Fuagea
| Fuagea | ||
|---|---|---|
| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Funafuti | |
| Geographical location | 8 ° 35 ′ S , 179 ° 4 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Fuagea (also: Fuakea ) is an island of Tuvalu in the southwestern part of the atoll of Funafuti .
Fuagea is part of the Funafuti Conservation Area , which was founded in 1996 to protect the special fauna and flora of the area. These include Lepidodactylus tepukapili , a type of gecko that has so far only been found on Fuagea and the nearby Tepuka .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Funafuti. Tuvaluislands.com.
- ↑ Admiralty Nautical Chart 2983 Tuvalu - Funafuti atoll, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)
- ↑ Andrick Lal: South Pacific Sea Level & Climate Monitoring Project - Funafuti atoll. /oip/FinalReport/Annex/3_Survey%20LDP/Survey_Diagrams_JPACE-TV.pdf, SPC Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC Division of SPC): 70.
- ↑ Kogatabu Funafuti Conservation Area
- Jump up ↑ George R. Zug, Dick Watling, Tataua Alefaio, Semese Alefaio, Claudia Ludescher: A new gecko (Reptilia: Squamata: Genus Lepidodactylus ) from Tuvalu, South-central Pacific. In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 2003, vol. 116, 1: 38-46
- ↑ Lepidodactylus tepukapili Zug, Watling, Alefaio, Alefaio & Ludescher . In: polynesian diversity . February 12, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2019.