Terihi

Terihi
Aerial photo from a height of five kilometers (top left is the southeastern part of the much larger neighboring island of Mohotane )
Waters	Pacific Ocean
Archipelago	Marquesas
Geographical location	10 ° 1 ′ 5 ″  S , 138 ° 48 ′ 8 ″  W Coordinates: 10 ° 1 ′ 5 ″  S , 138 ° 48 ′ 8 ″  W
length	1.146 km
width	483 m
surface	15 ha
Highest elevation	(unnamed) 245  m
Residents	uninhabited
Location of Terihi

Terihi is an uninhabited island in the eastern Pacific Ocean , geographically part of the Marquesas archipelago and politically part of the municipality of Hiva Oa in French Polynesia . It is a small side island of Mohotane with an area of ​​0.15 km² and is located 300 meters southeast of it. The rocky island, rising 245 meters from the sea, is hardly accessible because of the heavy surf and the steep coast. The flora is sparse, it consists mainly of the robust grass Eragrostis xerophila and the low growing nightshade family Nicotiana fragrans var. Fatuhivensis , an endemic to Fatu Hiva and Mohotane.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean-Ives Meyer: L'île de Mohotane (Motane): état de la biodiversité et principales menaces; Contribution à la Biodiversité de la Polynésie française No. 3 , Papeete 1996, p. 16