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ALBATROSS" TROPICAL PACIFIC EXPEDITION. 



looking over one of the islets of the barrier reef flat, or across one of the 

 gaps between the islets north of Teveiroa into the broad lagoon (Pis. 97, 

 fig. 2 ; 99, fig. 3) of the northern extremity of Bora Bora, the distant edge 

 of which is marked by the great curve of the narrow land ritri of Motu Ome, 

 while to the right tower the central summits of Pahia and Tenianu. 



NaIIVH HlT, BoUA liORA. 



Maupiti. 



Plates m^figs. S, i ; 105, 303; 210, fig. I 



The island of Maupiti is not more than six miles in circumference (PI. 

 210, fig. 4). The highest point of the central island is about 800 feet above 

 the sea (Pis. 104, figs. 3, 4 ; 105). An irregularly shaped lagoon, forming a 

 series of intricate passages on the lagoon side of the barrier reef flat, sep- 

 arates Maupiti from the wide barrier reef encircling the island. The barrier 

 reef flat in the southern part of the island is more than two miles wide, and 

 through this a narrow channel flanked bv two islands, one on the east and 

 one on the west, connects the labj-rinth of the lagoon with the sea (PI. 210, 

 fig. 4). The central island is flanked by a wide fringing reef ; at certain 

 points this runs across the lagoon and becomes connected with the barrier 



