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Article: TUVALU.(Polynesian atoll and nation)(Statistical Data Included)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Picture an arc-shaped 70-kilometre string of pearls on an azure sea near the equator... The hub of Tuvalu, the Funafuti Atoll, is home for about 4,000 of the country's 10,000 Polynesian people. You can cross it from side to side in five minutes, yet to circumnavigate the 30 sparse coral islets in this atoll can take more than a day. Nine island groups form the country of Tuvalu, which actually means 'eight' in the local language because only eight are permanently settled.
One of the smallest independent countries in the world, Tuvalu is a nation of contradictions, ingenious solutions and small miracles. Formerly the Ellice part of the British colony of the ...
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