Mehetia

Mont Fareura
NASA Geocover 2000 image
Highest point
Elevation	435 m (1,427 ft)
Prominence	435 m (1,427 ft)
Coordinates	17°52′S 148°4′W / 17.867°S 148.067°W / -17.867; -148.067Coordinates: 17°52′S 148°4′W / 17.867°S 148.067°W / -17.867; -148.067
Geography
Location	Society Islands
Geology
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	Unknown

Meheti'a or Me'eti'a is a volcanic island in the Windward Islands, in the east of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. This island is a very young active stratovolcano 110 kilometres (68 mi) east of the Taiarapu Peninsula of Tahiti. It belongs to the Teahiti'a-Mehetia hotspot.

The island has an area of 2.3 square kilometres (0.89 sq mi) and its highest point is 435 metres (1,427 ft). Meheti'a's well-defined volcanic crater contains a very active hot point. In 1981 the island was the centre of earthquakes.

The first European sighting was by the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós on 9 February 1606, that charted it as Decena (ten in Spanish). Later on it was sighted by Samuel Wallis in HMS Dolphin 1767. It was also sighted by Spanish navigator Domingo de Boenechea on November 6, 1772 on ship Aguila. He named this island San Cristóbal.

Meheti'a is administratively part of the commune (municipality) of Taiarapu-Est and of its easternmost commune associée Tautira. The island is uninhabited and doesn't have much vegetation but has a small coral reef on the underwater slopes.