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- as remote as you can get -
Total Solar Eclipse of 2010 July 11, Tatakoto (French Polynesia)
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Eclipse City’s associate Xavier Jubier:
“After leaving for French Polynesia in early July, I welcomed the eclipse chasers of my international group on July 7th in Papeete. While in Tahiti we stayed at the Radisson Plaza Resort Tahiti. On July 9th morning, we boarded our private charter flight to the Tatakoto atoll, located nearly 1,300 kilometres east of Papeete in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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We then stayed for the next few days in local houses in the Tumukuru village. The two days prior the eclipse were mostly dedicated to setup our viewing site on an isolated motu, to explore the atoll and its natural wonders and to observe the starry night sky.
On July 10th afternoon, part of the group went by boat to the Tahunatara motu and spent the night there to be ready for the eclipse.
In the morning of July 11th morning we were greeted by 4 minutes and 28 seconds of totality in between rainstorms.” |
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We are thankful to Xavier to have brought back so nice pictures of this amazing tour to totality at one of the earth’s paradises.
The pictures on this page are a courtesy of Xavier Jubier (© Xavier M. Jubier, 2010) and Paulo Rocha.
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