Tofua
Tofua is a volcanic island in Tonga. Located in the Haʻapai island group, it is a steep-sided composite cone with a summit caldera. It is part of the highly active Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone and its associated volcanic arc, which extends from New Zealand north-northeast to Fiji, and is formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Indo-Australian Plate.- Island
- …has about 200 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 520 metres (1,690 feet)
- Description: island in Tonga
- Also known as“Tofoa”“Toofoa”
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Latitude
-19.74306° or 19° 44′ 35″ south
Longitude
-175.06685° or 175° 4′ 1″ west
Open location code
52G67W4M+Q7
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Tofua” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توفوا”
- Asturian: “Tofua”
- Catalan: “Tofua”
- Cebuano: “Tofua Island”
- Chinese: “托富阿岛”
- Chinese: “托富阿島”
- Czech: “Tofua”
- Dutch: “Tofua”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل توفوا”
- French: “Amatofua”
- French: “Tofooa”
- French: “Tofua”
- Galician: “Tofua”
- Georgian: “ტოფუა”
- German: “Tofua”
- Hebrew: “טופואה”
- Hungarian: “Tofua”
- Indonesian: “Tofua”
- Irish: “Tofua”
- Italian: “Tofua”
- Japanese: “トファ山”
- Japanese: “トファ島”
- Japanese: “トフア島”
- Lithuanian: “Tofua”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tofua”
- Norwegian: “Tofua”
- Persian: “توفوآ”
- Russian: “Тофуа”
- Slovak: “Tofua”
- Spanish: “Tofua”
- Swedish: “Tofua”
- Thai: “โตฟัว”
- Thai: “โตฟูอา”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tofua”
- Ukrainian: “Тофуа”
- “ma lili Topuwa”
- “ma telo Topuwa”
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