Tuvana-i-Colo

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Tuvana-i-Colo
NASA image of Tuvana-i-Colo (right) and Tuvana-i-Ra (left)
NASA image of Tuvana-i-Colo (right) and Tuvana-i-Ra (left)
Waters Pacific Ocean
Geographical location 21 ° 0 ′  S , 178 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 21 ° 0 ′  S , 178 ° 44 ′  W
Tuvana-i-Colo (Fiji)
Tuvana-i-Colo
Number of islands 1
length 1.7 km
width 1.65 km
Land area 38 ha
total area 2.25 km²
Residents uninhabited
Template: Infobox Atoll / Maintenance / HoeheFehlt

Tuvana-i-Colo , often referred to as Tuvana-i-Tholo , is an uninhabited coral island in the southeast of the island state of Fiji in the Pacific Ocean . The 1.7 km long and almost 0.4 km² large island is around 25 km south of Ono-i-Lau , the southernmost inhabited atoll in Fiji, and 8 km east-northeast of the neighboring atoll Tuvana-i-Ra and is the second southernmost Atoll of the Lau Archipelago . It is completely surrounded by a fringing reef .

Web links

  • Map of Fiji , on which Tuvana-i-Colo and Tuvana-i-Ra are also recorded (PDF; English; 6.6 MB)

Remarks

  1. In Fiji the "c" is pronounced as "th" (as in English "this" )

Individual evidence

  1. Coral Reefs of the World, Vol. 3 (excerpt; English)