Mangaia
Mangaia is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest, after Rarotonga. Geologists estimate the island is at least 18 million years old, making it the oldest in the Pacific.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Tiriara and Mangaia Airport.
Lake Tiriara
Lake
Lake Tiriara is a lake located on the southern end of the island of Mangaia, a part of the Cook Islands. It is the largest freshwater lake in the island chain.
Mangaia Airport
Aerodrome
Mangaia Airport is an airport on Mangaia in the Cook Islands. It lies 45 feet above mean sea level. In 2007, the airport received $5 million for development.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oneroa and Karanga Village.
Oneroa
Village
Oneroa is the largest village on Mangaia Island, which is part of the Cook Islands archipelago. It is located towards the west of the island, in the district of Kei'a, and contains over half of the island's population.
Karanga Village
Village
Karanga is the smallest of the six traditional districts of the island of Mangaia, in the Cook Islands archipelago. Karanga is located in the northeast of the island, to the east of the District of Tava'enga and northwest of the District of Ivirua.
Tamarua
Village
Tamarua is one of the six traditional districts of the island of Mangaia, which is part of the Cook Islands archipelago. Tamarua is located in the southeast of Mangaia, to the south of the District of Ivirua and east of the District of Veitatei.
Mangaia
- Type: island with 744 residents
- Description: island of the Southern Cook Islands
- Location: Southern Cook Islands, Cook Islands, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Mangaia from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Mangaia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مانغايا”
- Asturian: “Mangaia”
- Bengali: “মাঙ্গাইয়া”
- Catalan: “Mangaia”
- Cebuano: “Mangaia”
- Chinese: “曼加伊亞島”
- Chinese: “芒艾亚岛”
- Czech: “Mangaia”
- Danish: “Mangaia”
- Dutch: “Mangaia”
- Esperanto: “Mangaia”
- Estonian: “Mangaia”
- Finnish: “Mangaia”
- French: “Mangaia”
- Galician: “Illa de Mangaia”
- Galician: “Mangaia”
- German: “Mangaia”
- Greek: “Μανγκάια”
- Greek: “Μανγκέα”
- Gujarati: “માંગિયા”
- Hebrew: “מנגאיה”
- Hindi: “मंगैया”
- Indonesian: “Mangaia”
- Italian: “Mangaia”
- Japanese: “マンガイア島”
- Kannada: “ಮಂಗಿಯಾ”
- Korean: “망가이아”
- Latvian: “Mangaja”
- Lithuanian: “Mangaja”
- Malay: “Mangaia”
- Marathi: “मांगायिया”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mangaia”
- Norwegian: “Mangaia”
- Persian: “مانگایا”
- Polish: “Mangaia”
- Portuguese: “Mangaia”
- Russian: “Мангаиа”
- Sinhala: “මන්ගයියා”
- Slovenian: “Mangala”
- Spanish: “Mangaia”
- Swedish: “Mangaia”
- Tamil: “மாங்கையா”
- Telugu: “మెంగేయా”
- Thai: “เกาะแมนไกอา”
- Turkish: “Mangaia”
- Ukrainian: “Мангая”
- Urdu: “مانجایا”
- Vietnamese: “Mangaia”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mangaia”. Photo: KennyOMG, CC BY-SA 4.0.