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Eiao

Nuku-Hiva, France

Eiao
Eiao. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Eiao is the largest of the extreme northwestern Marquesas Islands. The island is uninhabited, but is administratively part of the commune (municipality) of Nuku-Hiva, itself in the administrative subdivision of the Marquesas Islands. As of 2022, the only settlement on the island is a small shelter on the north coast of Vaithua Bay with a water tap. There are some small artificial structures in the north of the island, most likely for archeological purposes. There is a small shrine of Mother Mary somewhere along a trail to the plateau at the top of the island.

NatureReserve data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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