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Also known as Teri'i-hau-roa, Rere-ao Te-hau-roa-ari'i

'''Rere-ao Te-hau-roa-ari'i, also given as Teri'i-hau-roa''' ( 1830 – 18 March 1884), was the Queen of Raiatea and Tahaa. In the Tahitian language, her name means "flying-in-the-world" and "perpetual peace" or "long governments of kings".

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'''Rere-ao Te-hau-roa-ari'i, also given as Teri'i-hau-roa''' ( 1830 – 18 March 1884), was the Queen of Raiatea and Tahaa. In the Tahitian language, her name means "flying-in-the-world" and "perpetual peace" or "long governments of kings".

==Life== Tehauroa was the daughter of King Tahitoe of Raiatea and his second wife, Metua'aro. Her grandfather Hihipa Tahitoe was the son of Vete'a-ra'i U'uru, the chief of Opoa, and grandson of King Tamatoa II of Raiatea from whom her family claimed the right to throne of Raiatea. She was the namesake of her grandmother Rere-ao, wife of Hihipa Tahitoe, who was the daughter of Queen Maevarua of Bora Bora and sister of King Tapoa I of Tahaa and Bora Bora.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tehauroa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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