Tepoto North

Tepoto North
	NASA image of Tepoto Nord
Waters	Pacific Ocean
Archipelago	Tuamotu Archipelago
Geographical location	14 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 141 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 14 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 141 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W
length	2.6 km
width	800 m
surface	2 km²
Residents	44 (2007) ; 22 inhabitants / km²
	Map of Tepoto Nord

Tepoto Nord also Te Poto , Toho or Pukapoto is an upscale atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia . Napuka , 16 km southeast, is the closest to the island. Tepoto Nord is 2.6 km long by 800 m wide. To avoid confusion with an island of the same name, Tepoto Sud , 400 km to the south , the island was given the addition North . The atoll belongs to the Îles du Désappointement , administratively to the municipality of Napuka .

history

Tepoto Nord was discovered in 1519 by Ferdinand Magellan , who could not find any water on the island or on the neighboring atoll Napuka to continue his journey. This is how the two arid islands got their European name “Islands of Disappointment”.

In the middle of the 19th century, the atoll was visited by an American research expedition under Charles Wilkes .

Tehekega is the most important place on the island, which is almost exclusively inhabited by Polynesians .

Web links

Short description and picture of the atoll (Engl.) ( Memento of 23 December 2010 at the Internet Archive )
Census 2007 (PDF, French) ( Memento from February 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Derivation of the atoll name
American Research Expedition (English) ,
Charles Wilkes (Eng.)