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Point Venus is marked in this annotated Landsat image
Point Venus
Point Venus Lighthouse, Tahiti (LMS, 1869, p.)[1]
Point Venus
The lighthouse in 2017

Point Venus is a peninsula on the north coast of Tahiti, the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia. It is in the commune of Mahina, approximately 8 km east of the capital, Pape'ete. It lies at the northeast end of Matavai Bay.

  1. ^ London Missionary Society, ed. (1869). Fruits of Toil in the London Missionary Society. London: John Snow & Co. p. 12. Retrieved 12 September 2016.

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