North Islands Attractions

 
The islands in the northern group (total area 28sq.km/17sq.mi) are Penrhyn, Rakahanga, Manihiki, Pukapuka, Suwarrow, Palmerston and Nassau.

These atolls consist of narrow elongated reef islands (motus), reaching a maximum height of 3-6m above sea level, set round a central lagoon. Some of the motus were once larger, as old beach defenses and cliff lines show, but have been partly destroyed by tidal waves resulting from hurricanes (as, for example, in 1942). On the seaward side the beaches have been raised by the shingle and boulders thrown up by the surf and by beach defenses; on the lagoon side they fall away gently.

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