Moorea
Moorea is an island in the Society Islands archipelago, a few kilometers off the northwest coast of Tahiti. If you are visiting French Polynesia on a budget, Moorea is the place to be. Moorea is like Tahiti but cheaper and less touristy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jens Bludau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Duke of York’s Island”, “Ile Moorea”, “Moʻorea”, “Moʻoreʻa”, “Mooréa Island”, “Moʼorea”, and “Santo Domingo”
- Historically known as: “Maurea”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Tohivea and Mt Rotui.
Mount Tohivea
Peak
Photo: Olivier Bruchez, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Tohivea is the highest point on the island of Mo'orea in French Polynesia at 1,207 metres. The mountain is about 3.2 kilometres south of the settlement of Pao Pao, and is easily visible from the west coast of nearby Tahiti, approximately 24 kilometres to the east.
Moorea
- Category: landform
- Location: Windward Islands, Society Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Moorea from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Moorea” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Moorea”
- Arabic: “موريا”
- Basque: “Moorea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Мурэа”
- Belarusian: “Мурэа”
- Bulgarian: “Мореа”
- Catalan: “Moorea”
- Cebuano: “Moorea”
- Chinese: “摩丽雅岛”
- Chinese: “摩麗雅島”
- Chinese: “茉莉亞”
- Chinese: “茉莉亞島”
- Chinese: “莫雷阿岛”
- Chinese: “莫雷阿島”
- Czech: “Moorea”
- Danish: “Moorea”
- Dutch: “Moorea”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موريا”
- Esperanto: “Moorea”
- Estonian: “Moorea”
- Finnish: “Moorea”
- French: “Moorea”
- Galician: “Moorea”
- German: “Eimeo”
- German: “Moorea”
- Hebrew: “מוריאה”
- Hungarian: “Moorea”
- Indonesian: “Moorea”
- Italian: “Isola Moorea”
- Italian: “Moorea”
- Japanese: “モーレア”
- Japanese: “モーレア島”
- Latvian: “Moorea”
- Lithuanian: “Moorea”
- Lithuanian: “Moorėja”
- Lithuanian: “Morea”
- Lithuanian: “Murea”
- Macedonian: “Моореа”
- Macedonian: “Моореја”
- Malay: “Moorea”
- Northern Frisian: “Moorea”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moorea”
- Norwegian: “Moorea”
- Persian: “جزیره مواوریا”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ مواوریا”
- Persian: “جزیره موری”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ موری”
- Persian: “موئورئا”
- Persian: “مواوریا”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Mo’orea”
- Polish: “Moorea”
- Portuguese: “Moorea”
- Russian: “Моореа”
- Russian: “Муреа”
- Spanish: “Moorea”
- Swedish: “Moorea”
- Swiss German: “Moorea”
- Tahitian: “Mo’orea”
- Tahitian: “Moʻorea”
- Tahitian: “Moʻoreʻa”
- Thai: “Moorea”
- Thai: “โมโอเรอา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Moorea”
- Turkish: “Moorea”
- Turkish: “Moʼorea”
- Ukrainian: “Муреа”
- Urdu: “مووریا”
- Vietnamese: “Moorea”
- Welsh: “Moorea”
- Western Frisian: “Mo‘orea”
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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 “Moorea”. Photo: Jens Bludau, CC BY-SA 3.0.