Vairaatea
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Vairaatea is an atoll in the Tuamotu archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Politically, it is part of French Polynesia, where the municipality Nukutavake. From the island of the same Nukutavake Vairaatea is about 38 kilometers away from Hao atoll 180 kilometers.
The atoll consists of two large, crescent-shaped islands in the north-west and the east, numerous small motus and a shallow central lagoon. Only the eastern island of Puka Runga is inhabited by 66 residents who live on the northern tip of the island in the main town Ahura. Main livelihood of the population are fishing and the production of copra.
Vairaatea may have already been discovered in 1606 by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandez de Quirós for Europe. He named the island San Miguel Archangel. [Note 1] is considered to be backed up the discovery by Samuel Wallis on June 6, 1767th He gave her the name " Egmont Iceland ".