Bora Bora is an island belonging to the archipelago of the Society Islands, precisely in the group of the Leeward Islands, in the Pacific Ocean. Administratively it is included in the overseas collectivity of French Polynesia and includes the municipality of the same name (capital of Vaitape), to which the atoll of Tupai also belongs.
Located 250 km north-west of Tahiti, Bora Bora has a rather unique conformation. In fact, the island itself is located in the middle of a lagoon, surrounded on the north and east by two long motus, called Motu Mute (on which Bora Bora airport is located) and Motu Piti Aau respectively. To the north-east the coral reef surfaces with small motu, separated by short stretches of shallow sea, and with the islet of Tevairoa.
Finally to the south-west another motu rises, Motu Toopua. Between the latter and Tevairoa there is another small islet, Teavanui, near which there is the only point where the coral reef breaks off and through which the lagoon can communicate (especially at the level of naval connections) with the 'Ocean. For the rest the coral reef surrounds Bora Bora like a dam, and this also to the south, where motu or islets do not emerge from the water
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info: The aforementioned particular form is due to the origin of Bora Bora, which in ancient times (it is estimated during the upper Pliocene, precisely between 3.45 and 3.10 million years ago) was a gigantic volcanic complex, which with the the years passed underwent a gradual sinking.
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