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Once a month, a boat brings provisions to a tiny Pacific atoll called Marutea in the outlying southeastern portion of French Polynesia, better known as Tahiti. This is the only contact with the outside world the island’s 50 or so inhabitants have.
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Federman, D. (1990). Tahitian Black Pearl. In: Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6488-7_37
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