Mont Rotui
| Mont Rotui | ||
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 Mont Rotui as seen from Le Belvédère . Left the Baie d'Opunohu |
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| height | 899 m | |
| location | Moorea , French Polynesia | |
| Coordinates | 17 ° 30 ′ 31 ″ S , 149 ° 50 ′ 26 ″ W | |
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| rock | basalt | |
| Age of the rock | 1.5 - 2 million years | |
Mont Rotui is a mountain in the north of the island of Moorea in the Archipelago of the Society Islands in French Polynesia . With a height of 899 m, it is the second highest point on the island after Mont Tohiea and forms a prominent peninsula that separates the two largest bays on the island, Baie de Cook and Baie d'Opunohu . The elevation is of volcanic origin and, like almost all Society Islands, consists of basalt .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ V. Cloutard, A. Bonneville: Ages of seamounts, islands and plateaus on the Pacific plate, Paris 2004
- ↑ Geochemistry and Light Element Systematics of Moorea , bibcode : 2002AGUSM.V51A..07H (English)