Fatu Huku is a small island in the Marquesas Islands, nearly halfway between Hiva ‘Oa and Nuku Hiva. National motto: Mau‘u‘u ha‘e iti Official languages French, Tahitian Political status Dependent territory, administrative division of French Polynesia Capital Tai o Hae Largest City Tai o Hae Area 1,274 km² ( 492 sq. ... Hiva `Oa is the second largest island in the Marquesas Islands, and the largest island of the southern group. ... Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. ...

Fatu Huku is located at 9.43°S latitude and 138.93°W longitude, and consists primariliy of a high plateau that rises to 361 m (1,184 ft.). Latitude, denoted φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... Map of Earth showing curved lines of longitude Longitude, sometimes denoted λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... For alternate uses of the term, see Plateau (disambiguation). ...

The island was likely only ever inhabited in legend. The story of the demigod Tana-Oa, patron of fishermen, says that the island was once fertile and green, until the sea, jealous of its beauty, turned the island upside down. It is said that this is how the island came to have coral on its flat top. A demigod, a half-god, is a person whose one parent was a god and whose other parent was a human. ... Orders see Anthozoa zsnobordinkid505@aol. ...

On the plateau are a number of small platforms, which were likely used in sacrificial ceremonies by the fishermen who frequented its waters in pre-European times. Sacrifice (is a Middle English verb meaning to make sacred, from Old French, from Latin sacrificium : sacer, sacred; sacred + facere, to make) is commonly known as the practice of offering food, or the lives of animals or people to the gods, as an act of propitiation or worship. ... A ceremony is an activity, infused with ritual significance, performed on a certain occasion. ... World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...