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    Ogea Driki

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    Ogea Driki is a coral atoll covering approximately 4 square kilometres (990 acres) in Fiji's Southern Lau Group. It is 2.7 kilometres (1.7 miles) south of Ogea Levu and 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) east of Fulaga.

    NASA astronaut image of Ogea or Ongea islands, Lau Archipelago, Fiji
    NASA astronaut image of Ogea or Ongea islands, Lau Archipelago, Fiji

    Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain

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    Overview

    Ogea Driki is a coral atoll covering approximately 4 square kilometres (990 acres) in Fiji's Southern Lau Group. It is 2.7 kilometres (1.7 miles) south of Ogea Levu and 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) east of Fulaga. A 1,830 hectares (4,500 acres) area covering both Ogea Driki and Ogea Levu is the Ogea Important Bird Area. The Important Bird Area covers the entire range of the near threatened Ogea monarch. It is the farming and fishing ground for the Ogean villagers who own the island and subdivided into farming lots as well as beaches. It has no residential house but are always used by the Ogeans as a place to sleep overnight for fishing purposes or any other means. It has a rich bundled fish corals and reef.

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    Also in Lau Islands

    Also in Fiji

    Also in Melanesia

    Also in Solomon Islands

    Sources

    Facts

    • Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
    • Talus
    • Wikidata
    • Wikipedia

    Photographs

    • Ogea highres STS098. Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain