Tikehau

Tikehau or Porutu-kai is a coral atoll in the group, part of the in . It is included in the commune of Rangiroa.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
  • Locality
  • …has the IATA airport code TIH
  • Description: island in French Polynesia
  • Also known as
    “Île Krusenstern”
    “Krusenstern”
    “Kruzenshtern”
    “Porutu-kai”
    “Tikahau”
    “Tikahau Island”
  • Historically known as
    “Krusensterns Island”
    “Tikehau Island”
Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Tikehau

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Latitude
-15.0152° or 15° 0′ 55″ south
Longitude
-148.1678° or 148° 10′ 4″ west
UN/LOCODE
PF TIH
Open location code
53PHXRMJ+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­atoll
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­atoll
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Western Mari—“Tikehau” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Tikehau”
  • Catalan: “Tikehau”
  • Cebuano: “Atoll Tikehau”
  • Chinese: “蒂凯豪环礁”
  • Danish: “Tikehau”
  • Dutch: “Tikehau”
  • Esperanto: “Tikehau”
  • Finnish: “Tikehau”
  • French: “Tikehau”
  • Galician: “Atol Tikehau”
  • German: “Tikehau”
  • Italian: “Tikehau”
  • Japanese: “ティケハウ環礁”
  • Korean: “티케하우”
  • Latvian: “Tikehau”
  • Lithuanian: “Tikehau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tikehau”
  • Norwegian: “Tikehau”
  • Polish: “Tikehau”
  • Portuguese: “Tikehau”
  • Russian: “Тикехау”
  • Slovak: “Tikehau”
  • Spanish: “Tikehau”
  • Swahili: “Tikehau”
  • Tahitian: “Tikehau”
  • Western Mari: “Тикехау”

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