Hiti
Hiti | ||
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NASA image of Hiti | ||
Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
archipelago | Tuamotu Archipelago | |
Geographical location | 16 ° 44 ′ S , 144 ° 6 ′ W | |
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Number of islands | - | |
Main island | - | |
Land area | 3 km² | |
Lagoon area | 15 km² | |
Residents | uninhabited |
Hiti, or Hiti-rau-mea , is a narrow, uninhabited atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean . The atoll has an oval shape, is 9 km long and 6 km wide. The land area is only about 3 km². The lagoon has no access to the sea. Hiti belongs to French Polynesia and there to the municipality of Makemo . The atoll forms together with Tepoto Sud and Tuanake the group of Raevski Atolls .
The atoll was discovered in 1820 by the Baltic German explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen .
Web links
- Brief description and picture ( memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Birds of the atoll (English)
- Description of the red-shouldered earth dove (PDF, English; 142 kB)