Tuvalu | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-31

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00:03:26 1 History
00:03:35 1.1 Pre-history
00:05:12 1.2 Early contacts with other cultures
00:11:16 1.3 Trading firms and traders
00:13:44 1.4 Scientific expeditions and travellers
00:17:43 1.5 Colonial administration
00:18:23 1.6 Second World War
00:20:31 1.7 Post-World War II – transition to independence
00:22:54 2 Government
00:23:03 2.1 Parliamentary democracy
00:26:17 2.2 Legal system
00:28:16 2.3 Foreign relations
00:34:41 2.4 Defence and law enforcement
00:36:03 2.5 Administrative divisions
00:37:58 3 Society
00:38:07 3.1 Demographics
00:42:33 3.2 Languages
00:43:54 3.3 Religion
00:45:58 3.4 Health
00:46:09 3.5 Education
00:49:29 4 Culture
00:49:38 4.1 Architecture
00:51:04 4.2 Art of Tuvalu
00:52:27 4.3 Dance and music
00:53:12 4.4 Cuisine
00:54:42 4.5 Heritage
00:56:13 5 Sport and leisure
01:00:35 6 Economy and government services
01:00:46 6.1 Economy
01:08:49 6.2 Tourism
01:10:18 6.3 Telecommunications and media
01:12:14 6.4 Transport
01:14:20 7 Geography and environment
01:14:31 7.1 Geography
01:17:05 7.2 Climate
01:19:36 7.3 Environmental pressures
01:23:43 7.4 Water and sanitation
01:26:29 8 Cyclones and king tides
01:26:39 8.1 Cyclones
01:31:18 8.2 King tides
01:32:07 9 Impact of climate change
01:32:18 9.1 Challenges Tuvalu faces as a result of climate change
01:38:08 9.2 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21)
01:40:21 10 Filmography and bibliography
01:40:36 11 See also



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Tuvalu ( (listen) too-VAH-loo or  TOO-və-loo), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island country located in the Pacific Ocean, situated in Oceania, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (belonging to the Solomons), southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna and north of Fiji. It comprises three reef islands and six true atolls spread out between the latitude of 5° to 10° south and longitude of 176° to 180°, west of the International Date Line. Tuvalu has a population of 10,640 (2012 census). The total land area of the islands of Tuvalu is 26 square kilometres (10 sq mi).
The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians. The pattern of settlement that is believed to have occurred is that the Polynesians spread out from Samoa and Tonga into the Tuvaluan atolls, with Tuvalu providing a stepping stone to migration into the Polynesian Outlier communities in Melanesia and Micronesia.
In 1568, Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to sail through the archipelago, sighting the island of Nui during his expedition in search of Terra Australis. The island of Funafuti was named Ellice's Island in 1819; the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands after the work of English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay. The Ellice Islands came into Great Britain's sphere of influence in the late 19th century, as the result of a treaty between Great Britain and Germany relating to the demarcation of the spheres of influence in the Pacific Ocean. Each of the Ellice Islands was declared a British Protectorate by Captain Gibson of HMS Curacoa between 9 and 16 October 1892. The Ellice Islands were administered as a British protectorate by a Resident Commissioner from 1892 to 1916, as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT), and then as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony from 1916 to 1976.
A referendum was held in December 1974 to determine whether the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands should each have their own administration. As a consequence of the referendum, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony ceased to exist on 1 January 1976, and the separate British colonies of Kiribati and Tuvalu came into existence. Tuvalu became fu ...