Taenga

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Taenga or Taunga - hara is an atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. Taenga is located 32 km north-east of Makemo.

The atoll has a triangular shape with side lengths of 27 km or 11 km. The land area is about 20 km ², lagoon of the atoll has no navigable access to the sea. Taenga belongs to the municipality Makemo and has 96 inhabitants ( 2007), who live in the only place Henuparea. Most of today's residents are Mormons who settled the island in the 19th century.

The Taenga Atoll was discovered by Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1820. On some maps it is listed as Yermolov or Holt Iceland.

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