Lagoon Island
Takaroa, Taka-roa or Takapua, is an atoll in the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. It has a length of 27.4 kilometres and a width of 7 km; its land area is 20 square kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- 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
- Category: atoll
- Location: Îles Tuamotu-Gambier, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-14.45198° or 14° 27′ 7″ southLongitude
-144.96351° or 144° 57′ 49″ westIATA airport code
TKXOpen location code
53QQG2XP+6HOpenStreetMap ID
way 139161521OpenStreetMap feature
natural=atollOpenStreetMap feature
place=atollGeoNames ID
4033623Wikidata ID
Q1670474
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Satellite Map
Discover Lagoon Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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