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Mehetia
Mehetia or Meetia is a volcanic island in the Windward Islands, in the east of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is a very young active stratovolcano east of the Taiarapu Peninsula of Tahiti. It belongs to the Teahitia-Mehetia hotspot.
Tikei
Tikei, also known as Manu, Tikai and Tiku is an island in the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. Tikei is not a typical Tuamotu atoll, as its former lagoon filled in. The island is long, wide, and has a land area of . Its highest elevation is above sea level.
Marotiri
thumb|left|Southern rock of Marotiri Marotiri is a group of four uninhabited volcanic rocks protruding from the sea (and several submerged rocks), forming the southeastern end of the Austral Islands of French Polynesia. Marotiri is also known as Bass Rocks (Îlots de Bass in French), after the European explorer George Bass who discovered them in either late 1801 or early 1802 but whom had since erroneously deemed them the long lost Four Crowns of Quiros:
Eiao
Eiao is the largest of the extreme northwestern Marquesas Islands. The island is uninhabited, but is administratively part of the commune (municipality) of Nuku-Hiva, itself in the administrative subdivision of the Marquesas Islands.
Motutunga
Motutunga Atoll is an uninhabited atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It is located 17 km to the east of Tahanea Atoll.
Hatutu
Hatutu (also called Hatuta‘a) is a small island approximately 3 km (2 mi.) northeast of Eiao in the northern Marquesas Islands. It is approximately 3 km (2 mi) from Eiao by a channel 50 meters deep. It was also known by the names Hancock, Chanal, Langdon, and Nexsen
Tahanea
Tahanea Atoll is an uninhabited atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It is located to the east of Faaite Atoll.
Vahanga
thumb|300px|Map of Vahanga
Motu Iti
island of the northern Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia
Mohotani
Mohotani (sometimes spelt Moho Tani; also called Molopu or Motane) is an uninhabited island southeast of Hiva Oa and east of Tahuata in the southern Marquesas Islands. It has an area of 15 km2. Much of the island's sparse vegetation has been destroyed by feral goats and sheep, to the extent that following its rare rains, the sea around it is stained red from runoff. Early reports describes the island as fertile, with forest and fields. When Thor Heyerdahl visited the island in 1938, there were only a few goats and remains of deserted huts and villages.
Hiti
Hiti, or Hiti-rau-mea, is a small atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It is located 19 km southwest of Makemo Atoll.
Ahunui
Ahunui or Nga-taumanga is a small atoll of the eastern Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It is located 55 km SSE of Paraoa Atoll and 120 km WSW of Vairaatea.
Matureivavao
thumb|300px|right|Map of Matureivavao Atoll. Matureivavao, or Maturei-vavao is an uninhabited atoll in the Acteon Group in the southeastern part of the Tuamotu Islands. It is the largest atoll within the Acteon Group, and like others in this group, is administratively part of the commune of the Gambier Islands.
Tenararo
thumb|300px|right|Map of Tenararo Atoll
Tekokota
Tekokota is one of the Central Tuamotu atolls, located close to the geographic center of the archipelago.
Tenarunga
thumb|300px|right|Map of Tenarunga Atoll Tenarunga or Tenania, previously Narunga and formerly Minto Island, is a low, wooded atoll in the Acteon Group in the southeastern part of the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia. It is administratively a part of the Gambier Islands. The atoll has a population of between 10 and 50 people.
Rekareka
Rekareka, Tehuata or Tu-henua, is an atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It is located in the Centre East of the group, 83 km southeast from Raroia, and lies 70 km NW of Tauere, its nearest neighbor. The shoal water of this small atoll extends 0.8 km seaward from its northern, western, and southern sides, and about 1.3 km from its south-eastern side. Rekareka has no fresh water and is uninhabited.
Raraka
Raraka, or Te Marie, is an atoll in the west of the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. It lies 17 km to the southeast of Kauehi Atoll.
Kamaka
island
Motu One
island in French Polynesia
Fatu Huku
island
Ravahere
Ravahere is an atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It is located 53 km northwest of Nengonengo Atoll and it is separated by a 2 km sound from Marokau Atoll, its closest neighbor to the north.
Morane
island in French Polynesia
Motu Nao
island in French Polynesia
Temoe
Temoe, or Te Moe, is a small atoll of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia. It is located in the far southeast of the Tuamotu group archipelago. It lies about 37 km southeast from the Gambier Islands and more than southeast from Mataiva, at the other end of the Tuamotu archipelago.
Terihi
Terihi is a small, uninhabited, rocky island in the Marquesas Islands, less than southeast from Mohotani. It has an area of and a coastline of .
Angakauitai
Angakauitai is an island of the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia. It has an area of 0.7 km2 (0.27 sq mi) and its highest point is at 139 m. It is administratively a part of the Gambier Islands. It is uninhabited.
Makaroa
Makaroa is an island in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia, 8.5 km south of Mangareva within the same lagoon. Makaroa is about in length and has a small rocky islet off its NW point.
Manui
thumb|right|250px|Manui island Manui is an island of the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia.
Mekiro
right|thumb|250px|Mekiro island Mekiro is an island of the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia. The islands of Gambier also include Mangareva, Taravai, Agakauitai, Akamaru, Aukena and Kamakawhich. Mangareva is the largest island of the whole Gambier Islands archipelago.
Motu Oa
small island in the northern Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia
Kouaku
thumb|right|250px| View from Kouaku Island across the lagoon to the Gambier Islands Akamaru, Mangareva and Aukena Kouaku is an island of the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia.
Tauna
Tauna is an islet in the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia.
Tepapuri
thumb|View of Tepapuri Island
Tekava
thumb|View of Tekava Island