Pukapuka
Pukapuka, formerly Danger Island, is a coral atoll in the northern group of the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the most remote islands of the Cook Islands, situated about 1,140 kilometres northwest of Rarotonga.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: atoll with 507 residents
- Description: atoll in the northern Cook Islands
- Also known as: “Danger Island”, “Islands of Danger”, “Puka-Puka”, “Te Ulu-o-Te-Watu”, and “Wale”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Loto and Ngake.
Loto
Village
Loto is one of three villages on the island of Wale in the Pukapuka atoll of the Cook Islands. It is the central village and regulates Motu Uta, the major food-production area on Wale.
Ngake
Village
Ngake is one of three villages on the island of Wale in the Pukapuka atoll of the Cook Islands. It is the easternmost village and regulates the island of Motu Kō.
Pukapuka
- Location: Cook Islands, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Pukapuka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوكابوكا”
- Asturian: “Pukapuca”
- Asturian: “Pukapuka”
- Belarusian: “Атол Пукапука”
- Belarusian: “Пукапука”
- Bengali: “পুকাপুকা”
- Catalan: “Pukapuka”
- Cebuano: “Pukapuka”
- Chinese: “普卡普卡島”
- Chinese: “普卡普卡环礁”
- Danish: “Pukapuka”
- Dutch: “Pukapuka”
- Estonian: “Pukapuka”
- Finnish: “Pukapuka”
- French: “Îles de la Loutre”
- French: “Pukapuka”
- Galician: “Pukapuka”
- German: “Pukapuka”
- Greek: “Πουκαπούκα”
- Gujarati: “પુકાપુકા”
- Hebrew: “פוקאפוקה”
- Hebrew: “פוקהפוקה”
- Hebrew: “פוקפוקה”
- Hindi: “पुकापुका”
- Indonesian: “Pukapuka”
- Italian: “Pukapuka”
- Japanese: “プカプカ島”
- Kannada: “ಪುಕಾಪುಕ”
- Korean: “푸카푸카섬”
- Latvian: “Pukapuka”
- Lithuanian: “Pukapuka”
- Malay: “Pukapuka”
- Maori: “Pukapuka”
- Marathi: “पुकपुकु”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pukapuka”
- Norwegian: “Pukapuka”
- Persian: “پوکاپوکا”
- Polish: “Pukapuka”
- Portuguese: “Pukapuka”
- Portuguese: “San Bernardo”
- Russian: “Пукапука”
- Sinhala: “පකපුකා”
- Sinhala: “පුකපුකා”
- Spanish: “Pukapuka”
- Swedish: “Pukapuka”
- Tamil: “புகப்புக”
- Telugu: “పుకాపుకా”
- Thai: “เกาะปุกาปุกา”
- Turkish: “Pukapuka”
- Ukrainian: “Пукапука”
- Urdu: “پوکاپوکا”
- Vietnamese: “Pukapuka”
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