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Tekokota is one of the Central Tuamotu atolls. It is twenty
km or so from Hikueru, 740
km from the eastern coast of Tahiti, and its situation is 17°20'
south 142°37' west.
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This island amounts to only 10 hectares of land and a wide
breach in the south-east gives easy access to its lagoon,
probably due to the occurrence of a geological upheaval
which shifted the base of the atoll. |
This island was discovered by James Cook in 1774.
Although it is uninhabited, it is occasionally visited by
fishermen and copra farmers.
Tekokota, along with the island of Reitoru, belongs to the administrative
commune of Hikueru.
From :
Ministère
des Archipels (1998), Les Tuamotu Gambier : recueil de données
essentielles, décembre 1998, Service de l'administration
et du développement des archipels, PAPEETE.
Norman&Ngaire,
Douglas (1994), Pacific Islands Yearbook,
17° édition, Fiji Times Ltd, 767p. |
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