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'''Moturakau''' is one of 15 [[island]]s 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
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Moturakau served as a [[leper colony]] from the 1930s to 1967.<ref>{{cite book |title=South Pacific Handbook |author=David Stanley |publisher=Moon |location=Emeryville, CA |date=2000 |page=337 |edition=7th }}</ref> 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 [[Survivor (American TV series)|American version of ''Survivor'']].<br />
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