Tepoto Sud
Tepoto Sud | ||
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NASA image by Tepoto | ||
Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
archipelago | Tuamotu Archipelago | |
Geographical location | 16 ° 49 ′ S , 144 ° 17 ′ W | |
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Number of islands | - | |
Land area | 60 ha | |
Lagoon area | 2.5 km² | |
Residents | uninhabited | |
Location of Tepoto Sud (8) |
Tepoto Sud , also called Ti Poto , is an atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia . Tepoto Sud is located 44 km southwest of the Makemo -Atoll. The comparatively small atoll has a round shape with a diameter of about 3.8 km and a land area of only 0.6 km². The 2.5 km² large lagoon has navigable access to the sea in the northeast. The atoll received its addition Sud to separate it from an atoll of the same name 400 km away in the north, Tepoto Nord . Tepoto Sud belongs administratively to the municipality Makemo and there to the sub-municipality ( "Commune associées" ) Katiu .
Tepoto Sud forms together with the atolls Hiti and Tuanake the group of Raevski atolls . Just like on the other two atolls, the Polynesian earth dove ( Gallicolumba erythroptera ) and the Tuamotu warbler ( Acrocephalus atyphus ) are at home here.
The island was first sighted by the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville in 1768, but was first stepped on in 1820 by the German Baltic seafarer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen .
Web links
- Picture and short description ( memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- History (English)
- Tuamoto reed warbler (English)
- Polynesian Earth Dove (PDF) (142 kB)