Maro Reef
Maro Reef is a largely submerged coral atoll located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It was discovered in 1820 by Captain Joseph Allen of the ship Maro, after whose ship the reef was named.
USGS, Public domain.- Reef
- Description: shoal in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
- Also known as“Allens Reef”“Dowsett”“Dowsett Reef”“Dowsetts Reef”“Maro and Dowsetts Reefs”“Mary Reef”
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Latitude
25.48907° or 25° 29′ 21″ north
Longitude
-170.6175° or 170° 37′ 3″ west
Open location code
72QFF9QM+J2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=reef
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Maro Reef” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شعاب مارو”
- Basque: “Maro uharria”
- Catalan: “Escull Maro”
- Cebuano: “Maro Reef”
- Chinese: “马罗礁”
- Dutch: “Maro Rif”
- French: “Récif Maro”
- Galician: “Arrecife Maro”
- German: “Maro Reef”
- Indonesian: “Karang Maro”
- Japanese: “マロ環礁”
- Lithuanian: “Maro rifas”
- Polish: “Maro Reef”
- Russian: “Маро”
- Russian: “риф Маро”
- Spanish: “Arrecife Maro”
- Ukrainian: “Риф Маро”
- Vietnamese: “Maro (rạn san hô)”
- Vietnamese: “Maro”
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