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to the east, with a total area of 6 km on either side of a lagoon about 7 km x 4 km. Manuae islet has an area of 2.1 km, while Te Au O Tu islet is 3.9 km. The lagoon is 13 km in size, shallow and subject to large shifting sand banks. A coral reef surrounds the atoll, and
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Proprietors of Manuae Incorporated (PMI) were established by court order in 1983. The committee members are elected by the indigenous landowners of Manuae Atoll on a regular basis. In October 2022, the PMI established the not-for-profit Manuae Enua Conservation Trust (MECT) to represent the
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industry with a settlement established next to the small reef passage less than one kilometer northeast of
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In April/May 1965 the population briefly increased to more than a hundred when the island was visited by six expeditions (from
Australia, N.Z., Japan, U.K., U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.) to observe the total solar eclipse of 30 May 1965.
242:, who found it inhabited by sixty people. The island was depopulated shortly afterwards, and by 1852 was home to a single family. In 1888 it was declared to be a British protectorate. In 1898 it was leased out as a
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The waters surrounding the island are a marine park and it is an important breeding ground for seabirds and marine turtles in the
Central Pacific. The offshore waters of Manuae are good fishing grounds.
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777:"COOK ISLANDS – Lower Group Census"
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