Rurutu French Polynesia

About Rurutu - Australian Isles

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Rurutu's temperate climates offer diverse scenery and lush greenery. Rurutu is a real Garden of Eden with coffees, "miri" (wild basil), grapefruits, oranges, lemons, papayas and lycheeing. Enjoy a one-of-a-kind adventure on the Rurutu isle. Rurutu's wealth of flowers has made it the wickerwork city.

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About Rurutu (Austral Islands, French Polynesia)

Quote the site of the Presidency of French Polynesia (page no longer online): Rurutu is at 22º26'S and 151º:21'W, 572 kilometres south-west of the Isle of Tahiti and is the most northerly of the Austral Islands. It is a nice 32.3 sq. km area. Its longest part is 10 kilometres long and its broadest part 3 kilometres.

Rurutu's surface is the remains of a 9-12 million year old vulcano that was last in operation two million years ago. This made Rurutu a high lime stone archipelago with dramatic rocks that rise out of the ocean and caverns and grottoes containing galactites and salagmites. A long time ago, the wall of corals that surrounds the islands has reached a height of several metres.

The archaeological work of Pierre Vérin shows that the first Rurutu residents came around 900 AD. Rurutu's maras used many unique characteristics, among them a square surface with cobblestones and a stepped pyrramid of plates of coral that served as an ahu. Rurutu's tradition has been meticulously maintained, especially basket weaving and rock heaving.

It is a much-loved contest that takes place twice a year, during the July Festival or Heiva, and during the Tere Rally, which takes place at the beginning of each year, when the whole community undertakes a kind of historical journey around the islands, consisting of a trip with stopovers in various traditional and mythical places.

An introductory youth adventure, this trip to the islands symbolises the occupation of land and represents a much appreciated comeback to one's own root. Rurutu was discovered in 1769 by James Cook as the first of Europeans to be off the well-trodden paths for other seafarers and merchant ships. Christianization of the Rurutu Islands began in 1821, when some Rurutu residents survive a wreck on the Leeward Islands and were greeted by the Raiatea population.

In 1889, to avoid UK enlargement from the Cook Islands to the Austral Islands, France founded its patronage on Rurutu and in 1900 incorporated the Isle. Between Rurutu and Makatea, Nouméa and Papeete, where several "Rurutu districts" were built, it came into being in the twentieth c....

Rurutu's business activity includes the manufacture of weaved goods such as caps and wicker carcasses and, thanks to the fruitful soils, the intense farm produce of 180.2 tonnes of potato in 1996. It has a local airfield for four Air Tahiti departures a week. The number of passengers to Rurutu rose to 10,477 in 1997. Rurutu's banner, as at the opening of the Inter-Austral Islands Games in 2000 and at the seat of the Tahiti Football Association in 2006, is split horizontal white-red, with a half-length strip of half length printed on the strip of stripes and named after the islands in all-capitals.

It is very similar to the old banner used in Rurutu before the French Protectorate was established. About 1858-1889, right, 1889-1900. The old Rurutu coat of arms (around 1858-1889, before the Protectorate was founded) is split horizontal white-red according to the map of flags of paradise[brt96], with a centred half-length strip of half-length which lies on the strip of land and bears the name of the islands in empty all-caps.

Rurutu Protectorate (1889-1900) added the French nationally ensign in the area.