Vahitahi

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Vahitahi, also called Vaitake, is an atoll in the Tuamotu archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Politically, it is part of French Polynesia, where the municipality Nukutavake. Vahitahi lies about 50 kilometers north of the main island Nukutavake.

The oval-shaped atoll consists of a large, crescent- shaped island in the northeast, a smaller island to the west and numerous smaller Motus. The flat, central lagoon is completely enclosed by a coral reef. The land area is about 2.5 square kilometers, the area of ​​the lagoon 7.4 km ². Only the smaller island to the west is inhabited, the 83 inhabitants (as of 2007) live mainly in the capital Mohitu. There is also the airfield Vahitahi.

Vahitahi in 1768 discovered by the French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville for Europe and called by him originally Les Quatre Facardins. James Cook reached the atoll one year later and named it Lagoon Iceland.

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