Key facts
- Location
- South Pacific Ocean
- Archipelago
- Marquesas Islands
- Area
- 316 km (122 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 1,213 m (3980 ft)
- Highest point
- Temetiu
- Overseas country
- French Polynesia
- Population
- 2,190 (2012)
- Pop density
- 6.9/km (17.9/sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
With its 320 square kilometres (124 square miles), Hiva Oa (Marquesan: Hivaʻoa) is the second largest island in the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is the largest island of the southern Marquesas group. Around 2,200 people reside on the island. A volcano, Temetiu, is Hiva Oa's highest point, reaching an elevation of 1,269 m (4,163 ft.)
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hiva-Oa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.