Fangataufa
Sign in to saveFangataufa (or Fangatafoa) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. The atoll has been fully owned by the French state since 1964. From 1966 to 1996 it was used as a nuclear test site by the French government. In total, 4 atmospheric and 10 underground nuclear explosions were carried out on the atoll.
Key facts
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- Fangataufa
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- Satellite view of Fangataufa Atoll showing the dark blue depths of the induced crater. Courtesy NASA.
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- French Polynesia
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- Pacific Ocean
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- Tuamotus
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- 45
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- (lagoon) (above water)
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- 9.5
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- 9.5
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- France
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- Overseas collectivity
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- French Polynesia
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- Commune
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- Tureia
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- Tuamotus
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- Uninhabited
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- Population
- 0
- Area
- 5
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-00-00
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Fangataufa (or Fangatafoa) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. The atoll has been fully owned by the French state since 1964. From 1966 to 1996 it was used as a nuclear test site by the French government. In total, 4 atmospheric and 10 underground nuclear explosions were carried out on the atoll.
==Geography== The atoll is a coral outgrowth of a seamount which rises some from the seafloor, to a depth of . The seamount was formed 33.4 - 34.7 million years ago by the Pitcairn hotspot. The island is approx. long and wide. It has a lagoon area of and a land area of . It is located south of Moruroa atoll, east of Tematangi, southwest of the Gambier Islands and southeast of Tahiti.
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