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Takume or Pukamaru is an atoll of the Tuamotus chain in French Polynesia, located 790 km northeast of Tahiti and 6 km northeast of Raroia and 128 km to the west of Fangatau. This elongated atoll measures 24 km by 5 km. Its lagoon has an area of 43.5 km². Takume has many small motus on its reef; most are located on its eastern fringes. The long and deep lagoon has one navigable pass to enter it. Takume Atoll has 116 inhabitants. The main village is Ohomo. ==History== Takume and Raroia were called Napaite, "the Twins" (ite, two), by the ancient Paumotu people. The first recorded European who arrived to Amanu Atoll was Spanish navigator Pedro Fernández de Quirós on 15 February 1606, while sailing across the Pacific Ocean in search of Terra Australis. It was charted as ''La Fugitiva'' (The Fugitive in Spanish).〔Sharp, Andrew The discovery of the Pacific Islands, Oxford, 1960, p.65〕 In 1820 it was visited by the Russian oceanic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1820 on ships ''Vostok'' and ''Mirni''. He named this atoll "Wolkonsky".〔(''Les Atolls des Tuamotu'' ) par Jacques Bonvallot, Institut de recherche pour le développement, éditions de l'IRD, 1994, ISBN 9782709911757, pp.275-282.〕 Takume Airport was inaugurated in 1996. 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「Takume」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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