translate English to German: It rises 15,600 feet (4750 m) above the ocean floor. It has a central volcanic plateau and, like many of the southern islands in the Cooks, it is surrounded by a high ring of cliffs of fossilised coral, called the makatea, in this case 200 feet (60 m) high.
Die Insel liegt etwa 200 km südostlich von Rarotonga , der Hauptinsel der Inselgruppe.