Location of Marquesas IslandsFrench PolynesiaMarquesas Islands
Island group

Marquesas Islands

Surface area
997 km²
Elevation
1,230 m
Highest point
Mount Oave
Named after
García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete
Countries
French Polynesia
Wikidata
Q172697

Among the world's island groups

Each line is every one of the island groups in this atlas that carries the measurement, ordered smallest to largest. The line down the middle is the median; the mark on each line is this one. Deserts are not ranked against lakes — the comparison is always within the same kind.

  1. Surface area997 km²73rd of 95 · median 2,624 km²
  2. Elevation1,230 m40th of 74 · median 1,295 m

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