Raiatea

[ rah-yuh-tey-uh ]

noun

1. a volcanic island in the Leeward Island group of the Society Islands, French Polynesia, in the South Pacific. 92 sq. mi. (238 sq. km).

Example Sentences

I had letters to deliver in Raiatea, and officials to see, and there was Charmian down below getting ready to go ashore.

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It was not so far away but that cutters made the passage back and forth between it and Raiatea.

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Laa married all three on the same day, and before his departure for Raiatea each wife on the same day presented a son to him.

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He was living on the island of Raiatea: but as he himself said, "I cannot be confined within the limits of a single reef."

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A week later Mauriri and a Raiatea man swam back with empty calabashes.

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