The Society Islands (French: Îles de la Société,[2][3] officially Archipel de la Société;[4][5] Tahitian: Tōtaiete mā)[6] are an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean that includes the major islands of Tahiti, Moʻorea, Raiatea, Bora Bora and Huahine. Politically, they are part of French Polynesia, an overseas country of the French Republic. Geographically, they form part of Polynesia.
The archipelago is believed to have been named by Captain James Cook during his first voyage in 1769, supposedly in honour of the Royal Society, the sponsor of the first British scientific survey of the islands; however, Cook wrote in his journal that he called the islands Society "as they lay contiguous to one another".[7]
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^Robineau, Claude (1984). Tradition et modernité aux îles de la Société : Les racines (in French). IRD Editions. ISBN 978-2-7099-0687-6.
^Deschamps, Emmanuel; Deschamps, Aiu (2007). L'archipel de la Société : Tahiti et ses îles (in French). Éditions Le Motu. ISBN 978-2-87923-225-6.
^Bora Bora : Polynésie Francaise ; Archipel de la Société ; Îles sous le Vent (in French). SU. 2005.
^Moore, Peter (2019-05-14). Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-71551-9.
^Horwitz, Tony. Oct. 2003, Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-6455-8
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