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 left:ISS006-E-38478 Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov Hiti The shape of this uninhabited circular atoll is typically for the atolls of the central Tuamotu archipelago. In the north resp. north east it is relatively small and contains of wooded motus, the southern part in contrast is a much broader and mostly immersed. The motus in the north and northwest form together a land area of only 1,5 kmē. The lagoon by contrast has a size of 29 kmē. There is no channel to connect the lagoon with the ocean. |
| Flora of Hiti (incomplete) (green = pictures) Achyranthes velutina, Boerhavia tertrandra, Cassytha filiformis, Chamaesyce fosbergii, Cocos nucifera, Nesogenes euphrasioides, Pipturus argenteus var. tuamotensis, Scaevola taccada, Timonius polygamus |
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