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Raroia, or Raro-nuku, is an
atoll of the
Tuamotus chain in
French Polynesia,
located 740 km
northeast of
Tahiti and 6 km
southwest of Takume. Administratively...
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Raroia Airport (IATA: RRR, ICAO: NTKO) is an
airport on the
atoll of
Raroia, part of the
Tuamotu Archipelago in
French Polynesia. The
airport is adjacent...
- 900 km (4,300 miles)
across the
Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at
Raroia in the
Tuamotus on
August 7, 1947. The crew made
successful landfall and...
- Française. ISBN 978-3-11-026035-9. Danielsson,
Bengt (1965). Work and Life on
Raroia: An
Acculturation Study from the
Tuamotu Group,
French Oceania. London:...
- Heyerdahl,
sailing from
South America with a crew of five others,
reached Raroia on his raft Kon-Tiki. The
islands were in the news
again somewhat later...
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Makatea Raeffsky Islands (Îles Raéffsky) Anaa
Faaite Tahanea Motutunga Takume Raroia Taenga Nihiru Makemo Katiu Tuanake Hiti
Tepoto (South) (Tepoto Sud) Marutea...
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operated steam tug Barclay. "Barclay de Tolly" was the name
given in 1820 to
Raroia island in the Tuamotus,
French Polynesia. In 2013, JSC Aeroflot-Russian...
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owner Abel
Sailley and Josephine, née Mayer. They
decided to
settle in
Raroia, the
atoll on
which the raft had made landfall. They sta****
there from 1949...
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between South America and Polynesia. The Kon-Tiki
smashed into the reef at
Raroia in the
Tuamotus on 7
August 1947
after a 101-day, 4,300-nautical-mile (5...
- Thor Heyerdahl's
balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki,
smashes into the reef at
Raroia in the
Tuamotu Islands,
after a 101-day, 4,300 mile,
voyage across the Eastern...
