Hararanga - is a rectangular atoll with a three by one and a half mile wide lagoon having encircling landforms lying near the reef. The settlement, Matara, is near the southwest opening in the reef, which is only large enough for small ships and ocean going yachts. There is a wharf where yachties can tie up and about 40 houses in the settlement on the southern motu. The airstrip lies on the western motu, but is infrequently used as Manihiki is only 25 miles away. Most visitors come by boat.
Economy comes from the sale of copra, the fiber of dried coconut.
In addition to the coconut trees, breadfruit are also in great quantity as well as a coarse tuber called puraka used as a vegetable in the local diet. There they signed a treaty of friendship on behalf of their two nations, an agreement which many refer to as the Treaty of Tarawa of 1979. Under that treaty the United States recognized Kiribati's sovereignty over these fourteen islands. This treaty entered into force on September 23, 1983. By the terms of this treaty the United States renounced its claim to these four atolls and acknowledged the sovereignty of the Cook Islands over them.