The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 EQUATOEIAL POLYNESIA. 471 The various groups continuing the Samoan range south-eastwards also consist either of volcanoes or upheaved coral rocks, with but few atolls. The Cook Islands have several cones 300 or 400 feet high, overtopped by the majestic Raratonga, which attains an elevation of 4,000 feet. Of like formation are the Tubuai or Austral Islands, whose reef-fringed igneous crests continue the line of the Samoan system. But the loftiest volcanic mountains in equatorial Polynesia are thos
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 EQUATOEIAL POLYNESIA. 471 The various groups continuing the Samoan range south-eastwards also consist either of volcanoes or upheaved coral rocks, with but few atolls. The Cook Islands have several cones 300 or 400 feet high, overtopped by the majestic Raratonga, which attains an elevation of 4,000 feet. Of like formation are the Tubuai or Austral Islands, whose reef-fringed igneous crests continue the line of the Samoan system. But the loftiest volcanic mountains in equatorial Polynesia are those of the Fig. 206.—Gambier Aechipelago. Scale 1 : 200,000, I34°55 0 to 12 Fathoms. Depths. 12 to 500 Fathoms. 500 Fathoms and upwards. 3 Miles. Tahiti or Society group. Here Maupiti, rising over 300 feet above an atoll, is followed by the twin-crested Bora-Bora (2,300 feet), Tahaa (1,300 feet), Huahine (1,180 feet), and the isolated Tapamanoa, leading to the superb group of Tahiti proper. Moorea or Eimeo, westernmost of this group, is dominated bj'^ the long extinct Tohivea (4,000 feet), whose decomposed lavas now support a luxuriant
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