 The only village on the atoll is located on Motu Maupihaa and as of 1985, the population consisted of just 10 people.Maupihaa Atoll was inhabited in very ancient times by Polynesians; archaeological remains and fish hooks have been found.The first European to arrive on Maupihaa, along with neighboring Fenua Ura and Motu One, was Samuel Wallis in 1767.