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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island group of French Polynesia in the south-central Pacific Ocean.
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- noun a group of islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
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A second migration from Mangareva in the Gambier Islands, 1700 miles to the north, brought a less creative, more agriculturally inclined group, who, it has been guessed, at some point clashed with the Marquesas emigrants and wiped them out.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II) Richard Bangs 2011
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The Tuamotus and Gambier Islands are largely atolls, while the Pitcairn group consists of raised limestone islands and high islands.
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Similar efforts would benefit breeding seabirds in the Tuamotu archipelago and the Gambier Islands.
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Pitcairn is about 900,000 years old and the Gambier Islands are probably the remnants of a more ancient island that would have once encompassed much of the area inside the huge fringing reef and atoll.
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The only area of native vegetation remaining in the Gambier Islands is on the steep south slope of Mt. Mokota, Mangareva Island.
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Spread over 3,000 km2 of the Pacific Ocean, this ecoregion encompasses the 76 atolls and islands of Tuamotu, which stretch 1,800 kilometers (km) to the Gambier Islands and the Pitcairn Islands 1,000 km to the east.
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Breeding seabirds of Gambier Islands, Eastern Polynesia: numbers and changes during the 20th century.
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Polynesians arrived in the Gambier Islands by the 1100s, and since then humans and introduced species including three rat species, cats, goats, and rabbits have resulted in the elimination of 98 percent of the native vegetation in the Gambier Islands.
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Pitcairn Island and most of the Gambier Islands are volcanic high islands, Pitcairn reaching 350 m and Mangareva in the Gambier Islands reaching 435 m.
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In 1844, they took Gambier Islands in the Tuamotus, claiming a protectorate over the entire group, which was formally annexed in 1881.
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