Niutao

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Niutao

Niutao is an island in the northern part of Tuvalu.

It is one of the nine districts (atolls) of Tuvalu, and one of the three who consist of only one island, not counting the three islets inside the closed lagoon. It has a population (2002 census) of 663.

[edit] Geography

There are two lakes (ponds or lagoons), which are brackish to saline. The larger has three islands and a dam. There are three wells, pits, deepths or springs (?). Older maps show only village is Tuapa (with the neighbourhood of Angafoulua). Official sources of the 2002 census of population, by contrast, list the main village of Kulia (pop. 224) and the village of Teava (pop. 439). There is a maneapa (community hall), a church, a post office, and three wells. 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.

In 1949, people from overpopulated Niutao settled on hitherto uninhabited Niulakita.

[edit] Transportation

There is a network of paved and/ or unpaved ways. There are no trains or airports.

[edit] Notable local people

Sir Tomu Sione, former Governor General of Tuvalu, and subsequently Speaker of the Parliament of Tuvalu, represents the constituency in the Parliament.

Tavau Teii, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Natural Resources in the Government of Tuvalu, is from Niutao. He represents the constituency in the Parliament of Tuvalu.

v • d • e Islands and atolls of Tuvalu

Islands	Nanumanga • Niulakita • Niutao

Atolls	Funafuti • Nanumea • Nui • Nukufetau • Nukulaelae • Vaitupu

Islets of Funafuti	Amatuku • Avalau • Falaoigo • Fale Fatu • Fatato • Fongafale • Fuafatu • Fuagea • Fualefeke • Fualopa • Funafala • Funamanu • Luamotu • Mateika • Motugie • Motuloa • Mulitefala Nukusavalevale • Papa Elise • Pukasavilivili • Te Afuafou • Te Afualiku • Tefala • Telele • Tengasu • Tepuka • Tepuka Vili Vili • Tutanga • Vasafua

Islets of Nanumea	Lakena • Lefogaki • Teatua a Taepoa • Temotufoliki

Islets of Nui	Fenua Tapu • Meang • Motupuakaka • Pakantou • Piliaieve • Pongalei • Talalolae • Tokinivae • Unimai

Islets of Nukufetau	Faiava Lasi • Fale • Funaota • Kongo Loto Lafanga • Lafanga • Matanukulaelae • Motufetau • Motulalo • Motuloa (north of Nukufetau) • Motuloa (south of Nukufetau) • Motumua • Niualuka • Niuatui • Oua • Sakalua • Savave • Teafatule • Teafuaniua • Teafuanonu • Teafuone • Temotuloto

Islets of Vaitupu	Luasamotu • Isles of Mosana • Motutanifa • Temotu • Te Motu Olepa • Tofia