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tuamotu archipelago

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Tu⋅a⋅mo⋅tu Archipel⋅ago

[too-uh-moh-too]
–noun
a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 6664; 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
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Tu·a·mo·tu Archipelago   (tōō'ə-mō'tōō)   
An island group of French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean east of Tahiti. Discovered by the Spanish in 1606, the islands were annexed by France in 1881.
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