Tapoa II

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| name = Tapoa II

| title = King of Tahaʻa and Bora Bora

| image = Tapoa II, by H. B. Martin.jpg

| image_size = 185px

| caption = Painting by Henry Byam Martin, {{Circa|1840s}}

| succession = King of Bora Bora

| reign = 1831–1860

| coronation =

| predecessor = Tapoa I

| successor = Teriimaevarua II

| succession1 = Royal consort of Tahiti

| reign1 = 1827–1834

| reign-type1 = Tenure

| spouse = Pōmare IV
Tapoa Vahine

| issue = Teriimaevarua II {{small|(adoptive)}}

| full name =

| house = House of Tapoa

| father = Tapoa I

| mother = Ai-mata

| birth_date = {{Circa|1806}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = March {{Death year and age|1860|1806}}

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Tapoa II (c. 1806–1860) was the king of the Tahitian island of Bora Bora from 1831 to 1860.{{sfn|Cadousteau1|987|pages=44, 66}} He was also a Royal consort of Tahiti as husband of Pōmare IV, Queen regnant of Tahiti.

Tapoa II was born in 1806.{{sfn|Lesson|1838|page=266}} He was the son of Tapoa I, King of Tahaʻa and Bora Bora, by his wife, Ai-mata. He married Pōmare IV in December 1822. This marriage was childless and ended in divorce in 1834.{{sfn|Henry|Orsmond|1928|page=249}}{{sfn|Pritchard|1983|page=225}}

Later, he married Tapoa Vahine.{{sfn|Henry|Orsmond|1928|page=259}}

Ancestry

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|1= 1. Tapoa II

|2= 2. Tapoa I of Bora Bora

|3= 3. Ai-mata of Bora Bora

|4= 4. Ta'o-ata

|5= 5. Teri'imaevarua I of Bora Bora

|6= 6. Pa of Bora Bora

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|8= 8. Mano-tahi

|9= 9. Te-i'oa-tua

|10= 10. Uru-a-tu

|11= 11. Tetua-ti'i-roa

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|16= 16. Tau-niua

|17= 17. Ha'apai-taha'a-vahine of Raiatea

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|20= 20. Teri'itemiro

|21= 21. Tetope

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References

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  • {{cite book|last=Bennett|first=Frederick Debell|title=Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Round the Globe from the Year 1833 to 1836: Comprising Sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian Archipelago, Etc. With an Account of Southern Whales, the Sperm Whale Fishery, and the Natural History of the Climates Visited|url=https://archive.org/details/narrativeofwhali02bennrich|year=1840|publisher=R. Bentley|location=London|oclc=1382866|pages=[https://archive.org/details/narrativeofwhali02bennrich/page/138 138]–139}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Cadousteau|first=Mai-Arii|title=Généalogies Commentées des Arii des Îles de la Société|journal=Bulletin de la Société des Études Océaniennes|issue=239–240|url=http://bibnum.upf.pf/items/show/830|year=1987|publisher=Société des Études Océaniennes|location=Papeete|oclc=9510786|pages=45–50}}
  • {{cite book|last=Christian|first=Erwin|title=Bora Bora|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haqIUjmaAmoC|year=1989|publisher=Hunter Publishing, Incorporated|location=Edison, NJ|isbn=978-1-55650-198-2|oclc=21321148}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Gunson|first=Niel|title=An Account of the Mamaia or Visionary Heresy of Tahiti, 1826–1841|journal=The Journal of the Polynesian Society|url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_71_1962/Volume_71%2C_No._2/An_account_of_the_Mamaia_or_Visionary_Heresy_of_Tahiti%2C_1826-1841%2C_by_Niel_Gunson%2C_p_208-243/p1|volume=71|issue=2|date=June 1962|publisher=The Polynesian Society|location=Wellington|jstor=20703998|oclc=5544737364|pages=209–243}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Henry|first1=Teuira|author-link1=Teuira Henry|last2=Orsmond|first2=John Muggridge|title=Ancient Tahiti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=adorAAAAMAAJ|volume=48|year=1928|publisher=Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum|location=Honolulu|oclc=3049679}}
  • {{cite book|last=Lesson|first=René Primevère|title=Voyage autour du monde entrepris par ordre du gouvernement sur la corvette la Coquille|url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/_/bm0_My-FYD8C?hl=fr&gbpv=0|volume=1|year=1838|publisher=P. Pourrat frères|location=Paris|language=fr}}
  • {{cite book|last=Lucett|first=Edward|title=Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849: With a Glance at California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XyQ9oaSfaMwC|volume=2|year=1851|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans|location=London|oclc=6786628}}*{{cite book|last=Martin|first=Henry Byam|author-link=Henry Byam Martin|title=The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, R. N.|url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/114833/2/b12536696.pdf|year=1981|publisher=Australian National University Press|location=Canberra|hdl=1885/114833|isbn=978-0-7081-1609-8|oclc=8329030}}
  • {{cite book|last=McArthur|first=Norma|title=Island Populations of the Pacific|url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/115018/2/b1063860x.pdf|year=1967|publisher=Australian National University Press|location=Canberra|oclc=1647169}}
  • {{cite book|last=Pritchard|first=George|author-link=George Pritchard (missionary)|title=The Aggressions of the French at Tahiti: And Other Islands in the Pacific|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LKUAAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-647994-1|oclc=10470657}}

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Category:People from the Kingdom of Bora Bora

Category:1800s births

Category:1860 deaths

Category:19th-century monarchs in Oceania

Category:French Polynesian royalty

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