Boscawen Island

Tafahi is a small in the north of the archipelago, in fact closer to Savaiʻi than to the main islands of Tonga. It is only 9 km north-northeast away from , and fishermen commute in small outboard motorboats almost daily between the two.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island of the Tonga archipelago
  • Also known as: Tafahi” and “Tafehi

Boscawen Island

Latitude
-15.8516° or 15° 51′ 6″ south
Longitude
-173.74688° or 173° 44′ 49″ west
Population
31
Open location code
52P847X3+96
Geo­Names ID
4032325
Wiki­data ID
Q283712
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Tonga—“Boscawen Island” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: Tafahi
  • Cebuano: Tafahi Island
  • Chinese: 塔法希島
  • Dutch: Tafahi
  • Egyptian Arabic: جبل تافاهى
  • Finnish: Tafahi
  • French: Tafahi
  • Galician: Tafahi
  • Georgian: ტაფაჰი
  • German: Boscawen-Insel
  • German: Cocos Eylant
  • German: Kokosinsel
  • German: Tafahi
  • Irish: Tafahi
  • Italian: Tafahi
  • Japanese: タファヒ島
  • Japanese: タファフィ島
  • Ladin: Tafahi
  • Lithuanian: Tafahis
  • Persian: تفاهی
  • Russian: Тафахи
  • Slovak: Tafahi
  • Spanish: Tafahi
  • Swedish: Tafahi
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): Tafahi
  • ma lili Tapawi
  • ma telo Tapawi

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Boscawen Island”. Photo: clr flickr, CC BY 2.0.