Motukitiu is one of 22

island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...

s in the

Aitutaki Aitutaki, also traditionally known as Araura and Utataki, is the second most-populated island in the Cook Islands, after Rarotonga. It is an "almost atoll", with fifteen islets in a lagoon adjacent to the main island. Total land area is , and the ...

atoll An atoll () is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon. There may be coral islands or cays on the rim. Atolls are located in warm tropical or subtropical parts of the oceans and seas where corals can develop. Most ...

of the

Cook Islands The Cook Islands is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands whose total land area is approximately . The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers of ocean. Avarua is its ...

. It is a small island located at the southeastern tip of Aitutaki Lagoon, one kilometre to the south of the larger island of

Tekopua Tekopua is one of 22 islands in the Aitutaki atoll of the Cook Islands. It is located on the southeastern perimeter of Aitutaki Lagoon between the smaller islands of Muritapua and Tapuaetai Tapuaetai (tapuae: footprint; ta'i: one), or "One Foo ...

and eight kilometres to the southeast of the main island of Aitutaki. The island is 450m long and 300m wide. This motu has been featured in three survival-based television programs. The Aitutaki tribe lived on this island during the 2006 filming of '' Survivor: Cook Islands''. Survivalist

Les Stroud Les Stroud (born 20 October 1961) is a Canadian survival expert, filmmaker and musician best known as the creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series '' Survivorman''. Stroud was named Chief Scout by Sco ...

filmed the sixteenth episode ("South Pacific") of his show ''

Survivorman ''Survivorman'' is a Canadian-produced television program, broadcast in Canada on the Outdoor Life Network (OLN), and internationally on Discovery Channel and Science Channel. The title refers to the host of the show, Canadian filmmaker and sur ...

'' on the island. In addition, the show

Man, Woman, Wild ''Man, Woman, Wild'' was a cable television reality series which originally aired on the Discovery Channel from July 2010 to January 2012. The show features former US Army Special Forces survival expert Mykel Hawke, and his television journalist ...

filmed an episode here for its first season.

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