Niulakita
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Ellice Islands | |
| Geographical location | 10 ° 47 '20 " S , 179 ° 28' 22" E | |
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| length | 1.1 km | |
| width | 600 m | |
| surface | 42 ha | |
| Residents | 27 (2012) 64 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Niulakita | |
Niulakita is the southernmost island of Tuvalu . Together with Niutao , Niulakita forms one of the eight districts of the island state , the Niutao district . The only village on the island is Niulakita of the same name on the southwest coast. The island has 27 inhabitants (as of 2012). All residents migrated from the overpopulated island of Niutao since 1949.
It is an elliptically shaped island about one kilometer in diameter and 42 hectares of land.
history
In the 16th century, the island was approached by various European seafarers and received different names such as La Solitaria , Independence , Sophia or Rocky . The first sighting is now attributed to Alvaro de Mendaña de Neyra 1595.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the island was owned by the American merchant HJ Moors. The atoll was uninhabited until 1949 and was settled by settlers from the overpopulated Niutao .
The island was bought by Great Britain in 1944 .
Web links
- History of the island (English)
- Map of the island (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Falekaupule Act. Government of Tuvalu, 1997, No. 8; 2008 revised edition, CAP. 4.08, Schedule 1, p. 56, accessed on July 29, 2014
- ^ Tuvalu Online GIS. Tuvalu Central Statistics Office, January 2015, accessed January 8, 2015 .
- ^ Barrie Macdonald: Cinderellas of the Empire. Institute of Pacific Studies, Suva, Fiji 2001, ISBN 982-02-0335-X , p. 14. Preview in Google Book Search. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- ^ The Cyclopedia of Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands . McCarron, Stewart & Co, Sydney 1907. Part Samoa , p. 88.