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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Te Kainga and Paerangi.
Te Kainga
Islet
Te Kainga is one of 11 islands in the Rakahanga atoll of the Cook Islands. The island once served as the principal inhabited island of Rakahanga, but the settlement was moved to Rakahanga Island in the missionary era.
Paerangi
Islet
Paerangi is one of 11 islands in the Rakahanga atoll of the Cook Islands. It is in the southwest of the atoll, between the islands of Tetaha Kiraro and Te Kainga.
Te Motu o Umurua
Islet
Te Motu o Umurua is one of 11 islands in the Rakahanga atoll of the Cook Islands. It is on the east of the atoll, next to the island of Tetukono.
Rakahanga
- Type: atoll with 127 residents
- Description: atoll in the Cook Islands
- Location: Cook Islands, Polynesia, Oceania
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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”
- Galician: “Rakahanga”
- German: “Rakahanga”
- Greek: “Ρακαχάνγκα”
- Gujarati: “રાકાહાંગા”
- Hindi: “राकाँगा”
- Indonesian: “Rakahanga”
- Italian: “Rakahanga”
- Japanese: “ラカハンガ島”
- 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: “Атолл Александра”
- Russian: “Ракаханга”
- Sinhala: “රකහන්ගා”
- Spanish: “Rakahanga”
- Swedish: “Rakahanga”
- Tamil: “ரகஹங்கா”
- Telugu: “రాకాహంగా”
- Turkish: “Rakahanga”
- Ukrainian: “Ракаханга”
- Urdu: “راکاحانجا”
- Vietnamese: “Rakahanga”
- Xhosa: “Rakahanga”
Localities in the Area
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