Mount Tohivea

{{Short description|Mountain in French Polynesia}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Tohivea | image = Tohiea_lagon.jpg | image_caption = View of Mount Tohivea from the south | elevation_m = 1207 | elevation_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |title=World Ribus – Polynesia|url=https://worldribus.org/polynesia/ |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=World Ribus}}</ref> | prominence_m = 1207 | prominence_ref = | listing = Mountains of French Polynesia | location = Moorea, French Polynesia | map = Pacific Ocean | map_caption = Location of Mount Tohivea in the Pacific Ocean | map_size = | label_position = | coordinates = {{Coord|-17.5509115|-149.8221939|type:mountain_region:FR-PF|format=dms|display=inline,title}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Open Street Maps|url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2091298184|access-date=2025-08-08}}</ref> | coordinates_ref = | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 10 | mapframe-wikidata = yes | topo = | type = | age = | volcanic_zone = Society hotspot<ref name=“Trewick2008”></ref> | last_eruption = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = }}

'''Mount Tohivea''' (or '''Tohiea''') is the highest point on the island of Mo'orea in French Polynesia at {{convert|1207|m|ft|0}}. The mountain is about {{convert|3.2|km|mi}} south of the settlement of Pao Pao, and is easily visible from the west coast of nearby Tahiti, approximately {{convert|24|km|mi}} to the east.

Mount Tohivea, along with the adjacent peaks of Mouaroa and Mouaputa, is the remnant of the eroded crater rim of an extinct shield volcano.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Tahiti and French Polynesia |date=2009 |publisher=Fodor, Random House |isbn=978-1-4000-0683-0 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=68}}</ref> This volcano built Mo'orea between 1.9 and 1.5 million years ago,<ref name="Guillou1998">{{cite journal |last1=Guillou |first1=H. |last2=Biais |first2=S. |last3=Guille |first3=G. |last4=Maury |first4=R. C. |last5=Le Dez |first5=A. |last6=Cotten |first6=J. |year=1998 |title="Age (K-Ar) and duration of the subaerial build-up of Moorea, Raiatea and Maupiti (Society Islands, French Polynesia)" |url=http://geolfrance.brgm.fr/sites/default/files/upload/documents/gf3-3-1998.pdf |journal=Géologie de la France |language=fr |volume=3 |issue= |pages=29–36 |access-date=18 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/BF03352750.pdf |last1=Uto|first1=K.|last2=Yamamoto|first2=Y.|last3=Sudo|first3=M.|last4=Uchiumi|first4=S.|last5=Ishizuka|first5=O.|last6=Kogiso|first6=T.|last7=Tsunakawa|first7=H.|title=New K-Ar ages of the Society Islands, French Polynesia, and implications for the Society hotspot feature|journal=The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences|date=2007|volume=59|issue=7 |pages=879–885 |doi=10.1186/BF03352750 |bibcode=2007EP&S...59..879U |s2cid=55198201 |access-date=18 December 2022 |doi-access=free }}</ref> the result of geological activity from the Society Hotspot.<ref name=“Trewick2008”>{{cite journal |last1=Neall |first1=V.E. |last2=Trewick |first2=S.A. |date=2008 |title=The age and origin of the Pacific islands: A geological overview |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B |volume=363 |issue=1508 |pages=3293–3308 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2008.0119|pmid=18768382 |pmc=2607379 }}</ref>

Hiking trails on the mountain offer views north to Cook's and Opunohu bays, and east to Tahiti.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cityseeker.com/rest-of-french-polynesia/1179839-mount-tohivea |title= Mount Tohivea |publisher=CitySeeker |access-date=18 December 2022}}</ref>

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Tohivea Category:Moʼorea