Tekokota

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Tekokota is an uninhabited atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. The Hikueru Atoll is Tekokota 22 km south away the next. The atoll has an oval shape of about 5 km long and 3.5 km wide. The western part of the atoll is submerged.

Tekokota belongs administratively to the municipality Hikueru.

History

Tekokota was discovered in 1773 by James Cook. He named the atoll Doubtful ( " The unknown "). A few months later, the atoll was sighted by Spanish sailors who roofed it with new name. The name " La del Peligro " ( The dangerous ) it received from José de Andía y Varela and Domingo de Boenechea named it after he sighted a few days later as de Andia, " Los Mátires " ( The Deadly ).

Only occasionally visited by fishermen and for harvesting and processing of coconuts into copra.