Motutunga

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Motutunga belongs to the municipality Anaa, is an uninhabited atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia and is 17 km south-east of Tahanea. It has a triangular shape of 15 km and a maximum width of 14 km, is surrounded by a fringing reef and the lagoon has no navigable access to the sea.

Motutunga was discovered in 1773 by James Cook and originally baptized in the name of his ship Adventure. The Spanish navigator Domingo de Boenechea sighted the island in 1774 and gave it the name of San Blas.

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