Vaitupu is the largest atoll of the nation of Tuvalu. It is located at 7.48 degrees south and 178.83 degrees east. There are 1,061 people living on 5.6 square kilometres with the main village being Asau.
Vaitupu atoll from space
Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands, northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north of Fiji.
A Tuvaluan man in traditional attire drawn by Alfred Agate in 1841, during the United States Exploring Expedition
Woman on Funafuti (1900) Photography by Harry Clifford Fassett
Stamps of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands with portraits of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
A beach at Funafuti atoll