Takume and Raroia were called
Napaite, "the Twins" (ite, two), by the ancient
Paumotu people. The first recorded European who arrived to Amanu Atoll was Spanish navigator
Pedro Fernández de Quirós on 15 February 1606, while sailing across the Pacific Ocean in search of
Terra Australis. It was charted as
La Fugitiva (The Fugitive in Spanish). In 1820 it was visited by the
Russian
Admiral oceanic explorer
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1820 on ships
Vostok and
Mirni. He named this atoll
Atoll Wolkonsky after
Pyotr Volkonsky. Takume Airport was inaugurated in 1996. ==Administration==