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Marquesas  

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  • The Marquesas, high-rise volcanic islands with jagged peaks and razor-edge ridges, are 740 miles northeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia. Experts believe that Marquesans may have come to their archipelago from Samoa more than 2,000 years ago. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Marquesas]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MJQQHPR0-W

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