Mangareva

E574317

Mangareva is the principal island of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia and a historic cultural and religious center of the region.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Mangareva canonical 12
Mangareva (within Gambier Islands) 1
Mangareva Archipelago 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf island
administeredBy Commune of Gambier
belongsTo French overseas collectivity
capitalOf Gambier Islands
colonialPower France
country France
discoveredBy James Wilson
discoveryDate 1797
distanceTo about 1,600 km southeast of Tahiti
elevation Mount Duff 441 metres
hasArchipelago Gambier Islands
hasBay Rikitea lagoon
hasClimate tropical oceanic climate
hasCulturalRegion Polynesia
hasEconomicActivity copra production
fishing
pearl farming
hasEthnicGroup Polynesians
hasFeature central volcanic island
fringing coral reef
hasHighestPoint Mount Duff
hasHistoricalEvent 19th-century Christianization of the Gambier Islands
hasHistoricalPeriod pre-European Polynesian chiefdom
hasLagoon Gambier Islands lagoon
hasLanguage French language
linked to: French

Mangarevan language
Tahitian language
hasNearbyIsland Agakauitai
linked to: Angakauitai

Akamaru
Aukena
Taravai
hasPopulationCharacteristic small population
hasReligion Roman Catholicism
hasReligiousBuilding St. Michael’s Cathedral, Rikitea
hasReligiousOrderHistory Catholic missionaries of the Picpus Fathers
hasRunwayAccess served by Totegegie Airport (on nearby islet)
hasSettlement Rikitea
hasTraditionalReligion Polynesian indigenous religion
hasTransportation small port facilities at Rikitea
largestSettlement Rikitea
locatedIn French Polynesia
Gambier Islands
Pacific Ocean
partOf Gambier Islands
Overseas collectivity of French Polynesia
linked to: French Polynesia
timeZone UTC−09:00
wasCulturalCenterOf Gambier Islands
wasReligiousCenterOf Gambier Islands

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gambier Islands largestIsland Mangareva
Gambier Islands hasIsland Mangareva
Mangarevans ethnicGroupOf Mangareva Island
linked to: Mangareva
Mangarevans mainIsland Mangareva
Rikitea locatedOnIsland Mangareva
Aukena nearbyIsland Mangareva
Tauna near Mangareva
Totegegie Airport serves Mangareva
Totegegie Airport locatedOn atoll of Mangareva
linked to: Mangareva
Puaumu nearbyIslands Mangareva (within Gambier Islands)
linked to: Mangareva
Tepapuri nearbyIslandGroup Mangareva
East Polynesia hasPart Mangareva
East Polynesia hasPart Mangareva Archipelago
linked to: Mangareva