Tureia

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Tureia (also Papahena or Papakena called old name: Carysfort Iceland ) is an atoll in the southeastern Tuamotu Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of French Polynesia and is the most populated atoll in the municipality of the same dar.

Tureia is about 1,100 km south-east of Tahiti and about 115 km north of the area famous for Mururoa Atoll nuclear tests. Covering an area of about 13 × 7 km there is a comparatively small atoll. The area of ​​the lagoon is about 47 km ², land area 8.3 km ². The largest island of the atoll is the elongated, semi-circular enclosing the lagoon Motu Tekaruga on which also the airport of Tureia (IATA: ZTA, ICAO: NTGY ) is located. The atoll Tureia has 311 inhabitants ( as of 2007), mainly living in the main town Fakamaru.

Was discovered for Europe Tureia in March 1791 by the British captain and later admiral ( rear admiral ) Edward Edwards searching for the mutineers of the Bounty. He named the atoll Carysfort, by John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort of ( 1720-1772 ), a British politician and Lord of the Admiralty. From 1966 to 1996 was on Tureia a station of the French Centre d' Expérimentation du Pacifique, to observe and monitor the nuclear tests in Mururoa atolls and Fangataufa.