Polynesia
French Polynesia
Îles Tuamotu-Gambier

Lagoon Island

Takaroa, Taka-roa or Takapua, is an atoll in the Tuamotu group in . It has a length of 27.4 kilometres and a width of 7 km; its land area is 20 square kilometres.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: island in French Polynesia
  • Also known as: “Île Zonderground”, “Taka-Roa”, “Takapua”, “Takaroa”, “Takaroa Atoll”, “Takaroa Island”, “Tioka”, “Tiokea”, and “Tiukea”

Lagoon Island

Latitude
-14.45198° or 14° 27′ 7″ south
Longitude
-144.96351° or 144° 57′ 49″ west
IATA airport code
TKX
Open location code
53QQG2XP+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 139161521
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­atoll
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­atoll
Geo­Names ID
4033623
Wiki­data ID
Q1670474
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Satellite Map

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

From Azerbaijani to Western Mari—“Lagoon Island” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Takaroa”
  • Catalan: “Takaroa”
  • Cebuano: “Takaroa Atoll”
  • Chinese: “塔卡羅阿環礁”
  • Dutch: “Takaroa”
  • Esperanto: “Takaroa”
  • Finnish: “Takaroa”
  • French: “Atoll de Takaroa”
  • French: “Takaroa”
  • Galician: “Atol Takaroa”
  • German: “Takaroa”
  • Hungarian: “Takaroa”
  • Italian: “Takaroa”
  • Japanese: “タカロア環礁”
  • Latvian: “Takaroa”
  • Lithuanian: “Takaroa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Takaroa”
  • Norwegian: “Takaroa”
  • Polish: “Takaroa”
  • Portuguese: “Takaroa”
  • Russian: “Такароа”
  • Slovak: “Takaroa”
  • Spanish: “Takaroa”
  • Swahili: “Takaroa”
  • Tahitian: “Takaroa”
  • Western Mari: “Такароа”

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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 “Lagoon Island”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.