Arutua
Sign in to saveArutua, or Ngaru-atua is an atoll in the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. It is located 40 km SW of Rangiroa. The closest land is Apataki Atoll, only 16 km to the East.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Arutua is referenced by 125 other articles, and connects out to commune of France, Tuamotus and France.
The entry is geolocated on the map in isle_region, across 4 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Atolls of the Tuamotus and Communes of French Polynesia.
Its subject is documented across 26 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Arutua
- Islands.image_name
- Arutua2.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- NASA picture of Arutua Atoll
- Islands.map
- French Polynesia
- Islands.location
- Pacific Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Tuamotus
- Islands.area_km2
- 484
- Islands.area_footnotes
- (lagoon) (above water)
- Islands.length_km
- 31
- Islands.width_km
- 24
- Islands.country
- France
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Overseas collectivity
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- French Polynesia
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_2
- Commune
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_2
- Arutua
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Administrative subdivision
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Îles Tuamotu-Gambier
- Islands.country_largest_city
- Rautini
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- atoll
- Part of
- Palliser Islands
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Arutua
- Area
- 484
- Time zone
- UTC−10:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Arutua2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Arutua
- located in/on physical feature
- Tuamotus
- time of discovery or invention
- 1722-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Administration
- Demographics
- Images and maps
- References
- External links
Arutua, or Ngaru-atua is an atoll in the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. It is located 40 km SW of Rangiroa. The closest land is Apataki Atoll, only 16 km to the East.
Arutua Atoll has a roughly pentagonal shape. Length , width . The lagoon area is and the land area is . Its lagoon is wide and deep with one navigable passage. , Arutua had a population of 680 inhabitants. The main village is Rautini. There is a small airport at Arutua which was opened in 1984.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arutua” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
4 mapped locations