Mangareva
Mangareva is the central and largest island of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia. It is surrounded by smaller islands: Taravai in the southwest, Aukena and Akamaru in the southeast, and islands in the north.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: central and largest island of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Ile Mangareva”, “Île Mangareva”, “Magareva”, “Mangarava”, “Mangareva Island”, “Mangarewa”, and “Peard Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cathedral of Saint Michael and Mount Duff.
Cathedral of Saint Michael
Church
Mount Duff
Peak
Mount Duff, also called Auorotini in the Mangarevan language, is the highest peak on the island of Mangareva in the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia. It has an elevation of 441 m. Mount Duff is situated 3 km south of Mangareva.
Rumarei
Islet
Rumarei is an island of the Gambier Islands of French Polynesia. Rumarei is a small, uninhabited coral islet in the Gambier Islands archipelago of French Polynesia, part of the broader Tuamotu-Gambier administrative subdivision in the South Pacific Ocean. Rumarei is situated 2½ km southwest of Mangareva.
Mangareva
- Categories: volcanic island and landform
- Location: Tuamotu-Gambier Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-23.10224° or 23° 6′ 8″ south
Longitude
-134.96703° or 134° 58′ 1″ west
Population
1,240
Elevation
134 metres (440 feet)
Open location code
5487V2XM+45
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Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Mari—“Mangareva” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mangareva”
- Basque: “Mangareva”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Мангарэва”
- Belarusian: “Мангарэва”
- Catalan: “Mangareva”
- Cebuano: “Île Mangareva”
- Chinese: “芒阿雷瓦岛”
- Czech: “Mangareva”
- Dutch: “Mangareva”
- Estonian: “Mangareva”
- Finnish: “Mangareva”
- French: “île Mangareva”
- French: “Mangareva”
- Galician: “Illa Mangareva”
- German: “Mangareva”
- Hebrew: “מנגארווה”
- Icelandic: “Mangareva”
- Indonesian: “Mangareva”
- Italian: “Mangareva”
- Japanese: “マンガレヴァ島”
- Lithuanian: “Mangareva”
- Luxembourgish: “Angauru”
- Luxembourgish: “Mangareva”
- Luxembourgish: “Peard‘s Island (Beechey)”
- Luxembourgish: “Peard”
- Luxembourgish: “Raroata”
- Macedonian: “Мангарева”
- Northern Frisian: “Mangareva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mangareva”
- Norwegian: “Mangareva”
- Persian: “مانگاروا”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Mangareva”
- Polish: “Mangareva”
- Portuguese: “Mangareva”
- Russian: “Мангарева”
- Slovenian: “Mangareva”
- Spanish: “Mangareva”
- Swedish: “Mangareva”
- Tahitian: “Ma’areva”
- Ukrainian: “Мангарева”
- Urdu: “مانگاریوا”
- Western Mari: “Мангарева”
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