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Marotiri is a group of four uninhabited
volcanic A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...
rocks protruding from the sea (and several submerged rocks), forming the southeastern end of the
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of
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. Marotiri is also known as Bass Rocks (''Îlots de Bass'' in French), maybe according to the name of the European explorer George Bass. Marotiri is very isolated, located about west-south-westward of
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. The closest island is Rapa Iti, 75 km farther northwest, but separated from it by an ocean depth of more than 1,500 meters.According to the French hydrographic office ( SHOM)
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s 6607, there is a depth of 1,646 meters midway between Rapa and Marotiri. The rocks are part of the
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of Rapa. The climate is wet temperate. The lower rocks are almost devoid of vegetation - although there is some vegetation on the upper slopes and summits. They are important as a seabird rookery. Fish abound in the adjacent waters. The rocks emerge from a submarine platform 100 meters deep and 5 km in diameter. They lie at a distance between 1.5 and 3 km from one another. The total land area is 43,100 m2, which is broken down as follows by the individual rocks: The southern rock is the largest, with a height of 113 meters at its highest point.


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Islands of the Austral Islands Volcanic plugs of Oceania Uninhabited islands of French Polynesia {{FrenchPolynesia-geo-stub