Rakahanga
Rakahanga is part of the Cook Islands, situated in the central-southern Pacific Ocean. The unspoilt atoll is 1,248 kilometres from the Cook Islands' capital, Rarotonga, and lies 1,111 kilometres south of the equator.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: atoll with 127 residents
- Description: atoll in the Cook Islands
- Also known as: “Атолл Александра” and “ラカハンガ島”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Te Kainga and Paerangi.
Te Motu o Umurua
Islet
Te Motu o Umurua is one of 11 islands in the Rakahanga atoll of the Cook Islands.
Rakahanga
- Category: reef island
- Location: Cook Islands, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-10.0317° or 10° 1′ 54″ south
Longitude
-161.091° or 161° 5′ 28″ west
Population
127
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
Open location code
52XWXW95+8J
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Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Xhosa—“Rakahanga” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راكاهانغا”
- Bengali: “রাখাহাংগা”
- Catalan: “Rakahanga”
- Cebuano: “Rakahanga Atoll”
- Central Bikol: “Rakahanga”
- Chinese: “拉卡杭阿环礁”
- Chinese: “拉卡杭阿環礁”
- Danish: “Rakahanga”
- Dutch: “Rakahanga”
- Estonian: “Rakahanga”
- Finnish: “Rakahanga”
- French: “Rakahanga”
- Galician: “Atol Rakahanga”
- German: “Rakahanga”
- Greek: “Ρακαχάνγκα”
- Gujarati: “રાકાહાંગા”
- Hindi: “राकाँगा”
- Indonesian: “Rakahanga”
- Italian: “Rakahanga”
- Japanese: “ラカハンガ環礁”
- Kannada: “ರಾಕಾಹಂಗಾ”
- Korean: “라카항가”
- Latvian: “Rakahanga”
- Lithuanian: “Rakahanga”
- Malay: “Rakahanga”
- Marathi: “रकाहाना”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rakahanga”
- Norwegian: “Rakahanga”
- Persian: “راکاهانگا”
- Polish: “Rakahanga”
- Portuguese: “Rakahanga”
- Russian: “Ракаханга”
- Sinhala: “රකහන්ගා”
- Spanish: “Rakahanga”
- Swedish: “Rakahanga”
- Tamil: “ரகஹங்கா”
- Telugu: “రాకాహంగా”
- Turkish: “Rakahanga Adası”
- Turkish: “Rakahanga”
- Ukrainian: “Ракаханга”
- Urdu: “راکاحانجا”
- Vietnamese: “Rakahanga”
- Xhosa: “Rakahanga”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Matara and Nivano.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Rakahanga and Tua i Omoka.
Cook Islands: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
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