Moorea is a high island that is part of the Society Islands, one of the five major island groups that form French Polynesia. The island of Moorea is administratively part of the municipality of Moorea-Maiao, which itself is in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands. It has now become a main tourist destination, visited by many tourists traveling to French Polynesia because of its striking landscape, friendly people, and close geographical proximity to Papeete, Tahiti. From above, the shape of the island vaguely resembles a fork, with its two nearly symmetrical bays opening to the north side of the island: Cook's Bay and Oponohu Bay. The island was formed as a volcano approximately 1.5 to 2.5 million years ago, the result of a geologic hotspot in the mantle under the oceanic plate that formed the whole of the Society Archipelago. It is theorized that the current bays were formerly river basins that filled during the Holocene searise. from the navigator
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