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15°48′S 154°32′W
Motu One
Part of Leeward Islands
Motu One, also known as Bellinghausen, is an atoll in the Leeward group of the Society Islands, in the South Pacific. Motu One is located 550 km northwest from Tahiti and 72 km northeast of Manuae, its closest neighbor.
Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Public domain
Chart
Overview
Motu One, also known as Bellinghausen, is an atoll in the Leeward group of the Society Islands, in the South Pacific. Motu One is located 550 km northwest from Tahiti and 72 km northeast of Manuae, its closest neighbor. Motu One's reef encloses totally a lagoon without a pass. All of its sides are covered with low, wooded sandy islands except for its southern side. Motu One means Sand Island in Tahitian, that is a low-lying, sandy islet that cannot sustain permanent human habitation.
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Census, cataloged
Also in the area
Inside the group's outline but not confirmed as members by any source.
- Unnamed island14 m · 0.91 km²
- Unnamed island11 m · 0.12 km²
- Unnamed island9 m · 0.12 km²
- Unnamed island1 m · 0.05 km²
- Unnamed island1 m · 0.02 km²
- Unnamed island1 m · 0.01 km²
- Unnamed island1 m · 0.7 ha
- Unnamed island1 m · 0.2 ha
- Unnamed island1 m · 0.2 ha
- Unnamed island1 m · 0.2 ha
- Unnamed island0.1 ha
- Unnamed island0.1 ha
Figures
Comparative heights
To the same scale
Islands by area
| Unnamed island | 0.91 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.12 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.12 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.05 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.02 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.01 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.7 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.2 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.2 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.2 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
| Unnamed island | <0.1 ha |
Photographs
NASA astronaut image of Motu One, Society Islands, French Polynesia
View of the Society Islands taken during ISS Expedition 2.
Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Public domain
View of the Society Islands taken during ISS Expedition 9.
Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Public domain
Sources
Facts
Photographs
- ISS002-E-9768 - View of the Society Islands. Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Public domain
- MotuOne. NASA / Public domain
- ISS009-E-5527 - View of the Society Islands. Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Public domain