Nuku Hiva Island
Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas country of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Adams”, “Baux”, “Madison Island”, “Marchand Island”, “Nuka Hiva”, “Nukahiva”, “Nuku Hiva”, “Nukuheva”, “Nuuhiva”, and “Sir Henry Martin’s”
- Historically known as: “Nookhiva”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aʻakapa and Hatihe’u.
Aʻakapa
Village
Aʻakapa is a small village on Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas Islands. It lies on Aʻakapa Bay. Aʻakapa is situated 4½ km north of Nuku Hiva Island.
Hatihe’u
Village
Hatihe'u is a village in Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas Islands. It lies on the bay of the same name and is also the name of an "amphitheater-shaped valley on the northeast side of the island". Hatihe’u is situated 6 km northeast of Nuku Hiva Island.
Fort Madison, Nuku Hiva
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fort Madison, on Nuku Hiva at Taioha'e Bay, was the first naval base of the United States in the Pacific Ocean. It was built by Commodore David Porter in October and November 1813, during the Nuku Hiva Campaign of the War of 1812, for protecting the settlement of Madisonville from British and Marquesan attacks. Fort Madison, Nuku Hiva is situated 7 km southeast of Nuku Hiva Island.
Nuku Hiva Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Mari—“Nuku Hiva Island” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Nuku Hiva”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Нуку-Хіва”
- Belarusian: “Нуку-Хіва”
- Catalan: “Nuku Hiva”
- Cebuano: “Nuku Hiva Island”
- Chinese: “努库希瓦岛”
- Chinese: “努庫希瓦島”
- Chinese: “努庫黑瓦”
- Czech: “Nuku Hiva”
- Dutch: “Nuku Hiva”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نوكو هيڤا”
- Esperanto: “Nuku Hiva”
- Estonian: “Nuku Hiva”
- Finnish: “Nuku Hiva”
- French: “Île Nouka-Hiva”
- French: “Île Nuku-Hiva”
- French: “Nuka-Hiva”
- French: “Nuku Hiva”
- Galician: “Nuku Hiva”
- German: “Nuku Hiva”
- German: “Nukuhiva”
- Hebrew: “נוקו היבה”
- Hungarian: “Nuku Hiva”
- Italian: “Nuku Hiva”
- Japanese: “ヌク・イヴァ島”
- Japanese: “ヌク・ヒバ島”
- Japanese: “ヌクヒバ島”
- Latvian: “Nukuhiva”
- Lithuanian: “Nuku Hiva”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuku Hiva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuku Hiva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nuku Hiva”
- Norwegian: “Nuku Hiva”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nuku Hiva”
- Persian: “نوکو هیوا”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nuku Hiva”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nukuhiva”
- Polish: “Nuku Hiva”
- Polish: “Nuku Hiwa”
- Portuguese: “Nuku Hiva”
- Russian: “Нуку-Хива (остров)”
- Russian: “Нуку-Хива”
- Slovenian: “Nuku Hiva”
- Spanish: “Nuku Hiva”
- Swedish: “Nuku Hiva”
- Swedish: “Nukuhiva”
- Tahitian: “Nuku Hiva”
- Thai: “นูกูฮีวา”
- Ukrainian: “Нуку-Хіва”
- Urdu: “نوکو ہیوا”
- Vietnamese: “Nuku Hiva”
- Vietnamese: “Nukuhiva”
- Western Mari: “Нуку-Хива”
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