Makatea (island)
Makatea is an island of Corail high in the Archipel of Tuamotu. It comprises a plain with 80 meters above the sea level. It measures 7.5 kilometers of north in the south, with a maximum width of 7 kilometers in the south. The surface is of 24 km ². The population is of 94 inhabitants (Recensement of 2002). The chief-place is Moumu on the east coast. A given up city, Vaitepaua, and a port on the northern Western coast, Temao, date both from the operating time of the Phosphate (1917 to 1964). Makatea is one of three high coral islands of the Pacific which had large phosphate layers, the two others being Nauru and Banaba.
The island forms a Commune partner to the commune of Rangiroa. The inhabitants live agriculture, culture of the Coprah, fishing and trade of the crabs of coconut.
The island was called “Aurora” (which means the “island of the recreation”) by the discoverer Jakob Roggeveen in 1722. Later, the Polynesians called it “Tea Dad” (which wants to say “the white rock”).
See too
- Makatea
- another satellite sight (NASA)
External bond
- Chart of Makatea
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