Hikueru
Hikueru, Tiveru, or Te Kārena, is one of the Central Tuamotu atolls. The closest land to Hikueru is Tekokota Atoll, located 22 km to the north. Hikueru Atoll's shape is roughly oval and it is 15 km in length and 9.5 km in width.- Type: atoll with 241 residents
- Description: atoll in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Te Karena” and “Tiveru”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hikueru Atoll Airport.
Hikueru Atoll Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: NASA, Public domain.Hikueru
- Category: reef island
- Location: Tuamotu-Gambier Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-17.5497° or 17° 32′ 59″ south
Longitude
-142.6092° or 142° 36′ 33″ west
Population
241
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PF HHZ
Open location code
53JVF92R+48
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Mari—“Hikueru” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հիկուերու”
- Azerbaijani: “Hikueru”
- Catalan: “Hikueru”
- Cebuano: “Atoll Hikueru”
- Chinese: “希库埃鲁环礁”
- Chinese: “希庫埃魯環礁”
- Dutch: “Hikueru”
- Finnish: “Hikueru”
- French: “Hikueru”
- Galician: “Atol Hikueru”
- German: “Hikueru”
- Hungarian: “Hikueru”
- Italian: “Hikueru”
- Japanese: “ヒクエル環礁”
- Latvian: “Hikueru”
- Lithuanian: “Hikueru”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hikueru”
- Norwegian: “Hikueru”
- Polish: “Hikueru”
- Portuguese: “Hikueru”
- Russian: “Хикуэру”
- Slovak: “Hikueru”
- Spanish: “Hikueru”
- Swahili: “Hikueru”
- Tahitian: “Hikueru”
- Turkish: “Hikueru”
- Western Mari: “Хикуэру”
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