Nomuka

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Nomuka
Map of Nomuka and surroundings
Map of Nomuka and surroundings
Waters Pacific Ocean
Archipelago Ha'apai
Geographical location 20 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  S , 174 ° 47 ′ 20 ″  W Coordinates: 20 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  S , 174 ° 47 ′ 20 ″  W
Location of Nomuka
surface 7.12 km²
Highest elevation Koto Maka
45  m
Residents 474
67 inhabitants / km²
main place Nomuka

Nomuka (also Numuka , earlier Rotterdam or Namuka ) is a 7.12 km² island that belongs to the Kingdom of Tonga . The island has a shallow, swampy brackish lake called Ano Ava (word meaning: swamp hole), with three small islands: Puhoʻava, Loto (the largest island) and Tefisi. The southern bulge of the lake, Mamaha (word meaning: shallow), is even shallower . The lake extends over an area of ​​around 2.5 km² and thus takes up a good third of the island's area.

The island lies to the north of the Nomuka Bank , the largest submarine bank in the Tonga Islands.

The population decreased from 550 to 474 between the 1996 and 2006 censuses. The island is located in the Ha'apai archipelago . Nomuka can only be reached by boat and there are weekly boats from Nukuʻalofa and Lifuka .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WM Davis: Coral Reefs and Submarine Banks, in: The Journal of Geology, 1918
  2. ↑ Geohive: Tonga
Aerial view of Nomuka (distorted because it is angled)