Moturakau

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Moturakau is one of 15 islands in the Aitutaki atoll of the Cook Islands. It is located in the southeast of Aitutaki Lagoon between the larger islands of Rapota and Tekopua, six kilometres to the southeast of the main island of Aitutaki. The island is 460m long and 120m wide.{{cite book |url=http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/190/v190.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090918202141/http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/190/v190.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 September 2009 |chapter=Reef Islands of Aitutaki |author=D. R. Stoddart |title=Atoll Research Bulletin No 190, Almost-Atoll of Aitutaki, Reef Studies in the Cook Islands, South Pacific |editor=D.R. Stoddard and P.E. Gibbs |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |date=13 August 1975 |page=69-70 |accessdate=4 August 2020}}

Moturakau served as a leper colony from the 1930s to 1967.{{cite book |title=South Pacific Handbook |author=David Stanley |publisher=Moon |location=Emeryville, CA |date=2000 |page=337 |edition=7th }} More recently, it was home to the 'Sharks' for four years of the UK reality TV programme Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands and was also used for Survivor: Cook Islands, the 13th season of the American version of Survivor.