Tuvana-i-Ra

Tuvana-i-Ra
NASA image of Tuvana-i-Ra (left) and Tuvana-i-Colo (right)
Waters	Pacific Ocean
archipelago	Lau Islands
Geographical location	21 ° 2 ′  S , 178 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 21 ° 2 ′  S , 178 ° 51 ′  W
Number of islands	1
length	2.8 km
width	2.3 km
Land area	70 ha
total area	4.5 km²
Residents	uninhabited

Tuvana-i-Ra is an uninhabited atoll in the southeast of the island state of Fiji in the Pacific Ocean . It is the southernmost atoll of the Lau archipelago and represents the second southernmost landmass of Fiji; only the remote and uninhabited atoll Ceva-i-Ra lies slightly further south.

geography

Tuvana-i-Ra is about 30 km southwest of Ono-i-Lau , the southernmost inhabited atoll in Fiji, and 8 km west-southwest of the neighboring atoll Tuvana-i-Colo . It is an elliptically shaped atoll with dimensions of around 2.8 × 2.3 kilometers and a densely vegetated, around 1.2 km long and 0.7 km² large island in the center of the lagoon . There are no islands on the fringing reef .

Web links

• Map of Fiji , on which Tuvana-i-Ra and Tuvana-i-Colo are also recorded (PDF; English; 6.6 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sailing Directions Enroute  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pub. 126 Pacific Islands (PDF; English)  
2. ↑ Coral Reefs of the World, Vol. 3 (excerpt; English)