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Tafahi
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Tafahi is a small () island in the north of the Tonga archipelago, in fact closer to Savaii (Samoa) than to the main islands of Tonga. It is only north-northeast away from Niuatoputapu, and fishermen commute in small outboard motorboats almost daily between the two. The island has a population of 14 (in 2021).

Key facts

Mountain.name
Tafahi
Mountain.photo
NiuatoputapuISS002-E-9889.PNG
Mountain.photo_caption
NASA picture of Niuatoputapu and Tafahi.
Mountain.elevation_m
546
Mountain.prominence_m
546
Mountain.location
Tonga
Mountain.formed_by
Subduction zone volcanism
Mountain.type
Stratovolcano
Mountain.last_eruption
Unknown

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Tafahi is a small () island in the north of the Tonga archipelago, in fact closer to Savaii (Samoa) than to the main islands of Tonga. It is only north-northeast away from Niuatoputapu, and fishermen commute in small outboard motorboats almost daily between the two. The island has a population of 14 (in 2021).

Other names for Tafahi are Cocos Eylant (coconut island) or Boscawen island.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tafahi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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