Puka-Puka
Puka-Puka is a small inhabited coral atoll in the north-eastern Tuamotu Archipelago, sometimes included as a member of the Disappointment Islands. This atoll is quite isolated, the nearest land being Fakahina, 182 km to the southwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 166 residents
- Description: atoll in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Dog Island”, “Henuake”, “Honden”, “Honden Eiland”, “Mahina Te”, “Puaga”, “Puka Puka”, “Puka-puka Island”, and “Pukapuka”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Puka-Puka Airport.
Puka-Puka Airport
Aerodrome
Puka-Puka Airport is an airport on Puka-Puka in French Polynesia. The airport is 3 km northeast of the village of Teonemahina. The airport is extremely vulnerable to climate change caused sea level rise.
Puka-Puka
- Category: atoll
- Location: French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-14.81985° or 14° 49′ 12″ southLongitude
-138.81883° or 138° 49′ 8″ westPopulation
166Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)IATA airport code
PKPUnited Nations Location Code
PF PKPOpen location code
54Q355JJ+3FOpenStreetMap ID
way 138156184OpenStreetMap feature
natural=atollOpenStreetMap feature
place=atoll
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Mari—“Puka-Puka” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Puka Puka”
- Asturian: “Puka-Puka”
- Azerbaijani: “Puka-Puka”
- Belarusian: “Пукапука (Французская Палінезія)”
- Belarusian: “Пукапука”
- Catalan: “Puka Puka”
- Cebuano: “Atoll Pukapuka”
- Chinese: “普卡普卡岛”
- Chinese: “普卡普卡島”
- Chinese: “普卡普卡环礁”
- Czech: “Puka-Puka”
- Dutch: “Puka Puka (Tuamotueilanden)”
- Dutch: “Puka Puka”
- Esperanto: “Puka-Puka”
- Estonian: “Puka-Puka”
- Finnish: “Puka-Puka”
- French: “Puka Puka”
- French: “Puka-Puka”
- French: “Pukapuka”
- Galician: “Atol Puka Puka”
- Galician: “Puka Puka”
- German: “Puka-Puka”
- Hebrew: “פוקה פוקה”
- Hungarian: “Puka-Puka”
- Italian: “Puka Puka”
- Italian: “Puka-Puka”
- Japanese: “プカ＝プカ環礁”
- Japanese: “プカプカ環礁（フランス領ポリネシア）”
- Japanese: “プカプカ環礁”
- Korean: “푸카푸카섬”
- Latvian: “Pukapuka”
- Lithuanian: “Puka Puka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Puka Puka”
- Norwegian: “Puka Puka”
- Polish: “Puka Puka”
- Polish: “Pukapuka”
- Portuguese: “Puka-Puka”
- Russian: “Пука-Пука”
- Russian: “Пукапука”
- Slovak: “Puka-Puka”
- Spanish: “Puka Puka”
- Spanish: “Puka-Puka”
- Swahili: “Puka-Puka”
- Swedish: “Puka-Puka”
- Tahitian: “Puka Puka”
- Western Mari: “Пука-Пука”
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