Society Islands

Dymond, J. 1975. K-Ar ages of Tahiti and Moorea, Society Islands, and implications for the hot-spot model. Geology 3 236-240. 

Tridacna dam Poisoning. Giant clams of the species Tridacna maxima, commonly eaten in French Pol)mesia, may sometimes give rise to digestive disorders and serious disturbances of the nervous system, such as paresthesia, lack of motor coordination, ataxia, and tremor. Such on outbreak occurred at Bora-Bora in the Society Islands in 1964 (37). About 30 persons were affected and there were two deaths. Numerous domestic animals which had eaten the remnants... 

The Tuamotus. The trade in reef fish between the Tuamotus, atolls north of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, and Tahiti, may be the most extensively developed export of reef fish at the local level threatened by cigatoxicity. Over 60% of the entire population of French Polynesia resides on Tahiti and the majority in the Papeete urban zone. Due to overfishing and environmental change associated with population increase, the resources around the island of Tahiti are depleted. In 1976 49% of the fish sold in the Papeete market was from the Tuamotus. Trade links between the two island groups go back to the trade in stone axes in precontact times and continue... 

Figure 19 Nb/U versus Sr/ Sr for basalts from the Society Islands using data of White and Duncan (1996). Two samples with Th/U >6.0 have been removed because they form outliers on an Nb/Th versus Nb/U correlation and are therefore suspected of alteration or anal3ftical effects on the U concentration. One strongly fractionated trach3de sample has also been removed. This correlation and a similar one of Nd/Pb versus Sr/ Sr (not shown) is consistent with the addition of a sedimentary or other continental component to the source of the Society Island (EM-2) basalts.

The South Pacific Area lay south of the Equator, east of longitude east, and west of longitude 110 west. It was a vast expanse and included more than one million square miles of ocean and thousands of islands among them New Zealand, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, and the Santa Cruz, Fiji, Samoan, Tongan, Cook, and Society Island. 

New Zealand, south-east Australia, Tasmania) H. dendroides (south-east Asia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji) H. tahiticum (Samoa, Society Islands, and the Marquesas). 

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