closely related to some twirler moths usually placed in Hypatima which does not belong to the Pexicopiinae. It is unknown at present whether Chelophoba is monotypic and C. melaina belongs in Hypatima , or whether the other species ought to be moved into Chelophoba . Alternatively, C. melaina might belong in the Pexicopiinae genus Ethmiopsis , as it resembles Ethmiopsis epichthonia E. epichthonia in some anatomical details perhaps Chelophoba might be synonymized with Ethmiopsis outright. ref Pitkin & Jenkins 2004 , Clarke 1986 ref Footnotes Reflist References aut Clarke, John Frederick Gates 1986 Pyrali ... more details
NHV is three letter abbreviation which may represent any of the following National Herbarium of Victoria in Australia Union Station New Haven New Haven Union Station in New Haven, Connecticut Amtrak code Nuku Hiva Airport airport on Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia IATA airport code Temascaltepec, Nahuatl language ISO 639 code disambig de NHV it NHV ... more details
This article is about the historical province in the Marquesas Islands . For other uses of Nuku , see Nuku disambiguation . Nuku was a traditional province of the island of Hiva Oa in pre European times. It did not function as a unified governmental unit, but rather as a confederation of local tribes during times of war with tribes from Hiva Oa s other province, Pepane . Nuku comprised approximately the western half of Hiva Oa s landmass, as well as the whole of the tribes of the neighboring island of Tahuata . Resources Handy, E. S. Craighill. The Native Culture in the Marquesas . Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Bulletin 9. B.P.B. Museum, Honolulu, 1971. FrenchPolynesia geo stub coord missing France Category Geography of the Marquesas Islands ... more details
Location map line lon 139 kml The meridian 139 west of Prime Meridian Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean , North America , the Pacific Ocean , the Southern Ocean , and Antarctica to the South Pole . The 139th meridian west forms a great circle with the 41st meridian east . Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole , the 139th meridian west passes through class wikitable width 125 Co ordinates Country, territory or sea Notes style background b0e0e6 Coord 90 0 N 139 0 W type waterbody name Arctic Ocean style background b0e0e6 Arctic Ocean style background b0e0e6 style background b0e0e6 Coord 73 57 N 139 0 W type waterbody name Beaufort Sea style background b0e0e6 Beaufort Sea style background b0e0e6 Coord 69 38 N 139 0 W type country name Canada CAN Yukon Herschel Island style background b0e0e6 Coord 69 34 N 139 0 W type waterbody name Beaufort Sea style background b0e0e6 Beaufort Sea style background b0e0e6 Mackenzie Bay, Canada Mackenzie Bay valign top Coord 69 26 N 139 0 W type country name Canada CAN Yukon br British Columbia for about 2km Coord 59 59 N 139 0 W type country name United States USA Alaska style background b0e0e6 Coord 59 16 N 139 0 W type waterbody name Pacific Ocean style background b0e0e6 Pacific Ocean style background b0e0e6 Passing just west of Fatu Huku island, PYF Coord 9 42 S 139 0 W type country name French Polynesia PYF Hiva Oa island valign top style background b0e0e6 Coord 9 49 S 139 0 W type waterbody name Pacific Ocean style background b0e0e6 Pacific Ocean style background b0e0e6 Passing between Tahuata and Mohotani islands, PYF br Passing just west of Puka Puka atoll, PYF br Passing just east of Akiaki atoll, PYF br Passing just west of Vahitahi atoll, PYF br Passing between Vairaatea atoll and Nukutavake island, PYF br Passing just east of Vanavana atoll, PYF Coord 21 51 S 139 0 W type country name French Polynesia PYF Moruroa atoll valign top style background ... more details
Umaga may refer to In Tagalog, it means morning . Tana Umaga b. 1973 , New Zealand rugby player Eddie Fatu 1973 2009 , Samoan American wrestler better known by his ring name Umaga hndis Category Surnames fr Umaga ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Taha Uku is a small bay on the north shore of Ta a Oa Ta a Oa the Bay of Traitors on the southern coast of Hiva Oa Hiva Oa . The bay is provides one of the best anchor ages in the whole of the Marquesas. It lies just to the east of Atuona , the administrative center of the southern Marquesas. Taha Uku is separated from Atuona Bay by a headlands and bays headland called Feki . See also French Polynesia Marquesas Islands coord 9.804 139.032 dim 3000 region FR PF display title Category Landforms of the Marquesas Islands Category Bays of the Pacific Ocean FrenchPolynesia geo stub ... more details
Image Cetus Atuona Temetiu.jpg thumb 250px right View of Temetiu from Atuona . br Photo Credit Terry & Heidi Kotas Temetiu is the South Marquesan language South Marquesan name for the highest peak of the mountain ridge that rises above the western end of Ta a Oa the Bay of Traitors in southwestern Hiva Oa Hiva &lsquo Oa . Rising to 1,213 m 3,980 ft. above sea level, Temetiu is also the highest point on the island. Related links Atuona Marquesas Islands French Polynesia coord 9 47 50 S 139 04 48 W type mountain source frwiki display title Category Landforms of the Marquesas Islands Category Mountains of French Polynesia FrenchPolynesia geo stub de Mont Temetiu fr Mont Temetiu pl Temetiu ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2007 Italic title Taxobox status VU status system IUCN2.3 regnum Plantae unranked divisio Angiosperms unranked classis Eudicots unranked ordo Rosids ordo Malvales familia Malvaceae genus Abutilon species A. sachetianum binomial Abutilon sachetianum Abutilon sachetianum is a small tree only known from the Marquesas . The species is found in small subpopulations on the islands of Eiao , Hatutaa , Hiva Oa , Mohotani and Nuku Hiva . Populations on Eiao and Hatutaa are in a critically endangered state. DEFAULTSORT Abutilon Sachetianum Category Abutilon sachetianum Category Vulnerable plants Malvales stub ... more details
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