Fatu Hiva
Sign in to saveFatu-Hiva (the "H" is not pronounced, see name section below) is the southernmost island of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. With Motu Nao as its closest neighbour, it is also the most isolated of the inhabited islands.
Key facts
- French commune.name
- Fatu-Hiva
- French commune.commune status
- Commune
- French commune.adjustable map
- Fatu-Hiva.png
- French commune.map caption
- Location of the commune (in red) within the Marquesas Islands
- French commune.administrative subdivision
- Marquesas Islands
- French commune.utc offset
- −09:30
- French commune.INSEE
- 98718
- French commune.postal code
- 98740
- French commune.mayor
- Henri Tuieinui
- French commune.term
- 2020–2026
- French commune.elevation min m
- 0
- French commune.elevation max m
- 1125
- French commune.area km2
- 85
- French commune.population
- 600
- French commune.population date
- 2022
- French commune.image flag
- Flag of Fatu-Hiva.svg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Fatu-Hiva
- Capital
- Omoa
- Population
- 587
- Area
- 84
- Time zone
- UTC−09:30
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Fatuhivaküste.jpg
- Width
- 9
- Length
- 16
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1595-07-21
- native label
- Fatu Hiva
- Commons category
- Fatu-Hiva
- topic's main category
- Category:Fatu-Hiva
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- First settlers
- European exploration and colonization
- Geography
- Geology
- Flora
- Fauna
- Administration
- Demographics
- Religion
- Economy
- Tourism
- Politics and government
- Infrastructure
- Fatu Hiva in literature
- See also
- References
Fatu-Hiva (the "H" is not pronounced, see name section below) is the southernmost island of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. With Motu Nao as its closest neighbour, it is also the most isolated of the inhabited islands.
Fatu Hiva is also the title of a book by explorer and archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl, in which he describes his stay on the island in the 1930s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fatu Hiva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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