Editing Moruroa (section)

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{{short description|Atoll in French Polynesia}}
{{Infobox Islands
| name             = Moruroa
| image_name       = Moruroa atoll.JPG
| image_caption    = [[NASA]] picture of Moruroa Atoll
| map = French Polynesia
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| native_name      =
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| location         = [[Pacific Ocean]]
| coordinates      = {{Coord|21|50|S|138|50|W|type:isle_region:FR-PF|display=inline,title}}
| archipelago      = [[Tuamotus]]
| total_islands    = 
| major_islands    = 
| area_km2         = 148
| area_footnotes   =  {{sp}}(lagoon)<br />{{convert|15|km2|1|abbr=on}} ([[above sea level|above water]])
| length_km        = 28
| width_km         = 11
| highest_mount    = 
| elevation_m      = 
| country          = France
| country_admin_divisions_title     = [[Overseas collectivity]]
| country_admin_divisions           = [[French Polynesia]]
| country_admin_divisions_title_2   = [[Communes of France|Commune]]
| country_admin_divisions_2         = [[Tureia]]
| country_admin_divisions_title_1   = [[French Polynesia#Administrative divisions|Administrative subdivision]]
| country_admin_divisions_1         = [[Tuamotus]]
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| population       = Uninhabited<ref>{{cite web|title=Population|url=http://www.ispf.pf/bases/Recensements/2012/Donnees_detaillees.aspx|website=Institut de la statistique de la Polynésie française|access-date=9 October 2014|archive-date=29 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329080620/http://www.ispf.pf/bases/Recensements/2012/Donnees_detaillees.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| population_as_of = 2012
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'''Moruroa''' (Mururoa, Mururura), also historically known as '''Aopuni''',<ref name="Alternative Names">{{cite journal|last1=Young|first1=J.L.|title=Names of the Paumotu Islands, with the old names so far as they are known.|journal=Journal of the Polynesian Society|date=1899|volume=8|issue=4|pages=264–268|url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_8_1899/Volume_8,_No._4,_December_1899/Names_of_the_Paumotu_Islands,_by_J.L._Young,_p_264-268?action=null|access-date=7 January 2015}}</ref>  is an [[atoll]] which forms part of the [[Tuamotu Archipelago]] in [[French Polynesia]] in the southern [[Pacific Ocean]]. It is located about {{convert|1250|km}} southeast of [[Tahiti]]. Administratively Moruroa Atoll is part of the [[Commune of France|commune]] of [[Tureia]], which includes the atolls of [[Tureia]], [[Fangataufa]], [[Tematangi]] and [[Vanavana]]. France undertook [[nuclear weapon tests]] between 1966 and 1996 at Moruroa and [[Fangataufa]], causing international protests, notably in 1974 and 1995. The number of tests performed on Moruroa has been variously reported as 175 and 181.