Tepoto Sud

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Tepoto Sud
NASA image from Tepoto
NASA image by Tepoto
Waters Pacific Ocean
archipelago Tuamotu Archipelago
Geographical location 16 ° 49 ′  S , 144 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 49 ′  S , 144 ° 17 ′  W
Tepoto Sud (French Polynesia)
Tepoto Sud
Number of islands -
Land area 60 ha
Lagoon area 2.5 km²
Residents uninhabited
Location of Tepoto Sud (8)
Location of Tepoto Sud (8)
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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 .

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