Tafahi
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Tafahi is a small island in the north of the Tonga archipelago, in fact closer to Savaiʻi than to the main islands of Tonga. It is only 9 km north-northeast away from Niuatoputapu, and fishermen commu
Dutch sailors Willem Schouten and Jacob le Maire were the first Europeans to see Tafahi and Niuatoputapu in 1616.
Futuna (Wallis and Futuna)
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Futuna is the largest island in Hoorn Islands or Îles Horne, located in the Pacific Ocean, part of the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna. The island occupies an area of 80 km2 and as o
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…more of the Tale van het Cocos Eylant. It was not until 1945 that it was discovered that those labeled as from Cocoa Island were in reality words from Futuna, and those mislabeled as the Solomons Islands (where the Eendracht would not come at all) were actually from Tafahi. The many errors (e.g., the printer…
The Hoorn Islands Futuna and Alofi. Futuna Island in the northwest.
Futuna and Alofi (photo: NASA)