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Gambier Islands

The Gambier Islands are a group of small volcanic islands surrounded by coral reefs in the southeast extreme of the archipelago of .
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  • Type: Archipelago
  • Description: archipelago in French Polynesia
  • Also known as: “Gambier archipelago”, “Iles Gambier”, “Îsles Gambier”, and “Mangareva”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Duff and Mekiro.

Peak
, also called Auorotini in the Mangarevan language, is the highest peak on the island of in the Gambier Islands, . It has an elevation of 441 m.

Islet
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is an island of the Gambier Islands of . The islands of Gambier also include , Taravai, Agakauitai, Akamaru, Aukena and Kamakawhich. Mangareva is the largest island of the whole Gambier Islands archipelago.

Church
Photo: FRED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Michael's Cathedral, also known as the Rikitea Cathedral, is a parish of the Catholic Church located on Mangareva Island in the Gambier Islands of .

Gambier Islands

Latitude
-23.1572° or 23° 9′ 26″ south
Longitude
-134.9541° or 134° 57′ 15″ west
Population
1,340
United Nations Location Code
PF GMR
Open location code
5487R2VW+49
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4069429780
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Geo­Names ID
4030655
Wiki­data ID
Q504043
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gambier Islands” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gambiereilande”
  • Arabic: “جزر غامبير”
  • Basque: “Gambier artxipelagoa”
  • Basque: “Gambier uharteak”
  • Basque: “Gambier uhartedia”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Гамб’е”
  • Belarusian: “Гамб’е”
  • Bulgarian: “Гамбе”
  • Bulgarian: “Гамбие”
  • Catalan: “illes Gambier”
  • Catalan: “Illes Gambier”
  • Catalan: “Illes Mangareva”
  • Cebuano: “Îles Gambier”
  • Chinese: “Gambier Kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “千俾爾群島”
  • Chinese: “甘比尔群岛”
  • Chinese: “甘比爾”
  • Chinese: “甘比爾群島”
  • Czech: “Gambierovy ostrovy”
  • Dutch: “Gambier eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Gambiereilanden”
  • Dutch: “Iles Gambier”
  • Dutch: “Îles Gambier”
  • Esperanto: “Insuloj de Gambier”
  • Esperanto: “Insuloj Gambier”
  • Finnish: “Gambier-saaret”
  • Finnish: “Gambiersaaret”
  • Finnish: “Iles Gambier”
  • Finnish: “Îles Gambier”
  • French: “Archipel des Gambier”
  • French: “Iles Gambier”
  • French: “îles Gambier”
  • French: “Îles Gambier”
  • Galician: “Illas Gambier”
  • Georgian: “გამბიეს კუნძულები”
  • German: “Gambier-Inseln”
  • German: “Gambierinseln”
  • German: “Mangarevainseln”
  • Greek: “Γκάμπιερ Νήσοι”
  • Hebrew: “איי גמבייה”
  • Hungarian: “Gambier-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Gambíer-eyjar”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Gambier”
  • Italian: “Arcipelago Gambier”
  • Italian: “Îles Gambier”
  • Italian: “Isole Gambier”
  • Japanese: “ガンビエ諸島”
  • Korean: “강비에 제도”
  • Latvian: “Gambjē salas”
  • Lithuanian: “Gambjė salos”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gambierinselen”
  • Macedonian: “Гамбје”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Gambier”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gambier Kûn-tó”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gambier-Eilunen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gambierøyene”
  • Norwegian: “Gambierøyene”
  • Persian: “جزایر گامبیر”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Gambiera”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago de Gambier”
  • Portuguese: “Gambier”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Gambier”
  • Russian: “Гамбье”
  • Russian: “Острова Гамбье”
  • Serbian: “Острва Гамбије”
  • Serbian: “Острва Гамбје”
  • Slovenian: “Archipel des Gambier”
  • Slovenian: “Gambierjevo otočje”
  • Slovenian: “Îles Gambier”
  • Spanish: “Gambier”
  • Spanish: “Islas Gambier”
  • Swedish: “Gambier-öarna”
  • Swedish: “Gambieröarna”
  • Tahitian: “Ma’areva mā”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะแกมเบียร์”
  • Turkish: “Gambier Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Mangareva Adaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамб’є”
  • Urdu: “جزائر گیمبیئر”
  • Vietnamese: “Gambier (quần đảo thuộc Polynésie thuộc Pháp)”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Gambier”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Gambier”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Gambier”
  • Western Frisian: “Gambiereilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Гамбье ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Wu Chinese: “甘比尔群岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “甘比爾群島”

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