Fonualei
Fonualei is an uninhabited volcanic island in the kingdom of Tonga. It 70 km northwest of Vavaʻu and 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.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Tonga
- Also known as: “Amargura”, “Fanoualei”, “Fanua Lai”, and “Gardner’s Island”
Fonualei
- Categories: volcano, volcanic island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Vava’u, Tonga, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-18.02273° or 18° 1′ 22″ south
Longitude
-174.31648° or 174° 18′ 59″ west
Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)
Open location code
52H7XMGM+WC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tonga—“Fonualei” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة فونوالي”
- Asturian: “Fonualei”
- Basque: “Fonualei”
- Bulgarian: “Фонуалеи”
- Catalan: “Fonualei”
- Cebuano: “Fonualei”
- Chinese: “佛努瓦累島”
- Chinese: “佛努阿雷島”
- Dutch: “Fonualei”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فونوالى”
- Esperanto: “Fonualei”
- French: “Fonualei”
- Galician: “Fonualei”
- Georgian: “ფონუალეი”
- German: “Fonualei”
- Hebrew: “פונואליי”
- Irish: “Fonualei”
- Italian: “Fonualei”
- Japanese: “フォヌアレイ島”
- Russian: “Фонуалеи”
- Slovak: “Fonualei”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Fonualei”
- “Fonualei”
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