Arutua Explained

Arutua
Map:	French Polynesia
Location:	Pacific Ocean
Archipelago:	Tuamotus
Area Km2:	484
Area Footnotes:	(lagoon) 15km2 (above water)
Length Km:	31
Width Km:	24
Country:	France
Country Admin Divisions Title:	Overseas collectivity
Country Admin Divisions:	French Polynesia
Country Admin Divisions Title 2:	Commune
Country Admin Divisions 2:	Arutua
Country Admin Divisions Title 1:	Administrative subdivision
Country Admin Divisions 1:	Îles Tuamotu-Gambier
Country Largest City:	Rautini
Population:	826
Population As Of:	2022

Arutua
Commune Status:	Commune
Map:	Localización Palliser en las Tuamotu.png
Map Caption:	Location (in red) within the Tuamotu Archipelago
Administrative Subdivision:	Îles Tuamotu-Gambier
Utc Offset:	−10:00
Insee:	98713
Coordinates:	-15.2452°N -146.6121°W
Area Km2:	46.0
Population:	1736
Population Date:	2022
Population Footnotes:	^[1]

Arutua, or Ngaru-atua^[2] is an atoll in the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. It is located 40 km SW of Rangiroa. The closest land is Apataki Atoll, only 16 km to the East.

Arutua Atoll has a roughly pentagonal shape. Length 31km (19miles), width 24km (15miles) . The lagoon area is 484km2 and the land area is 15km2. Its lagoon is wide and deep with one navigable passage., Arutua had a population of 680 inhabitants. The main village is Rautini. There is a small airport at Arutua which was opened in 1984.

Geographically Arutua belongs to the Palliser Islands (Îles Palliser) subgroup of the Tuamotus.

History

The first recorded European to visit Arutua Atoll was Jakob Roggeveen (who also first sighted Easter Island) in 1722. British mariner Frederick Beechey touched at Arutua in 1826. He named this atoll "Cockburn Island".

Administration

This atoll is part of the commune of Arutua, which consists of Arutua, as well as the atolls of Apataki and Kaukura.^[3] The seat of the commune is the village Rautini.^[3] The commune is in the administrative subdivision of the Îles Tuamotu-Gambier.^[4]

Demographics

Island	Population (2017 census)^[5]	Area (km²)^[6]	Area of lagoon (km²)
	442	20.0	706
Arutua	808	15.0	484
	414	11.0	434
TOTAL	1664	46.0	1624

Table 1. Current population.

Island	2007	2012	2017
	495	350	442
Arutua	725	680	808
	541	475	414
TOTAL	1761	1505	1664

Table 2. Population over time.

References

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Les résultats du recensement de la population 2022 de Polynésie française. fr. Results of the 2022 population census of French Polynesia. Institut de la statistique de la Polynésie française. January 2023.
Young . J.L. . Names of the Paumotu Islands, with the old names so far as they are known. . Journal of the Polynesian Society . 1899 . 8 . 4 . 264–268 . 7 January 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120210193443/http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_8_1899/Volume_8%2C_No._4%2C_December_1899/Names_of_the_Paumotu_Islands%2C_by_J.L._Young%2C_p_264-268?action=null . 10 February 2012 .
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000695062 Décret n°72-407 du 17 mai 1972 portant création de communes dans le territoire de la Polynésie française
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2005/12/20/DOMA0500013D/jo/texte Décret n° 2005-1611 du 20 décembre 2005 pris pour l'application du statut d'autonomie de la Polynésie française
http://www.ispf.pf/docs/default-source/rp2017/repart_poplegale_communes_2017_v3.pdf Répartition de la population en Polynésie française en 2017
Web site: R1- Population sans doubles comptes, des subdivisions, communes et communes associées de Polynésie française, de 1971 à 1996. Institut de la statistique de la Polynésie française. 2019-03-14. 2012-11-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20121114000509/http://www.ispf.pf/Libraries/RP1996/r1.sflb.ashx. dead.