Atafu
Atafu, formerly known as the Duke of York Group, is a group of 52 coral islets within Tokelau in the south Pacific Ocean, 500 kilometres north of Samoa.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: atoll of Tokelau
- Also known as: “Atáfu Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Atafu Village.
Atafu
- Categories: atoll, reef island, locality, and landform
- Location: Tokelau, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-8.5533° or 8° 33′ 12″ south
Longitude
-172.4906° or 172° 29′ 26″ west
Population
524
Open location code
6239CGW5+MQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
Discover Atafu from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Atafu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Atafu”
- Arabic: “أتافو”
- Armenian: “Ատաֆու”
- Asturian: “Atafu”
- Belarusian: “Атафу”
- Bosnian: “Atafu”
- Catalan: “Atafu”
- Cebuano: “Atafu”
- Chinese: “阿塔富”
- Chinese: “阿塔富環礁”
- Croatian: “Atafu”
- Czech: “Atafu”
- Dutch: “Atafu”
- Estonian: “Atafu”
- Finnish: “Atafu”
- French: “Atafu”
- Galician: “Atol Atafu”
- German: “Atafu”
- Greek: “Ατάφου”
- Icelandic: “Atafu”
- Indonesian: “Atafu”
- Italian: “Atafu”
- Japanese: “アタフ島”
- Kazakh: “Атафу”
- Komering: “Atafu”
- Korean: “아타푸 섬”
- Korean: “아타푸”
- Latin: “Atafu”
- Latvian: “Atafu”
- Lithuanian: “Atafu”
- Malay: “Atafu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Atafu”
- Norwegian: “Atafu”
- Persian: “اتافو”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Atafu”
- Polish: “Atafu”
- Pushto: “آتافو”
- Romanian: “Atafu”
- Russian: “Атафу”
- Serbian: “Атафу”
- Shona: “Atafu”
- Slovak: “Atafu”
- Slovenian: “Atafu”
- Spanish: “Atafu”
- Swedish: “Atafu”
- Thai: “อาตาฟู”
- Turkish: “Atafu”
- Ukrainian: “Атафу”
- Urdu: “اٹافو”
- Yue Chinese: “阿塔富”
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