Tikehau
Sign in to savethumb Tikehau (meaning Peaceful Landing in Tuamotuan) or Porutu-kai is a coral atoll in the Palliser Islands group, part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It is included in the commune of Rangiroa.
Key facts
- Islands.population
- 529
- Islands.area_km2
- 461
- Islands.name
- Tikehau
- Islands.image_name
- TikehauISS008-E-17132.PNG
- Islands.image_caption
- Satellite photograph of Tikehau Atoll.
- Islands.image_size
- 220px
- Islands.map
- French Polynesia
- Islands.native_name_link
- French
- Islands.location
- Pacific Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Tuamotus
- Islands.area_footnotes
- (lagoon) (above water)
- Islands.length_km
- 27
- Islands.width_km
- 19
- Islands.elevation_m
- 8
- Islands.country
- France
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Overseas collectivity
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- French Polynesia
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_2
- Commune
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thumb Tikehau (meaning Peaceful Landing in Tuamotuan) or Porutu-kai is a coral atoll in the Palliser Islands group, part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It is included in the commune of Rangiroa.
==History== The first recorded European to arrive to Tikehau was the Russian mariner Otto von Kotzebue. He called this atoll Krusenstern Island, after Russian explorer Adam Johann von Krusenstern. The Wilkes Expedition passed by this atoll on 9 September 1839.