Mehetiʻa
Mehetiʻa or Meʻetiʻa is a volcanic island in the Windward Islands, in the east of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is a very young active stratovolcano 110 kilometres east of the Taiarapu Peninsula of Tahiti.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Cerro de San Cristóbal”, “Ile Mehetia”, “Le Boudoir”, “Mehetia”, “Méhétia Island”, “Mehetu”, “Osnaburgh”, “Pic de la Boudeuse”, “Tairapu-Est”, and “Tuhua”
Mehetiʻa
- Categories: mountain, volcano, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Windward Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-17.87559° or 17° 52′ 32″ southLongitude
-148.06763° or 148° 4′ 4″ westElevation
50 metres (164 feet)Open location code
53JH4WFJ+QWOpenStreetMap ID
way 22384818OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
4034198Wikidata ID
Q1340711
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Mehetiʻa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mehetia”
- Arabic: “ميهيشا”
- Asturian: “Mehetia”
- Azerbaijani: “Mehetia”
- Basque: “Mehetia”
- Belarusian: “Мехеціа”
- Bulgarian: “Мехетиа”
- Catalan: “Mehetia”
- Cebuano: “Mehetia”
- Chinese: “梅海蒂亚岛”
- Chinese: “梅海蒂亞島”
- Chinese: “美黑蒂亞島”
- Czech: “Mehetia”
- Danish: “Mehetia”
- Dutch: “Mehetia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ميهيشا”
- Esperanto: “Mehetia”
- Finnish: “Meetia”
- Finnish: “Mehetia”
- French: “Maitea”
- French: “Meetia”
- French: “Meheti’a”
- French: “Mehetia”
- French: “Meketia”
- French: “Meketu”
- French: “Mont Fareura”
- French: “Osnaburg Island”
- French: “Osnaburg”
- Galician: “Mehetia”
- German: “Meetia”
- German: “Mehetia”
- Hebrew: “מהיטיה”
- Hungarian: “Mehetia”
- Italian: “Mehetia”
- Japanese: “メヘティア島”
- Ladin: “Mehetia”
- Lithuanian: “Mehetia”
- Lithuanian: “Mehetija”
- Macedonian: “Мехетија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mehetia”
- Norwegian: “Mehetia”
- Persian: “مه هه تی ئا”
- Polish: “Mehetia”
- Portuguese: “Mehetia”
- Russian: “Мехетиа”
- Slovenian: “Mehetia”
- Spanish: “Mehetia”
- Swedish: “Mehetia”
- Tahitian: “Meheti’a”
- Venetian: “Mehetia”
- Western Frisian: “Meheti‘a”
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