Arutua Island
Arutua, or Ngaru-atua is an atoll in the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. It is located 40 km SW of Rangiroa. The closest land is Apataki Atoll, only 16 km to the East.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Atoll
- Description: atoll
- Also known as: “Arutua”, “Meerdere Zorg”, “Ngaru-atua Atoll”, “Rurick”, and “Ryúrik”
Arutua Island
- Categories: atoll and landform
- Location: Îles Tuamotu-Gambier, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Arutua Island” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Arutua”
- Azerbaijani: “Arutua”
- Catalan: “Arutua”
- Cebuano: “Atoll Arutua”
- Chinese: “阿魯圖阿環礁”
- Dutch: “Arutua”
- Esperanto: “Arutua”
- Estonian: “Arutua”
- French: “Arutua”
- French: “Atoll d’Arutua”
- Galician: “Atol Arutua”
- German: “Arutua”
- Hungarian: “Arutua”
- Italian: “Arutua”
- Japanese: “アルトゥア環礁”
- Latvian: “Arutua”
- Lithuanian: “Arutua”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arutua”
- Norwegian: “Arutua”
- Persian: “آروتوا”
- Portuguese: “Arutua”
- Russian: “Арутуа”
- Slovak: “Arutua”
- Spanish: “Arutua”
- Swahili: “Arutua”
- Tahitian: “Arutua”
- Ukrainian: “Арутуа”
- Western Mari: “Арутуа”
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