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Tahiti location map.png Module:Location map/data/Tahiti is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Tahiti . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
On 2 April 1768 [6] Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, completing the first French circumnavigation in La Boudeuse and Étoile, landed in Matavai Bay.He stayed about ten days on the island, which he called “Nouvelle-Cythère“, or "New Cythera", because of the warm welcome he had received and the sweetness of the Tahitian customs.
A map of Tetiʻaroa based on a map made in 1933. Tetiʻaroa is administratively part of the commune of Arue, whose main part is in the northeastern part of Tahiti.The atoll is located 53 kilometres (33 mi) north of Tahiti.
Makatea in French Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean – the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Nauru. The terrain consists of a mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs. It is made up of six archipelagos. The largest and most populated island is Tahiti, in the Society ...
Tahiti (English: / t ə ˈ h iː t i / ⓘ; Tahitian, ; [2] [3] French:) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. It is located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean and the nearest major landmass is the North Island of New Zealand .
Pāʻea is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, themselves part of the Society Islands. [3] At the 2022 census it had a population of 12,756. [2] Tahiti's west coast freeway runs through Pāʻea and ends in Teahupoʻo down south. Going northbound would take drivers toward Papeʻete.
Māhina is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, themselves part of the Society Islands. Māhina is the 5th most populous commune in French Polynesia with a population of 14,623 (2022 census), [ 2 ] in an area of 52 km 2 . [ 3 ]
Fakarava, Havaiki-te-araro, Havai'i or Farea [2] is an atoll in the west of the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia.It is the second largest of the Tuamotu atolls. The nearest land is Toau, a coral atoll which lies 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) to the northwest.