- Hiti
Hiti, or Hiti-rau-mea, is a small atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago in
French Polynesia . It is located 19 km southwest ofMakemo Atoll.Hiti Atoll is oval in shape. It measures 9 km in length with a maximum width of 6 km. There are some narrow islands on the northern side of its reef with a total land area of about 3 km². The southern part of the reef is broader but has no islands. Hiti's lagoon is not connected to the ocean by a pass.
The small group formed by Hiti,
Tepoto Sud andTuanake is also known as the "Raevski Atolls". TheTuamotu Reed-warbler and thePolynesian Ground Dove are found in this area.Hiti Atoll is permanently uninhabited.
History
The first recorded European to arrive to Hiti Atoll was Russian oceanic explorer
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1820.Administration
Hiti belongs to the commune of Makemo, which consists of the atolls of Makemo,
Haraiki ,Marutea Nord ,Katiu ,Tuanake ,Hiti ,Tepoto Sud ,Raroia ,Takume ,Taenga andNihiru .References
* [http://www.oceandots.com/pacific/tuamotu/hiti.htm]
* [http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0006320701001124 Tuamotu reed-warbler]
* [http://www.notornis.org.nz/free_issues/Notornis_40-1993/Notornis_40_2_128.pdf Polynesian Ground Dove]
* [http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_8_1899/Volume_8,_No._4,_December_1899/Names_of_the_Paumotu_Islands,_by_J.L._Young,_p_264-268?action=null Atoll names]External links
* [http://www.pacific-image.pf/pages/boutic/dboutic_cdrom_sp132.html Atoll list (in French)]
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