Hiva Oa
Hiva Oa is the second largest island in the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.- Type: Island
- Description: island in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Dominica”, “Hiva hoa”, “Hiva roa”, “Hiva-Oa”, “Hiwaoa”, “Ile Hiva-Oa”, “La Dominique”, “Ohevihoa”, and “Ohivaoa”
- Historically known as: “Domenica Island”, “Dominica Island”, and “Ohivihua”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Atuona Airport.
Atuona Airport
Aerodrome
Atuona Airport or Hiva Oa Airport is an airport located 4.5 kilometres northeast of Atuona, on the island of Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia.
Hiva Oa
- Categories: volcanic island and landform
- Location: Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-9.7653° or 9° 45′ 55″ south
Longitude
-138.9994° or 138° 59′ 58″ west
Population
2,370
Elevation
520 metres (1,706 feet)
Open location code
642362M2+V6
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Mari—“Hiva Oa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hiva-Oa”
- Arabic: “هيفا أوآ”
- Armenian: “Հիվա-Օա”
- Basque: “Hiva Oa”
- Catalan: “Hiva Oa”
- Cebuano: “Hiva Oa”
- Chinese: “希瓦瓦島”
- Chinese: “黑瓦奧”
- Chuvash: “Хива-Оа”
- Czech: “Hiva Oa”
- Czech: “Hiva-Oa”
- Dutch: “Hiva Oa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيفا اوآ”
- Esperanto: “Hiva Oa”
- Estonian: “Hiva Oa”
- Finnish: “Hiva Oa”
- French: “Hiva Oa”
- French: “Hiva-Oa”
- Galician: “Hiva Oa”
- German: “Hiva Oa”
- Hebrew: “היבה אוא”
- Hindi: “इवा ओआ”
- Indonesian: “Hiva Oa”
- Italian: “Hiva Oa”
- Japanese: “ヒバ・オア島”
- Japanese: “ヒバオア島”
- Latvian: “Hivaoa”
- Lithuanian: “Hiva Oa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hiva Oa”
- Norwegian: “Hiva Oa”
- Persian: “هیوا اوآ”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Hiva Oa”
- Polish: “Hiva Oa”
- Portuguese: “Hiva’Oa”
- Romanian: “Hiva Oa”
- Russian: “Хива-Оа (остров)”
- Russian: “Хива-Оа”
- Slovenian: “Hiva Oa”
- Spanish: “Hiva Oa”
- Spanish: “Hiva’Oa”
- Swahili: “Hiva Oa”
- Swedish: “Hiva Oa”
- Tahitian: “Hiva Oa”
- Ukrainian: “Хіва-Оа”
- Urdu: “ہیوا اوا”
- Western Mari: “Хива-Оа”
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