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.
Brown Noddy
Anous stolidus
Blainville's Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon densirostris
Giant Carpet Anemone
Stichodactyla gigantea
Disc Anemone
Discosoma nummiforme
Ritteri Anemone
Heteractis magnifica
Warty Slug
Onchidium verruculatum
Pygmy Sperm Whale
Kogia breviceps
Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp
Lysmata amboinensis
Peacock Mantis Shrimp
Odontodactylus scyllarus
Spanner Crab
Ranina ranina
Chilean Hermit Crab
Pagurus edwardsii
Portuguese Man-of-war
Physalia physalis
Least Concern
