Tuanake
Sign in to saveTuanake or Mata-rua-puna is a small atoll located in the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It made up the Raevski Islands subgroup with Tepoto Sud and Hiti. It is administratively attached to the municipality of Makemo.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Tuanake
- Islands.image_name
- Tuanake.JPG
- Islands.image_caption
- NASA picture of Tuanake Atoll
- Islands.map
- French Polynesia
- Islands.location
- Pacific Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Tuamotus
- Islands.area_km2
- 26
- Islands.area_footnotes
- (lagoon) (above water)
- Islands.length_km
- 9.5
- Islands.width_km
- 6.5
- Islands.country
- France
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- Overseas collectivity
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- French Polynesia
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- Commune
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_2
- Makemo
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- Administrative subdivision
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Tuamotus
- Islands.population
- 6
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- Population
- 0
- Area
- 38.1
- Image
- Tuanake.JPG
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- 1820-07-15
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Tuanake or Mata-rua-puna is a small atoll located in the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It made up the Raevski Islands subgroup with Tepoto Sud and Hiti. It is administratively attached to the municipality of Makemo.
==Geography== Tuanake is located west of Hiti, the nearest island, and 545 km east of Tahiti. It is a small semi-circular atoll in length and in maximum width for an emerged area of . Its lagoon is accessible by a very shallow pass located to the south.
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