Vatoa
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Vatoa (pronounced ) (known as Turtle Island after Cook's visit) is an outlier of Fiji's Lau Group.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Vatoa
- Islands.native_name
- Turtle Island
- Islands.image_name
- Vatoa.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- Aerial view of Vatoa.
- Islands.location
- South Pacific Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Lau Islands
- Islands.waterbody
- Koro Sea
- Islands.area_km2
- 4.45
- Islands.width_km
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- Islands.width_m
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- Islands.elevation_m
- 50
- Islands.pushpin_map
- Fiji
- Islands.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Division
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Eastern
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Province
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Lau
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_2
- District
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Lau Islands
- Country
- Fiji
- Located in
- Lau
- Population
- 300
- Area
- 4.45
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Vatoa.jpg
- Width
- 1.4
- Length
- 4.2
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Government
- Shipwrecks of Vatoa and associated reef Vuata Vatoa
- References
- External links
Vatoa (pronounced ) (known as Turtle Island after Cook's visit) is an outlier of Fiji's Lau Group.
==History== Vatoa was the only island of present-day Fiji visited by James Cook. The island was sighted on 2 July 1774. The next day, a Sunday, the Master and some of Cook's crew went ashore: Cook's chart shows the name Turtle Isle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vatoa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations