Morane[2] is an uninhabited small isolated atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia.

The islands on its reef are covered with screw pine (Pandanus) and coconut trees.

The first recorded westerner to sight Morane Atoll was Captain Samuel Grimwood of the Discoverer, owned by the naturalist Hugh Cuming, on 15 January 1828.

Cited as such in the "Pacific Island Names" atlas published by Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii, in 1986.

[4] It also has one of the highest concentrations of the Tuamotu sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata), with approximately 150 to 200 individuals of the species.