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"Extending 31 miles in
circumference, nine miles
northwest of Tahiti, is the
beautiful and luxuriant
island of Mo'orea
(Offshot), also named
Aimeo, or Aimeho
(Eating-in-retreat; it was
formerly the retreat of
Tahitian fugitive warriors.) It is poetically named Aimeo i te rara varu (Aimeo of eight radiations), as eight mountain ranges dissect it into eight natural divisions, and it was also sometimes called Fe'e (Octopus)... " "The mountain above is Mou'ga-puta (Pierced mountain), 2591 feet high... " "This mountain is needle shaped with an open eye... " (Henry) |