Mitiaro

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Mitiaro
Mitiaro satellite image
Mitiaro satellite image
Waters Pacific Ocean
Archipelago Cook Islands
Geographical location 19 ° 52 '10 "  S , 157 ° 42' 12"  W Coordinates: 19 ° 52 '10 "  S , 157 ° 42' 12"  W
Mitiaro (Cook Islands)
Mitiaro
length 6.4 km
width 6 km
surface 22.25 km²
Highest elevation 11  m
Residents 219 (2006)
9.8 inhabitants / km²
main place Arai
Map of Mitiaro
Map of Mitiaro

Mitiaro , also known as Nukuroa , is the fourth largest in the southern Cook Islands .

It is located about 37 km northeast of Mauke , which together with Mitiaro and Atiu forms the Nga Pu Toru archipelago (about The Three Roots ) within the South Islands. Mitiaro is a typical upscale atoll with a ring of dead coral that is characteristic of the South Islands. The interior of the island is largely flat and has two brackish water lakes, Rotonui and Rotoiti . Mitiaro has a diameter of 6.4 km, an area of ​​about 22 km² and had 219 inhabitants at the last official census (2006), who mainly live in the settlements of Takaue and Arai.

There are four villages, before there was a fifth, in close proximity on the western side of the island, from north to south:

  1. Taurangi (former village)
  2. Arai (also Atai)
  3. Auta
  4. Mangarei
  5. Takaue

Mitiaro alone is not subdivided into traditional tapere among the inhabited upscale atolls of the southern Cook Islands .

Mitiaro does not have a port, but has an airport, Mitiaro or Nukuroa Airport ( IATA code : MOI, ICAO code : NCMR), which is only served by Air Rarotonga .

The main export products Mitiaros are Itiki, an endemic eels , and Tiporo a Limettenart ; however, the residents mostly live from tourism or as self-sufficiency .

The first European on Mitiaro was the missionary John Williams , who visited the island on July 20, 1823 with the Endeavor (not to be confused with James Cook 's ship of the same name).

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