napuka atoll造句

• Napuka Atoll is 10.5 km long and about 4 km wide.
• Further European contact with Napuka Atoll only took place again two centuries later, in 1765, with British explorer John Byron.
• During 14 weeks on relatively isolated Napuka Atoll in the Tuamotus, Emory's team collected 200 ethnographic artifacts and recorded 90 songs and chants, along with genealogies and oral histories that remain among of " the most important sources of traditional eastern Polynesian temple ritual . " Some of their more colorful adventures and hardships on the atoll are described in the book " Road My Body Goes " ( 1937 ) by the journalist Clifford Gessler, who almost died there from a poisonous coral cut.