Low Archipelago, the most easterly group of Polynesian islands, known also as Paumota, Tuamotu, Pearl or Dangerous Islands. They are about eighty in number, very flat and thinly peopled (8000 in all), and surrounded by coral atolls. Since 1846 they are under a French protectorate. There are rich pearl-fisheries off these islands. See POLYNESIA.
Low Archipelago,
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