Oceania
140
Documented species
1
Parks and reserves
3
Dive sites
140 species found
Based on what we already know about French Polynesia.
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One of the best places in the world to see the largest documented aggregation of grey reef sharks during the groupers' annual spawning
The second largest atoll in French Polynesia, with an enormous lagoon and only two passes connecting it to the ocean: Garuae to the north, the widest navigable channel in Polynesia at some 1,600 m, and Tumakohua to the south, barely a hundred metres across. It is in that southern pass that the "shark wall" forms: hundreds of grey reef sharks resting in formation through the day as the current floods in.
An iconic turquoise lagoon with manta ray cleaning stations reachable even by beginners.
The second-largest atoll in the world. At the mouth of the Tiputa Pass a shoal of grey sharks gathers at around 40 m when the current is right.
Pram Bug
Phronima sedentaria
Dwarf Sperm Whale
Kogia sima
Pacific Boa
Candoia carinata
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Pycnonotus jocosus
Blacktip Reef Shark
Carcharhinus melanopterus
Live Sharksucker
Echeneis naucrates
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarola
Common House Gecko
Hemidactylus frenatus
Shortfin Mako
Isurus oxyrinchus
Spotted Seahorse
Hippocampus kuda
Common Myna
Acridotheres tristis
Brahminy Blindsnake
Indotyphlops braminus