Bora Bora, the Glossary
Bora Bora (French: Bora-Bora; Tahitian: Pora Pora) is an island group in the Leeward Islands in the South Pacific.[1]
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- Volcanoes of French Polynesia
Administrative divisions of French Polynesia
In French Polynesia, there are two levels of administrative divisions: five administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives) and 48 communes.
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Afternoon
Afternoon is the time between noon and sunset or evening.
Air base
An airbase (stylised air base in American English), sometimes referred to as a military airbase, military airfield, military airport, air station, naval air station, air force station, or air force base, is an aerodrome or airport used as a military base by a military force for the operation of military aircraft.
Air Tahiti
Air Tahiti is a French airline company which operates in French Polynesia.
Anne Chevalier
Anne Chevalier (also known as Reri; 1912–1977) was a French-Tahitanian actress, singer and dancer.
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Artificial island
An artificial island or man-made island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed through natural processes.
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Atoll
An atoll is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon.
Batoidea
Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays.
Bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.
Beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.
Bicycle
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other.
Bora Bora Airport
Bora Bora Airport, also known as Motu Mute Airport, is an airport serving the island of Bora Bora in French Polynesia.
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Bora Bora Island
Bora Bora Island is a island in the Bora Bora Islands Group, within the Society Islands of French Polynesia. Bora Bora and Bora Bora Island are volcanoes of French Polynesia.
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Bora-Bora (commune)
Bora-Bora is a commune of French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
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Bungalow
A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is single-storey, and may be surrounded by wide verandas.
Catamaran
A catamaran (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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CFP franc
The CFP franc (French:, called the franc in everyday use) is the currency used in the French overseas collectivities (or COM) of French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Wallis and Futuna.
Christian mission
A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Coconut
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos.
Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
Communes of France
The is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.
See Bora Bora and Communes of France
Copra
Copra (from) is the dried, white flesh of the coconut from which coconut oil is extracted.
Coral
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.
Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.
Cordia subcordata
Cordia subcordata is a species of flowering tree in the borage family.
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Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress.
Dicranopteris linearis
Dicranopteris linearis is a common species of fern known by many common names, including Old World forked fern, uluhe (Hawaiian), and dilim (Filipino).
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Euglandina
Euglandina is a genus of predatory medium- to large-sized, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.
Euro
The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Faaʻa International Airport
Faaa International Airport (Aéroport international de Tahiti-Faaa), also known as Tahiti International Airport, is the international airport of French Polynesia, located in the commune of Faaa, on the island of Tahiti.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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French Polynesia
French Polynesia (Polynésie française; Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country.
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Gaston Tong Sang
Gaston Tong Sang (born 7 August 1949 in Bora Bora) is a French Polynesian politician and is the former President of French Polynesia.
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Gastropoda
Gastropods, commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda.
Glochidion
Glochidion is a genus of flowering plants, of the family Phyllanthaceae, known as cheese trees or buttonwood in Australia, and leafflower trees in the scientific literature.
Helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.
Hibiscus tiliaceus
Hibiscus tiliaceus, commonly known as the sea hibiscus or coast cottonwood, is a species of flowering tree in the mallow family, Malvaceae, with a pantropical distribution along coastlines.
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Hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis.
Hotel Bora Bora
Hotel Bora Bora was a luxury hotel and resort located on the island of Bora Bora in the Society Islands in French Polynesia.
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Idolatry
Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were a deity.
Inocarpus
Inocarpus is a small genus of flowering plants belonging to the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family, Fabaceae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.
Jacob Roggeveen
Jacob Roggeveen (1 February 1659 – 31 January 1729) was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis and Davis Land, but instead found Easter Island (called so because he landed there on Easter Sunday).
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James Cook
Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
Jane Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress and activist.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Kingdom of Bora Bora
The Kingdom of Bora Bora was established during the early 19th century with the unification of the island of Bora Bora and official recognition by France and the United Kingdom in 1847 through the Jarnac Convention.
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Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses.
Language
Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.
Leeward Islands (Society Islands)
The Leeward Islands (Îles Sous-le-vent,,; Fenua Raro Mata’i) are the western part of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France, in the South Pacific Ocean.
See Bora Bora and Leeward Islands (Society Islands)
Leopard whipray
The leopard whipray (Himantura leoparda) is a little-known species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the Andaman Sea to the Coral Triangle.
See Bora Bora and Leopard whipray
Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
Lissachatina fulica
Lissachatina fulica is a species of large land snail that belongs in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae.
See Bora Bora and Lissachatina fulica
List of reduplicated place names
This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived.
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List of volcanoes in French Polynesia
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes.
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London Missionary Society
The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams.
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Manihot
Manihot is a genus in the diverse milkspurge family, Euphorbiaceae.
Manta ray
Manta rays are large rays belonging to the genus Mobula (formerly its own genus Manta).
Marae
A marae (in New Zealand Māori, Cook Islands Māori, Tahitian), malae (in Tongan), meae (in Marquesan) or malae (in Samoan) is a communal or sacred place that serves religious and social purposes in Polynesian societies.
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist.
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Mautodontha boraborensis
Mautodontha boraborensis is a species of gastropod in the family Charopidae.
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Météo-France
Météo-France is the official French meteorological administration, also offering services to Andorra.
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Mount Otemanu
Mount Otemanu is a mountain located in the South Pacific, on the island of Bora Bora.
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Mount Pahia
Mount Pahia is a mountain located in the South Pacific, on the island of Bora Bora.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Night
Night or nighttime is the period of darkness when the Sun is below the horizon.
Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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Orobophana pacifica
Orobophana pacifica is a species of land snail of the Helicinidae family.
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Overseas collectivity
The French overseas collectivities (collectivité d'outre-mer abbreviated as COM) are first-order administrative divisions of France, like the French regions, but have a semi-autonomous status.
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Overseas France
Overseas France (France d'outre-mer, also France ultramarine) consists of 13 French territories outside Europe, mostly the remains of the French colonial empire that remained a part of the French state under various statuses after decolonization.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Papeete
Papeete (Tahitian: Papeʻete, pronounced) is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the French Republic in the Pacific Ocean.
Partula lutea
Partula lutea was a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae.
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Paul-Émile Victor
Paul-Émile Victor (born Paul Eugène Victor; 28 June 1907 – 7 March 1995) was a French ethnologist and explorer.
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Phoneme
In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.
Polynesians
Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean.
Population
Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area.
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Raʻiātea
Raiātea or Raiatea (Tahitian: Raiātea) is the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia, in the South Pacific Ocean.
Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Resort hotel
A resort hotel is a hotel which often contains full-sized luxury facilities with full-service accommodations and amenities.
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Rock (geology)
In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Papeete
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Papeete (Latin: Archidioecesis Papeetensis; French: Archidiocèse de Papeete) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in French Polynesia.
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Safari
A safari (originally) is an overland journey to observe wild animals, especially in East Africa.
Samoana attenuata
Samoana attenuata is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Partulidae.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.
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Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
Seaplane
A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.
Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
Shrub
A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.
Snorkeling
Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming face down on or through a body of water while breathing the ambient air through a shaped tube called a snorkel, usually with swimming goggles or a diving mask, and swimfins.
Society Islands
The Society Islands (Îles de la Société, officially Archipel de la Société; Tōtaiete mā) are an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean that includes the major islands of Tahiti, Mookinaorea, Raiatea, Bora Bora and Huahine.
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South Pacific Area
The South Pacific Area (SOPAC) was a multinational U.S.-led military command active during World War II.
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Sport
Sport is a form of physical activity or game.
Storm
A storm is any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere of an astronomical body.
Tahaʻa
Tahaa (sometimes spelled as "Tahaa") is an island located among the western group, the Leeward Islands, of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the South Pacific Ocean.
Tahiti
Tahiti (Tahitian) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. Bora Bora and Tahiti are volcanoes of French Polynesia.
Tahitian language
Tahitian (Tahitian: Reo Tahiti, part of Reo Māohi, languages of French Polynesia)Reo Māohi correspond to "languages of natives from French Polynesia", and may in principle designate any of the seven indigenous languages spoken in French Polynesia.
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Tarita Teriipaia
Tarita Teriipaia (born 29 December 1941) is a French retired actress of French Polynesian and Chinese descent who was the third wife of actor Marlon Brando; the couple divorced in 1972.
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Teriimaevarua III
Ari'i-Otare Terii-maeva-rua III Pomare (28 May 1871 – 19 November 1932) was the last Queen of the Tahitian island of Bora Bora from 1873 to 1895.
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Teva Victor
Teva Victor (born September 30, 1971, Bora Bora) is a French sculptor living in Punaauia, on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia, France.
Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.
Tropical monsoon climate
An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate subtype that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category Am.
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Tupai
Tūpai (Tūpai), also called Motu Iti, is a low-lying atoll in Society Islands, French Polynesia.
Tupaia (navigator)
Tupaia (also spelled Tupaea or Tupia; 1725 – 20 December 1770) was a Tahitian Polynesian navigator and arioi (a kind of priest), originally from the island of Ra'iatea in the Pacific Islands group known to Europeans as the Society Islands.
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Turtle
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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Vaitape
Vaitape is the largest city of Bora Bora Island in French Polynesia.
Volcanic crater
A volcanic crater is an approximately circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.
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Volcanic island
Geologically, a volcanic island is an island of volcanic origin.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
Wikstroemia coriacea
Wikstroemia coriacea is a species of plant in the Thymelaeaceae family.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yosihiko H. Sinoto
Yosihiko H. Sinoto (September 3, 1924 – October 4, 2017) was a Japanese-born American anthropologist at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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13th Coast Artillery (United States)
The 13th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.
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7-inch/44-caliber gun
The 7"/44 caliber gun Mark 1 (spoken "seven-inch-forty-four--caliber") and 7"/45 caliber gun Mark 2 (spoken "seven-inch-forty-five--caliber") were used for the secondary batteries of the United States Navy's last generation of pre-dreadnought battleships, the and.
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See also
Volcanoes of French Polynesia
- Bora Bora
- Bora Bora Island
- Mangareva
- Mehetiʻa
- Moua Pihaa
- Mount Ronui
- Moʻorea
- Nuku Hiva
- Raiatea
- Rocard
- Tahiti
- Teahitiʻa
- Ua Pou
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_Bora
Also known as Bora Bora (Pora Pora), Bora Bora, French Polynesia, Bora-Bora, Borra borra, Demographics of Bora Bora, Geology of Bora Bora, History of Bora Bora, Operation Bobcat, Pora Pora.
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