Tubuai, administrative center of the Australs archipelago, is a mountain island ; its higher mountain, TAITAA, culminates to 422 m. it possesses a big lagoon, 5 km in its biggest width. And his five motus are the pride of this island of the tip of the world. Tubuai is the only mountainous island entirely surrounded of beaches. Fletcher CHRISTIAN falls in love with this island ; he introduces the animals, constructed the "Fort GEORGE". But he must leave Tubuai in September 1789 for finally, to get settled in Pitcairn.
