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French Polynesia

Fangataufa

Fangataufa is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in . The atoll has been fully owned by the French state since 1964.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: island in French Polynesia
  • Also known as: “Ahunui”, “Atoll Fagataufa”, “Cockburn Island”, “Fagataufa”, “Fangatau”, “Fangataufa Island”, and “Île Cockburn”

Fangataufa

Latitude
-22.23911° or 22° 14′ 21″ south
Longitude
-138.74712° or 138° 44′ 50″ west
Open location code
5493Q763+95
Open­Street­Map ID
way 138626521
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­atoll
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­atoll
Geo­Names ID
4030658
Wiki­data ID
Q506815
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Satellite Map

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

From Asturian to Western Mari—“Fangataufa” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Fangataufa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fanqataufa”
  • Basque: “Fangataufa”
  • Breton: “Fangataufa”
  • Bulgarian: “Фангатауфа”
  • Catalan: “Fangataufa”
  • Cebuano: “Atoll Fangataufa”
  • Chinese: “方阿陶法环礁”
  • Czech: “Fangataufa”
  • Dutch: “Fangataufa”
  • Finnish: “Fangataufa”
  • French: “Fangataufa”
  • Galician: “Atol Fangataufa”
  • German: “Fangataufa”
  • Hebrew: “פנגטאופה”
  • Italian: “Fangataufa”
  • Japanese: “ファンガタウファ環礁”
  • Latvian: “Fanataufa”
  • Lithuanian: “Fangataufa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fangataufa”
  • Norwegian: “Fangataufa”
  • Polish: “Fangataufa”
  • Portuguese: “Fangataufa”
  • Russian: “Фангатауфа”
  • Slovak: “Fangataufa”
  • Spanish: “Fangataufa”
  • Swahili: “Fangataufa”
  • Tahitian: “Fangataufa”
  • Ukrainian: “Фангатауфа”
  • Western Mari: “Фангатауфа”

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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 “Fangataufa”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.