Key facts
- Archipelago
- Society Islands
- Area
- 2.829 km (1.092 sq mi)
- Overseas collectivity
- French Polynesia
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Motu One, also known as Bellinghausen, is an atoll in the Leeward group of the Society Islands, in the South Pacific. Motu One is located 550 km northwest from Tahiti and 72 km northeast of Manuae, its closest neighbor.
Motu One's reef encloses totally a lagoon without a pass. All of its sides are covered with low, wooded sandy islands except for its southern side. Motu One means Sand Island in Tahitian, that is a low-lying, sandy islet that cannot sustain permanent human habitation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Motu One” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.