Takaroa Coast

The Takaroa coast lies along an atoll of the Tuamotu group, about 27 kilometres long and 7 kilometres wide, with the atoll of Takapoto 10 kilometres to its southwest. The Dutch navigators Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten first recorded the atoll on 14 April 1616 and called it Sondergrond Island. Captain Cook visited in 1774.