Mount Ronui

Mont Toonui
Location
Location	Tahiti
Coordinates	17°49′22″S 149°12′55″W / 17.822767°S 149.215352°W / -17.822767; -149.215352Coordinates: 17°49′22″S 149°12′55″W / 17.822767°S 149.215352°W / -17.822767; -149.215352
Geology
Last eruption	Unknown

Mount Ronui (labeled Roonui) is located in southern Tahiti.

Mount Ronui (also Roniu, Roonui and Rooniu) is a shield volcano of 1332m^[1] (or 1321m^[2]) in Tahiti Iti, the southern part of Tahiti in French Polynesia in the south Pacific. It is one of the principal peaks on the island and the highest in Tahiti Iti.^[1]

It is one of three volcanoes to which the formation of Tahiti is attributed.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Hilary Rodgers (2003). Tahiti & French Polynesia. Tony Wheeler, Jean-Bernard Carillet. Lonely Planet. ISBN 1740592298. http://books.google.com/books?id=6NUSbK-8bpQC. 
2. ^ "Tahiti" (in Italian). Arcipelago delle Società l'isola de Tahiti. Isole della Società. http://www.polinesia.it/tahiti/index.html. Retrieved 2008-01-29. 
3. ^ "Tahiti Background: Geography". Island Hopping from Shore to Shore: A Student Travel Guide to the South Pacific. Simon Fraser University. http://www.sfu.ca/geog/geog351fall05/group11/main_frame_TaB.html. Retrieved 2008-01-29.