Lifuka Island
Lifuka Island is an island in Tonga. It sits approximately 170 kilometres north-east of the capital, Nukuʻalofa, and covers an area of 12.2 square kilometres.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Tonga
- Also known as: “Lefouka”, “Lefuka”, and “Lifuka”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pangai and Holopeka.
Holopeka
Hamlet
Holopeka is a settlement in Lifuka island, Tonga. The population is 132. Holopeka met international acclaim in the mid-1990s, as the ancestral home of New Zealand rugby player Jonah Lomu. Holopeka is situated 4 km north of Lifuka Island.
Koulo
Village
Koulo is a settlement in the north-west area of Lifuka island, Tonga. The population is 171. Koulo is situated 5 km north of Lifuka Island.
Lifuka Island
- Categories: limestone island and landform
- Location: Ha’apai, Tonga, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-19.82041° or 19° 49′ 14″ south
Longitude
-174.34813° or 174° 20′ 53″ west
Population
2,970
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
HPA
Open location code
52G75MH2+RP
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Satellite Map
Discover Lifuka Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Uzbek—“Lifuka Island” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Lifuka”
- Cebuano: “Lifuka Island”
- Chinese: “利富卡島”
- Czech: “Lifuka”
- Dutch: “Lifuka”
- Esperanto: “Lifuka”
- French: “Lifuka”
- Galician: “Lifuka”
- Georgian: “ლიფუკა”
- German: “Lifuka”
- Hebrew: “ליפוקה”
- Irish: “Lifuka”
- Italian: “Lifuka”
- Japanese: “リフカ島”
- Lithuanian: “Lifuka”
- Macedonian: “Лифука”
- Polish: “Lifuka”
- Russian: “Лифука”
- Spanish: “Lifuka”
- Swedish: “Lifuka”
- Thai: “ลีฟูกา”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Lifuka”
- Ukrainian: “Ліфука”
- Uzbek: “Lifuka”
- “ma lili Lipuka”
- “ma telo Lipuka”
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