The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 472 AUSTRALASIA. tropical vegetation. Of more symmetrical form is Taiti Nui ('Great Tahiti'), whose regular cone occupies the centre of the island, which is connected on the south-east by a narrow tongue of land with Taiti Iti, or ' Little Tahiti.' Komo, highest peak of the latter (3,700 feet), is nearly doubled in height by the superb Orohena (7,335 feet), which springs from the centre of Great Tahiti. The neigh- Fig. 207.—The Maequesas. Scale 1 : 2,000,000. West oF breenwich 0 to 1,000 Fatho
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 472 AUSTRALASIA. tropical vegetation. Of more symmetrical form is Taiti Nui ('Great Tahiti'), whose regular cone occupies the centre of the island, which is connected on the south-east by a narrow tongue of land with Taiti Iti, or ' Little Tahiti.' Komo, highest peak of the latter (3,700 feet), is nearly doubled in height by the superb Orohena (7,335 feet), which springs from the centre of Great Tahiti. The neigh- Fig. 207.—The Maequesas. Scale 1 : 2,000,000. West oF breenwich 0 to 1,000 Fathoms. Depths. 1,000 to Fathoms. 2,000 Fathoms and upwards. 30 Miles. bouring Aorai is nearly as lofty, while several of the surrounding satellites of these two monarchs attain an altitude of 5,000 feet. Orohena, that is, 'Soil of the Gods,' terminating in a cluster of vertical basalt columns, has never been scaled, and even the more accessible Aorai was only ascended for the first time in 1882. Some hundred and fifty streams or rivulets rushing in cascades over the basalt terraces have gradually deposited the rich detritus of the eruptive rocks on the narrow
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