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Apataki is a coral atoll in the South Pacific Ocean, territorially part of French Polynesia. It is one of the Palliser Islands, a subgroup of the Tuamotu Archipelago. Apataki is located approximately northeast of the island of Tahiti, east of Arutua and northeast of Kaukura. The island is approximately rectangular; it is long and wide. It has a total area of approximately 706 km2 with a land area of approximately . Its wide lagoon has two navigable passes to enter it. As of 2012, Apataki Atoll has 350 inhabitants, down from 492 in 2007. The main village is called Niutahi. ==History== The first recorded European to sight Apataki Atoll was Dutch navigator Jakob Roggeveen in 1722. It was visited by James Cook in 1774. Apataki appears in some maps as "Hagemeister Island".〔>〕 On 27 May 1902, while Paul Gauguin was living in the Marquesas Islands, the mail-boat ''Croix du Sud'' between Papeete and Atuona was shipwrecked at Apataki. leading to a three-month loss of supplies for the islanders.〔Bengt Danielsson, ''Gauguin in the South Seas'', 1965, George Allen and Unwin, pp. 252, 263〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/unionnz.shtml )〕 There is a territorial (domestic) airfield in Apataki which was inaugurated in 1977. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apataki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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