![]() View of Aukena from Mangareva | |
Geography | |
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Location | Pacific Ocean |
Coordinates | 23°06′42″S 134°54′01″W / 23.11167°S 134.90028°W |
Archipelago | Tuamotus |
Area | 1.35 km2 (0.52 sq mi) |
Length | 2.5 km (1.55 mi) |
Width | 0.5 km (0.31 mi) |
Highest elevation | 198 m (650 ft) |
Highest point | (unnamed) |
Administration | |
France | |
Overseas collectivity | French Polynesia |
Administrative subdivision | Tuamotus |
Commune | Gambier Islands |
Demographics | |
Population | 40[1] (2012) |
Pop. density | 30/km2 (80/sq mi) |
Aukena is the 5th largest of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia. Aukena is located about halfway between Mangareva and Akamaru, or about 5 km southeast of Mangareva, which is the largest island of the whole Gambier Islands archipelago. Aukena is approximately 2.5 km long and about 0.5 km wide, with a total area of 1.35 km2.
Mangarevan oral tradition first mentions the island in the fourteenth century, and archeological excavations show that it has been inhabited since that time.[2]
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Gallery
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Watchtower. Background: Mangareva Island
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Watchtower. Background: Mt. Duff
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Ruins of Re'e Seminary College, the first college of French Polynesia
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Church of St.Raphael
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Oven for coral lime. Missionaries used it to build various churches in the Gambier Islands.
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View from the watchtower. View is of Manui and Kamaka
References
- ^ "Population". Institut de la statistique de la Polynésie française. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ Green, Roger C.; Weisler, Marshall I. (2002). "The Mangarevan Sequence and Dating of the Geographic Expansion into Southeast Polynesia". Asian Perspectives. 41 (2): 225–229. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
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