Nikumaroro
Nikumaroro, previously known as Kemins Island or Gardner Island, is a part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a remote, elongated, triangular coral atoll with profuse vegetation and a large central marine lagoon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Gardner Island” and “Kemins Island”
Nikumaroro
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-4.6756° or 4° 40′ 32″ southLongitude
-174.5177° or 174° 31′ 4″ westElevation
1 metre (3 feet)United Nations Location Code
KI NIKOpen location code
62778FFJ+PWOpenStreetMap ID
way 163602552OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Turkish—“Nikumaroro” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Атол Нікумарора”
- Belarusian: “Нікумарора”
- Catalan: “Illa Gardner”
- Catalan: “Nikumaroro”
- Cebuano: “Nikumaroro Island”
- Chinese: “尼库马罗罗环礁”
- Chinese: “尼庫馬羅羅環礁”
- Croatian: “Nikumaroro”
- Czech: “Gardnerův ostrov”
- Czech: “Nikumaroro”
- Dutch: “Gardner”
- Dutch: “Nikumaroro”
- Estonian: “Gardner Island”
- Estonian: “Nikumaroro”
- Finnish: “Nikumaroro”
- French: “Nikumaroro”
- Galician: “Illa de Nikumaroro”
- Galician: “Illa Nikumaroro”
- German: “Gardner Island”
- German: “Gardner-Insel”
- German: “Motu Oona”
- German: “Nikumaroro”
- Greek: “Γκάρντνερ Νήσος”
- Greek: “Νικουμαρόρο”
- Hebrew: “ניקומרורו”
- Indonesian: “Nikumaroro”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Gardner”
- Italian: “Nikumaroro”
- Japanese: “ニクマロロ島”
- Korean: “가드너 섬”
- Korean: “니쿠마로로 섬”
- Korean: “니쿠마로로 환초”
- Korean: “니쿠마로로”
- Lithuanian: “Nikumaroras”
- Macedonian: “Никумароро”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nikumaroro”
- Norwegian: “Nikumaroro”
- Persian: “جزیره نیکومارورو”
- Polish: “Gardner Island”
- Polish: “Nikumaroro”
- Portuguese: “Nikumaroro”
- Russian: “Гарднер”
- Russian: “Никумароро”
- Slovak: “Nikumaroro”
- Spanish: “Isla Gardner”
- Spanish: “Isla Nikumaroro”
- Spanish: “Nikumaroro”
- Swedish: “Gardner Island”
- Swedish: “Nikumaroro”
- Swedish: “Nikumaroroatollen”
- Swedish: “Nikumaroroön”
- Turkish: “Nikumaroro”
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