Everything about Niutao totally explained
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.
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.
Transportation
There is a network of paved and/ or unpaved ways. There are no trains or airports.
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.
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