Boscawen Island
Tafahi is a small island in the north of the Tonga archipelago, in fact closer to Savaiʻi than to the main islands of Tonga. It is only 9 km north-northeast away from Niuatoputapu, and fishermen commute in small outboard motorboats almost daily between the two.- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Tonga archipelago
- Also known as: “Tafahi” and “Tafehi”
Boscawen Island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tonga—“Boscawen Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تفاهي”
- 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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