| Tauere | |
| Map: | French Polynesia |
| Location: | Pacific Ocean |
| Archipelago: | Tuamotus |
| Area Km2: | 60 |
| Area Footnotes: | (lagoon) 3.9km2 (above water) |
| Length Km: | 7.5 |
| Country: | France |
| Country Admin Divisions Title: | Overseas collectivity |
| Country Admin Divisions: | French Polynesia |
| Country Admin Divisions Title 2: | Commune |
| Country Admin Divisions 2: | Hao |
| Country Admin Divisions Title 1: | Administrative subdivision |
| Country Admin Divisions 1: | Tuamotus |
| Population: | 3[1] |
| Population As Of: | 2012 |
Tauere Atoll or Taouere, also known as Te Putua, is a small atoll of the central Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. It is located 850NaN0 northwest of Hao Atoll's westernmost point.[2]
Tauere Atoll is squarish in shape. It measures 7.51NaN1 across. The islands are located on its northern and eastern sides. Its lagoon is not connected to the ocean by a pass, which makes this small atoll quite inaccessible.
Tauere has only 3 inhabitants. In 2007 it had 7 inhabitants.[3]
The first European recorded sight of the atoll was by the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernandez de Quirós on 12 February 1606. They charted it as La Decena.[4] Tauere was again sighted by Spanish navigator Domingo de Boenechea on October 28, 1772 on the ship Aguila.[5] He sailed from Callao on September 26, 1772, to establish a colony on Tahiti.[6] He called this atoll San Simon y Judas.[7] Hence this atoll appears in some maps as St. Simon.[8]
Administratively Tauere belongs to the commune of Amanu (Main village: Ikitake) which includes the atolls of Rekareka (uninhabited) and Tauere.The Amanu commune is associated with the Hao commune.