Fakaofo
Fakaofo, formerly known as Bowditch Island, is a South Pacific Ocean atoll located in the Tokelau Group. The actual land area is only about 3 km2, consisting of islets on a coral reef surrounding a central lagoon of some 45 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago in Tokelau
- Also known as: “Bowditch Island”, “Fakaofo Atoll”, and “Fakaofu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nukumatau.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fakaofo and Fale.
Fakaofo
Village
Photo: CloudSurfer, CC BY 2.5.
Fakaofo is a village on Fakaofo atoll in Tokelau. It is located to the north-west of the atoll. It is notable for its monument which is a coral slab personifying Tui Tokelau, a god once worshipped in the islands.
Fale
Village
Fale is an islet of the Fakaofo island group of Tokelau. The main settlement in the group is located on the island. As of 2018, 355 people lived on the islet.Fish is the main food source and the largest export product of the village.
Fakaofo
- Categories: archipelago, atoll, locality, and landform
- Location: Tokelau, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-9.3736° or 9° 22′ 25″ southLongitude
-171.2415° or 171° 14′ 29″ westPopulation
483United Nations Location Code
TK FKOOpen location code
622CJQG5+HCOpenStreetMap ID
node 583322702OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
4031112Wikidata ID
Q650847
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Satellite Map
Discover Fakaofo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Fakaofo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fakaofo”
- Arabic: “فاكاوفو”
- Armenian: “Ֆակաոֆո”
- Asturian: “Fakaofo”
- Bosnian: “Fakaofo”
- Catalan: “Bowditch Island”
- Catalan: “Fakaofo Atoll”
- Catalan: “Fakaofo”
- Cebuano: “Fakaofo”
- Chinese: “法考福環礁”
- Chinese: “法高弗”
- Croatian: “Fakaofo”
- Dutch: “Fakaofo”
- Estonian: “Fakaofo”
- Finnish: “Fakaofo”
- French: “Fakaofo”
- Galician: “Atol Fakaofo”
- German: “Fakaofo”
- Greek: “Φακαόφο”
- Italian: “Fakaofo”
- Japanese: “ファカオフォ島”
- Korean: “파카오푸”
- Latin: “Fakaofo”
- Latvian: “Fakaofo”
- Lithuanian: “Fakaofas”
- Luxembourgish: “Fakaofo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fakaofo”
- Norwegian: “Fakaofo”
- Persian: “فاکاوفو”
- Polish: “Fakaofo”
- Portuguese: “Fakaofo”
- Romanian: “Fakaofo”
- Russian: “Факаофо”
- Serbian: “Fakaofo”
- Slovenian: “Bowditch Island”
- Slovenian: “Fakaofo Atoll”
- Slovenian: “Fakaofo”
- Spanish: “Fakaofo”
- Swedish: “Fakaofo”
- Turkish: “Fakaofo”
- Ukrainian: “Факаофо”
- Urdu: “فکاؤفو”
- Yue Chinese: “法高弗”
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Highlights include Old Hospital and Te Afua Tau Tahi.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fakaofo”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.