Nengonengo Atoll

Nengonengo is a low atoll in the Tuamotu archipelago, southeast of Ravahere and southwest of Hao. Its narrow coral land surrounds a broad lagoon, with a shallow passage on the northern side connecting the lagoon to the ocean.

The Tuamotu islands formed part of a Polynesian world linked by ocean navigation and exchange. The first recorded European arrival at Nengonengo was Samuel Wallis in 1767, who gave it the name Prince William Henry. That record of an overseas voyage does not establish the full earlier history of the atoll or its inhabitants.