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Faaite, or Faaiti is an atoll of the Tuamotus in French Polynesia. It is located 60 km to the north of Anaa Atoll. The total surface of the atoll is 227 km² Its dry land area is 8.87 km². Its length is 28 km and its width 10.5 km. The total population as of 2012 is 401 inhabitants. Faaite's inner lagoon has a navigable channel to the ocean. The main village is Hitianau, with a total population of 246. ==History== First recorded sighting by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós on 11 February 1606. It was charted as ''Decena'' (ten in Spanish). 〔Beltrán y Rozpide, Ricardo "Las islas Tuamotu", ''Boletín de la Sociedad Geográfica de Madrid''. t.XV, 2º semestre de 1881, pp-7-54.〕 John Turnbull rediscovered it in 1802. Turnbull was the first retailer of the Pacific who used the route of Tahiti to Hawaii. Russian oceanic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen visited Faaite in 1820 on the ships ''Vostok'' and ''Mirni''. He named this atoll "Miloradovich". This atoll reached a measure of fame after the "Bûchers de Faaite" affair. On September 2 1987 six persons were thrown into the fire (some of them by their own children) because the islanders were convinced that they were possessed by the devil. There is a territorial (domestic) airfield in Faaite which was inaugurated in 1992. 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「Faaite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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