Rotuma

Rotuma lies approximately 465 km to the north of the Fiji Islands. After Rotuma was invaded, its culture is much more in common with Polynesian and than Melanesian Fiji.
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  • Type: dependency of Fiji with 2,810 residents
  • Description: island dependency of Fiji
  • Also known as: Rotuma Island

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rotuma Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving the island of Rotuma in Fiji. It is located near Else'e, a village in the district of . It is operated by Airports Fiji Limited.

Rotuma

Latitude
-12.508° or 12° 30′ 29″ south
Longitude
177.066° or 177° 3′ 58″ east
Population
2,810
Elevation
136 metres (446 feet)
IATA airport code
RTA
United Nations Location Code
FJ RTA
Open location code
5VVVF3R8+R9
Geo­Names ID
6324593
Wiki­data ID
Q459763
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yoruba—“Rotuma” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: Rotuma
  • Arabic: روتوما
  • Armenian: Ռոտումա
  • Asturian: Rotuma
  • Azerbaijani: Rotuma
  • Basque: Rotuma
  • Belarusian: Востраў Ратума
  • Belarusian: Ратума
  • Bengali: রোতূমা
  • Bulgarian: Ротума
  • Catalan: Rotuma
  • Cebuano: Rotuma Island
  • Cebuano: Rotuma
  • Chinese: 罗图马
  • Chinese: 罗图马岛
  • Chinese: 羅圖馬島
  • Czech: Rotuma
  • Danish: Rotuma
  • Dutch: Rotuma
  • Esperanto: Rotuma
  • Estonian: Rotuma
  • Fiji Hindi: Rotuma
  • Fijian: Rotuma
  • Finnish: Rotuma
  • French: Rotuma
  • Galician: Rotuma
  • Georgian: როტუმა
  • German: FJ-R
  • German: Rotuma
  • Greek: Ροτούμα
  • Gujarati: રોટુમા
  • Hebrew: רוטומה
  • Hindi: रोटुमा
  • Hindi: रोतुमा
  • Icelandic: Rotuma
  • Indonesian: Rotuma
  • Italian: Rotuma
  • Japanese: ロツマ
  • Japanese: ロツマ属領
  • Japanese: ロツマ島
  • Japanese: ロツマ諸島
  • Japanese: ロトゥマ島
  • Kannada: ರೊಟುಮಾ
  • Korean: 로투마
  • Korean: 로투마섬
  • Latvian: Rotuma
  • Lithuanian: Rotuma
  • Macedonian: Ротума
  • Malay: Rotuma
  • Marathi: रोटुमा
  • Mingrelian: როტუმა
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Rotuma
  • Norwegian: Rotuma
  • Ossetian: Ротумæ
  • Persian: روتوما
  • Polish: Rotuma
  • Portuguese: Rotuma
  • Russian: Ротума
  • Samoan: Rotuma
  • Serbian: Ротума
  • Serbo-Croatian: Rotuma
  • Sinhala: රෝටුමා
  • Slovenian: FJ-R
  • Slovenian: Rotuma
  • Spanish: Rotuma
  • Swedish: Rotuma
  • Tamil: ரொட்டுமா
  • Telugu: రోటుమా
  • Thai: โรตูมา
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): Lotuma
  • Turkish: Rotuma
  • Ukrainian: Ротума
  • Urdu: روتوما
  • Vietnamese: Rotuma
  • Western Mari: Ротума
  • Yoruba: Rotuma

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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 “Rotuma”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.