Taioha’e
Taioha'e is the main town on Nuku Hiva island. The town is located on a former volcanic crater, which has partly collapsed into the ocean, creating a bay. This is the site of Fort Madison, set up by David Porter in 1813.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sémhur, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 1,220 residents
- Description: human settlement in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Taiohae”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Notre Dame Cathedral.
Notre Dame Cathedral
Church
Photo: Sémhur, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notre Dame Cathedral is a 20th-century church that serves as the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Taiohae or Tefenuaenata. It is located in the Meau Valley near the capital centre on the island of Nuku Hiva.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Madison, Nuku Hiva and Hatihe’u.
Fort Madison, Nuku Hiva
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fort Madison, on Nuku Hiva at Taioha'e Bay, was the first naval base of the United States in the Pacific Ocean. It was built by Commodore David Porter in October and November 1813, during the Nuku Hiva Campaign of the War of 1812, for protecting the settlement of Madisonville from British and Marquesan attacks.
Hatihe’u
Village
Hatihe'u is a village in Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas Islands. It lies on the bay of the same name and is also the name of an "amphitheater-shaped valley on the northeast side of the island". Hatihe’u is situated 9 km north of Taioha’e.
Taioha’e
- Categories: associated commune and locality
- Location: Nuku-Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-8.90912° or 8° 54′ 33″ southLongitude
-140.10262° or 140° 6′ 9″ westPopulation
1,220Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
PF TAIOpen location code
633X3VRW+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 471040734OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Tahitian—“Taioha’e” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Таиохае”
- Catalan: “Taiohae”
- Cebuano: “Taiohae”
- Chinese: “泰奧哈埃”
- Dutch: “Taiohae”
- French: “Hakapehi”
- French: “Tai o Hae”
- French: “Taiohae”
- German: “Taiohae”
- Hebrew: “טאיאוהא”
- Italian: “Taiohae”
- Japanese: “タイオハエ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taiohae”
- Norwegian: “Taiohae”
- Polish: “Taiohae”
- Portuguese: “Taiohae”
- Serbian: “Таиохае”
- Slovenian: “Taiohae”
- Spanish: “Taiohae”
- Tahitian: “Taiohae”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Taioha’e”. Photo: Sémhur, CC BY-SA 4.0.