Maupiti
Maupiti is an island in the western Leeward Islands in French Polynesia. It is the westernmost volcanic island in the archipelago, 315 kilometres northwest of Tahiti and 40 kilometres west of Bora Bora.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Maupiti Island”, “Maurua”, “San Antonio”, and “マウピティ環礁”
- Historically known as: “Marua Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maupiti Airport.
Maupiti Airport
Aerodrome
Maupiti
- Categories: volcanic island and landform
- Location: Leeward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-16.4443° or 16° 26′ 39″ south
Longitude
-152.259° or 152° 15′ 32″ west
Population
1,230
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
IATA airport code
MAU
Open location code
53M9HP4R+7C
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Satellite Map
Discover Maupiti from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Maupiti” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Maupiti”
- Arabic: “ماوبيتي”
- Basque: “Maupiti”
- Belarusian: “Маўпіці”
- Cajun French: “Maupiti”
- Catalan: “Maupiti”
- Cebuano: “Maupiti”
- Chinese: “莫皮蒂岛”
- Chinese: “莫皮蒂島”
- Danish: “Maupiti”
- Dutch: “Maupiti”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماوبيتى”
- Esperanto: “Maupiti”
- Estonian: “Maupiti”
- Extremaduran: “Maupiti”
- Finnish: “Maupiti”
- French: “Île Maupiti”
- French: “Maupiti”
- Galician: “Illa Maupiti”
- German: “Maupiti”
- Hebrew: “מאופיטי”
- Hungarian: “Maupiti”
- Italian: “Maupiti”
- Japanese: “マウピティ島”
- Latvian: “Maupiti”
- Lithuanian: “Maupiti”
- Lithuanian: “Maupitis”
- Macedonian: “Маупити”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maupiti”
- Norwegian: “Maupiti”
- Persian: “مائوپیتی”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Maupiti”
- Polish: “Maupiti”
- Portuguese: “Maupiti”
- Russian: “Маупити”
- Spanish: “Maupiti”
- Swedish: “Maupiti”
- Tahitian: “Maupiti”
- Ukrainian: “Маупіті”
- Venetian: “Maupiti”
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