Polynesia
French Polynesia
Îles Tuamotu-Gambier

Moruroa Atoll

Moruroa, also historically known as Aopuni, is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is located about 1,250 kilometres southeast of .
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: island in French Polynesia
  • Also known as: “Braburgh”, “Île de l’Évêque d’Osnaburgh”, “Maruroa”, “Matilda Island”, “Matilda Islands”, “Moruroa”, “Moruroa Islands”, “Mururea”, “Mururoa”, “Mururua”, “Osnaburg”, “Osnaburg Island”, and “Osnaburgh Islands”

Moruroa Atoll

Latitude
-21.83512° or 21° 50′ 6″ south
Longitude
-138.91034° or 138° 54′ 37″ west
IATA airport code
UOA
Open location code
54C3537Q+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 139095882
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­atoll
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­atoll
Geo­Names ID
4030582
Wiki­data ID
Q318446
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Satellite Map

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

From Arabic to Xhosa—“Moruroa Atoll” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة موروروا”
  • Asturian: “Mururoa”
  • Basque: “Mururoa”
  • Breton: “Moruroa”
  • Breton: “Mururoa”
  • Bulgarian: “Моруроа”
  • Bulgarian: “Муроруа”
  • Bulgarian: “Муруроа”
  • Catalan: “Moruroa”
  • Catalan: “Mururoa”
  • Cebuano: “Atoll Mururoa”
  • Chinese: “穆魯羅阿環礁”
  • Chinese: “穆鲁罗瓦环礁”
  • Chinese: “穆鲁罗阿环礁”
  • Croatian: “Mururoa”
  • Czech: “Mururoa”
  • Dutch: “Moruroa”
  • Dutch: “Mururoa”
  • Esperanto: “Moruroa”
  • Esperanto: “Mururoa”
  • Estonian: “Moruroa”
  • Estonian: “Mururoa”
  • Finnish: “Moruroa”
  • Finnish: “Mururoa”
  • French: “Aopuni”
  • French: “Atoll Mururoa”
  • French: “Atoll Mururua”
  • French: “Île Mururoa”
  • French: “Îles Mururoa”
  • French: “Moruroa”
  • French: “Mururoa”
  • Galician: “Atol Mururoa”
  • Galician: “Moruroa”
  • Galician: “Mururoa”
  • Georgian: “მურუროა”
  • German: “Moruroa”
  • German: “Mururoa-Atoll”
  • German: “Mururoa”
  • Hebrew: “מורורואה”
  • Hungarian: “Mururoa”
  • Italian: “Moruroa”
  • Italian: “Mururoa”
  • Japanese: “ムルロア環礁”
  • Korean: “무루로아 환초”
  • Latvian: “Moruroa”
  • Lithuanian: “Moruroa”
  • Lithuanian: “Mururoa”
  • Malay: “Moruroa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Moruroa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mururoa”
  • Norwegian: “Mururoa”
  • Polish: “atol Mururoa”
  • Polish: “Mururoa”
  • Portuguese: “Atol de Moruroa”
  • Portuguese: “Atol de mururoa”
  • Portuguese: “Atol Moruroa”
  • Portuguese: “Moruroa”
  • Romanian: “Mururoa”
  • Russian: “Моруроа”
  • Russian: “Муруроа”
  • Serbian: “Mururoa”
  • Serbian: “Mururura”
  • Serbian: “Муруроа”
  • Slovak: “Mururoa”
  • Slovenian: “Moruroa”
  • Slovenian: “Mururoa”
  • Spanish: “Moruroa”
  • Spanish: “Mururoa”
  • Swahili: “Moruroa”
  • Swedish: “Moruroa”
  • Swedish: “Mururoa”
  • Tahitian: “Moruroa”
  • Ukrainian: “Атол Муруроа”
  • Ukrainian: “Моруроа”
  • Ukrainian: “Муруроа”
  • Western Mari: “Муруроа”
  • Xhosa: “Mururoa”

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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 “Moruroa Atoll”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.