Marotiri
- Landsat 7
- Path 048, Row 079
- 05 September 1999
Marotiri (formerly known as the Îlots de Bass) is the most southeasterly of all the Tubuai Islands, lying 80 km southeast from Rapa. Not strictly an island, but rather a collection of steeply emergent peaks and rocky outcrops, they are the youngest members of the Tubuai chain of seamounts to break the surface.
There are four main islets, each situated between 1.5 km and 3 km from one another: Northern Rock (0.58 ha), Central Rock (0.18 ha), Southern Rock (2.24 ha) and Western Rock (1.31 ha). The peaks emerge from a submarine platform of around 5 km in diameter located at an average depth of 100 m. Southern Rock reaches a height of 105 m above sea level.
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