‘Coral houses’ are dotted throughout the Pacific. Now scientists know exactly when they were built
- Written by James L. Flexner, Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology and Heritage, University of Sydney
The Mangareva Islands are about 1,600 kilometres southeast of Tahiti in French Polynesia. They get their name (which means “floating mountains”) from the way the sea spray breaking on the surrounding coral atolls, or motu,...





