Tauere Atoll

Tauere is a small atoll in the central Tuamotus, its low coral rim enclosing a lagoon. The expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós sighted it in 1606 and charted it as La Decena. In 1772 Domingo de Boenechea passed the island on his voyage from Peru toward Tahiti and called it San Simón y Judas.