INDEX - TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO, French Polynesia |
| The Tuamotos are an enormous arc of exclusively coral atolls encompassing an area larger than Europe but having a land mass of only1500 sq. miles. Made up of about 80 islands, these atolls are formed of coral rings rising only 6-12 feet above the rolling Pacific. 30 atolls are permanently uninhabited; About 11,500 people live throughout the 46 inhabited islands |
