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Captain James Cook ( 7 November 172814 February 1779 ) was a British explorer , navigator , cartographer , and captain in the Royal Navy . Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the ___MASK75___ , during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands , and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand . The ___MASK75___ is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east . The President , Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of ___MASK80___ for Improving Natural Knowledge , commonly known as the Royal Society , is a learned society for science and is possibly the oldest such society still in existence . Founded in November 1660 , it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II as " The Royal Society ". The Society is the United Kingdom ' s and Commonwealth of Nations ' Academy of Sciences and fulfills a number of roles ; promoting science and its benefits , recognising excellence in science , supporting outstanding science , providing scientific advice for policy , fostering international and global cooperation , education and public engagement . The society is governed by its Council , which is chaired by the Society ' s President , according to a set of statutes and standing orders . The members of Council and the President are elected from and by its Fellows , the basic members of the society , who are themselves elected by existing Fellows . As of 2016 , there are about 1 , 600 fellows , allowed to use the postnominal title FRS ( Fellow of the Royal Society ), with up to 52 new fellows appointed each year . There are also royal fellows , honorary fellows and foreign members , the last of which are allowed to use the postnominal title ForMemRS ( Foreign Member of the Royal Society ). The Royal Society President is Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , who took up the post on November 30 , 2015 . Papeete ( pronounced ) is the capital of French Polynesia , an overseas country of ___MASK7___ in the ___MASK75___ . The commune ( municipality ) of Papeete is located on the island of Tahiti , in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands , of which Papeete is the administrative capital . The French High Commissioner also resides in Papeete . It is the primary center of Tahitian and French Polynesian public and private governmental , commercial , industrial and financial services , the hub of French Polynesian tourism and a commonly used port of call . The Windward Islands are themselves part of the Society Islands . The name " Papeete " means " water from a basket ". An archipelago , sometimes called an island group or island chain , is a chain , cluster or collection of islands . The word " archipelago " is derived from the Greek "  -  arkhi -" (" chief ") and "   pélagos " (" sea ") through the Italian " arcipelago ". In Italian , possibly following a tradition of antiquity , the Archipelago ( from medieval Greek "*  " and Latin " archipelagus ") was the proper name for the ___MASK98___ and , later , usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ). It is now used to refer to any island group or , sometimes , to a sea containing a small number of scattered islands . French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of the French Republic ; " ( COM )", sometimes unofficially referred to as an overseas country ; " ( POM )". It is composed of 118 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over an expanse of more than in the South ___MASK75___ . Its total land area is . The ___MASK44___ includes a group of islands in the South ___MASK75___ . It is , politically and legally , part of French Polynesia . The archipelago is believed to have been named by Captain James Cook during his first voyage in 1769 , supposedly in honour of the Royal Society , the sponsor of the first British scientific survey of the islands ; however , Cook , himself , stated in his journal that he called the islands " Society " " as they lay contiguous to one another ." An atoll (, , , or ), sometimes called a coral atoll , is a ring - shaped coral reef including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely . There may be coral islands / cays on the rim . The atoll of Manua ' e , also known as Scilly , is located approximately 60 km ( 37 mi ) to the northwest of Maupiha ' a ( aka Mopelia ) and 255 km ( 158 mi ) to the west of Maupiti . It is the westernmost of the ___MASK44___ ' Leeward Islands , located 217 mi . ( 350 km ) west of Bora Bora and 342 mi . ( 550 km ) west of Pape ' ete . Bora Bora is a island in the Leeward group in the western part of the ___MASK44___ of French Polynesia , an overseas collectivity of ___MASK7___ in the ___MASK75___ . The island , located about northwest of Papeete , is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef . In the centre of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks , Mount Pahia and Mount Otemanu , the highest point at . A cay ( or ), also spelled caye or key , is a small , low - elevation , sandy island on the surface of a coral reef . Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific , Atlantic and Indian Oceans ( including in the ___MASK84___ and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef ).