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 left:ISS006-E-38487 Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov Tureia This atoll reaches a length of 13 km and a wide of 7,5 km. Because of its vicinity to the Mururoa Atoll this atoll was definitely exposed to the 'nuclear fallout' during the nuclear tests on Mururoa, that means the radioactive contamination is here obviously higher then in non-contaminated places. |
| Flora of Tureia (incomplete) (green = pictures) Achyranthes velutina, Boerhavia tetrandra, Cassytha filiformis, Cocos nucifera, Digitaria stenotaphrodes, Guettarda speciosa, Nesogenes euphrasioides, Pemphis acidula, Scaevola taccada, Suriana maritima, Triumfetta procumbens |
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