🏞 Landscapes & nature
Rarotonga
island of the Cook Islands
🇨🇰 Cook Islands · -21.2333, -159.7833
Rarotonga is recorded as a filming location for 1 production.
“While shooting the film, Bowie was amazed that Ōshima had a two- to three-acre camp built on the remote Polynesian island of Rarotonga, but most of the camp was never shot on film.”
Movies filmed at Rarotonga
Named here by Rarotonga’s own Wikipedia article
Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Rarotonga, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.
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“A number of feature-length films are linked to Rarotonga: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, depicting a Japanese POW camp for British prisoners in the island of Java in the year 1942, was filmed here, The Other Side of Heaven, which is set in Niuatoputapu, Tonga, but was filmed in part on Rarotonga, and Johnny Lingo which was set here.” Wikipedia
Other filming locations in the Cook Islands
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Mangaia
🇨🇰 Cook Islands
island of the Southern Cook Islands
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Aitutaki
🇨🇰 Cook Islands
island of the Cook Islands
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Rarotonga?
1 production is recorded as filmed at Rarotonga, including Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983).
Where is Rarotonga?
Rarotonga is in the Cook Islands, at -21.2333, -159.7833.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.