Horn Islands
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean |
| Geographical location | 14 ° 17 ′ S , 178 ° 9 ′ W |
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| Number of islands | 2 |
| Main island | Futuna |
| Total land area | 64 km² |
| Residents | 3220 (2018) |
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The Horn Islands (also Hoorn Islands or Futuna Islands ) are a little in the South Pacific west-southwest of Samoa and northeast of the Fiji Islands located, politically to the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna belonging, archipelago . Geographically, the islands belong to Polynesia .
The group is made up of the islands of Futuna , the main island with an area of 46 km² , and the smaller island of Alofi (about 18 km²) to the southeast and some offshore reefs . The total land area of the Horn Islands is 64 km².
population
In 2013 there were 3,612 people living on Futuna. The neighboring island of Alofi is used by the islanders to grow coconuts , exotic fruits and vegetables and is mostly only inhabited seasonally (a permanent resident in 2013). The total population of the archipelago has since fallen to 3220 inhabitants (2018).
history
- 1616 - Futuna and Alofi are discovered in May 1616 by the Dutch Jacob Le Maire and Willem Cornelisz Schouten , who named the islands the Horn ( Dutch: Hoorn ) islands in honor of the home port of their expedition, Hoorn .
- 1768 - The archipelago is "rediscovered" by the French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville ; he calls her "Futuna - the lost child of the Pacific".
- 1887 - Several Polynesian kings in the South Seas, including the King of Sigave, sign a protectorate treaty with France .
- 1961 - Following a referendum, the Horn Islands and the Wallis Islands become a (partially) autonomous French overseas territory . The area was given the name "Wallis-et-Futuna", which is still used today.
See also
literature
- Claude Dorwling-Carter (Ed.): Wallis-et-Futuna - Rapport annuel 2016 . Institut d'Émission d'Outre-Mer (IEOM), Paris 2017 (French, online [PDF; 1,2 MB ; accessed on December 2, 2017]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wallis-et-Futuna. Geography. République française - Ministère des Outre-mer, November 30, 2016, accessed on December 2, 2017 (French).
- ↑ Populations légales des îles Wallis et Futuna en 2013. Populations des villages. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), November 21, 2013, accessed on December 2, 2017 (French).
- ↑ Populations légales des îles Wallis et Futuna en 2013. Populations des circonscriptions. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), November 21, 2013, accessed on December 2, 2017 (French).
- ↑ Recensement de la population 2018. (PDF; 336 kB) (No longer available online.) In: statistique.wf. Service Territorial de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (STSEE), 2018, archived from the original on November 29, 2018 ; accessed on November 29, 2018 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
