Taenga
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Taenga, or Taunga-hara, is one of the Tuamotu atolls in French Polynesia. It is located 32 km to the northeast of Makemo Atoll and 27 km to the northwest of Nihiru Atoll.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Taenga
- Islands.image_name
- Taenga.JPG
- Islands.image_caption
- NASA picture of Taenga Atoll
- Islands.map
- French Polynesia
- Islands.location
- Pacific Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Tuamotus
- Islands.area_km2
- 140
- Islands.area_footnotes
- (lagoon) (above water)
- Islands.length_km
- 27
- Islands.width_km
- 11
- 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
- Makemo
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Administrative subdivision
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Tuamotus
- Islands.population
- 65
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- atoll
- Part of
- Tuamotus
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Makemo
- Population
- 96
- Area
- 140
- Time zone
- UTC−10:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Taenga.JPG
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1803-03-10
- Commons category
- Taenga
- located in/on physical feature
- Tuamotus
- native label
- Taenga
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Encyclopedic overview
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Taenga, or Taunga-hara, is one of the Tuamotu atolls in French Polynesia. It is located 32 km to the northeast of Makemo Atoll and 27 km to the northwest of Nihiru Atoll.
Taenga Atoll is roughly triangular in shape. It measures 27 km in length with a maximum width of 11 km.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taenga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations