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Merir

Merir, or Melieli, is a small outlying of the group, in the western Pacific Ocean. The island has an area of 0.90 square kilometres and is very long and narrow, stretching approximately 2.4 kilometres from north to south but only approximately 667 metres at its widest point.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island
  • Also known as: “Bur”, “Current Island”, “Isle du Courant”, “Mariere Islands”, “Meliel”, “Meriel”, “Merieres”, “Meril”, “Merir Island”, “Meriru To”, “Meriru-shō”, “Palolo”, “Paolo”, “Paulo Mariere”, “Pulo”, “Pulo Maria”, “Pulo Marier”, “Pulo Mariera”, “Pulo Mariere”, “Pulo Marriere”, “Warren Hastings”, and “Warren Hastings Island”

Merir

Latitude
4.31338° or 4° 18′ 48″ north
Longitude
132.31101° or 132° 18′ 40″ east
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
6QPJ8876+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 519130846
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
1559407
Wiki­data ID
Q1282187
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Satellite Map

Discover Merir from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Merir” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميرير”
  • Bulgarian: “Мерир”
  • Cebuano: “Merir”
  • Chinese: “梅里爾島”
  • Dutch: “Merir”
  • French: “Melieli”
  • French: “Merir”
  • German: “Merir”
  • Italian: “Merir”
  • Japanese: “メリール島”
  • Lithuanian: “Meriras”
  • Macedonian: “Мерир”
  • Palauan: “Merir”
  • Polish: “Merir”
  • Russian: “Мерир”
  • Sonsorol: “Melieli”
  • Spanish: “Merir”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Merir”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.