Acteon Group

The Actéon Islands (French Îles du groupe Actéon or simplified Groupe Actéon ) are a group of islands in the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. They are located in the southeastern region of the archipelago and are administratively to the municipality already Gambier Gambier Islands of, of which they are located about 225 kilometers away.

The island group is composed, from west to east, from the four atolls Tenararo, Vahanga, Tenarunga and Matureivavao. The total land area of the islands is 8.7 km ², including the area of the lagoons 38.3 km ². None of the four atolls is permanently inhabited.

As the first Europeans sighted in 1606 by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandez de Quirós the archipelago.

The archipelago is after the frigate H.M.S. Actaeon the British Captain Lord Edward Russell named the started off the group on January 3, 1837. Another name Amphitrite Islands, comes from AG Findlay, who they named after the ship of the Tahitian pearl merchant Thomas Ebrill. Ebrill its part, in 1833 there go.