Niutao

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Niutao is an island in the country of Tuvalu.

It is one of the nine districts (atolls) of Tuvalu, and one of the three who consist of only one island. It has a population (2002 census) of 663.

[edit] Geography

There are two lakes (ponds or lagoons). The biggest has three islands and a dam. There are three wells, pits, deepths or springs (?). The only village is Tuapa (with the neighbourhood of Angafoulua). There is a Maneapa (community hall), a church, a post office, and a well, pit, deepth or spring (one of the three). A half mile (800 m) away is the graveyard, and a quarter of a mile (400 m) the hospital. The hospital and the village are in the west (village south, hospital north) of the island and the graveyard in the south-middle of the isle. The island is about a horizontal oval which has a length of about one mile (1.6 km). There is a lot of dry vegetation and a few of little mangrove forests. A reef surrounds the whole island.