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Title: A lunar landscape after the phosphate extraction, atoll of Makatea
Creator: Cauderay, Suzanne
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: 102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/
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Description: A lunar landscape after the phosphate extraction, atoll of Makatea
After the extraction of the phosphated sand, only féo (columns of hard limestone, of coral origin) remain.
Comment : The atoll of Makatea was for a long time an economic driver for the French Polynesia region because of its large phosphate deposits. These were mined by the CFPO (Compagnie Française des Phosphates de l'Océanie) from 1917 until depletion of resources in 1966.
Use of document : A similar photograph was published in "Le Journal des Missions", February, 1964
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 8.7x6.3 cm
8.7x6.3 cm (sup.)
photographs
Identifier: IMP-DEFAP_PFPP180-15204_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88913
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP180-15204_2.jpg
Subject: Mining
Soils
Time Period: 1952
Place: French Polynesia
Makatea (French Polynesia)
Tuamotu Archipelago
Oceania
Source: SMEP/PF.PP.180-15204 [File]
Relation: Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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