Question: Alaska Taufa, is a rugby union footballer, from which Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited?

Context articles: Matthew Silva
Tonga
Thomas Dobson (rugby)
Enele Taufa
James McLaren
Alaska Taufa
Frank Whitcombe Jr
Teddy Bartram
List of South African rugby union teams
Taufaʻao Filise

Matthew Silva (born 15 March 1970 in Tremorfa, Cardiff) is a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, and current rugby union coach, playing club level rugby union (RU) for St Albans RFC (Cardiff), Llandaff RFC, Newport RFC, Pontypool RFC, Newbridge RFC, West Hartlepool R.F.C., Cardiff RFC, Treorchy RFC, Rumney RFC, and Llantwit Major RFC, as a Number Eight, Fly-half, Centre, Wing, Fullback, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Halifax, as a fullback , i.e. number 1, and coaching club level rugby union (RU) for Llantwit Major RFC, Beddau RFC, Cardiff RFC, and Rumney RFC, and Cardiff Blues Under-16, Under-18, and Under-20 and Bridgend Ravens RFC, from 2005 to 2013 he was the Welsh Rugby Union/Cardiff Blues Player Development Officer for the Vale of Glamorgan.
 From 2013 to 2015 he was Director of Rugby at Cowbridge Comprehensive School and was responsible for establishing the Rugby Academy that competes in the Welsh Rugby Union National Colleges League.
 In 2015 he became the Welsh Rugby Union and Ospreys Coach Development Officer.
Tonga ( or ; Tongan: ] "Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga"), officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands, of which 36 are inhabited.
 The total surface area is about 750 km2 scattered over 700000 km2 of the southern Pacific Ocean.
 It has a population of 103,000 people, of whom 70% reside on the main island of Tongatapu.
Thomas "Tommy" Hyde Dobson (February 1872 — 12 November 1902) born in Bradford, was a rugby union footballer, and professional sprinter, and rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s, playing representative level rugby union (RU) for England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Undercliffe RFC, Laisterdyke RFC, Bowling RFC, and Bradford F.C., as a Centre, i.e. number 12, or 13, playing club level rugby league (RL) for Bradford F.C., as a wing , and as a sprinter, primarily in the Northern England, he won over £200 in prizes (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £81,950 in 2015), he died in Bradford from food poisoning after eating raw mussels. Prior to Tuesday 27 August 1895, Bradford F.C. was a rugby union club, it then became a rugby league club, and since 1907 it has been the association football (soccer) club Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C..
Enele Taufa (born 24 September 1984 in Ha'ateiho) is a Tongan rugby footballer prop who has represented Tonga at both rugby league and rugby union.
 Taufa was a member of the Tonga national rugby union team and participated at the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
 He plys his trade for local champions Sila Pelu Ua Rugby Club.
 In 2006 he represented the Tonga national rugby league team at the Pacific Cup.
James "Jim / Fritz / Jock" Gerard McLaren (born (1972--)28 1972 in Stirling) is a Scottish dual-code international rugby league and rugby union footballer, playing representative level rugby league (RL) for the Scotland national rugby league team, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, and playing representative level rugby union (RU) for the Scotland national rugby union team, as a centre and for Glasgow Warriors and Caledonia Reds.
Alaska Taufa (born 24 July 1983) is a Tongan rugby union footballer.
 His usual position is on the wing.
 He was part of the Tongan squad at the 2011 Rugby World Cup where he played in one match.He has also signed with French club Oyonnax for the 2015 season.
 He had currently played club rugby in Japan before making his way into French rugby .
Frank William Whitcombe was a Rugby Union footballer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s who played Rugby Union (RU) for Bradford RFC, Keighley RUFC and Army Rugby Union, playing at Prop, i.e. number 1 or 3, and at representative level played Rugby Union (RU) for Yorkshire, and North Eastern counties.
Christopher Edward Bartram (1857 — died 8 February 1927 (aged 70)) born in Leeds, was an English cricketer of the 1880s, and 1890s, and cricket Umpire of the 1890s to the 1920s, and the first professional rugby union footballer of the 1870s, and 1880s, playing representative level cricket for Northumberland (1892–99), and at club level for Wakefield (1879–80), North Leeds (1888–89), Benwell (1890–91, 1893–94, 1896), Elswick Works (1891–92), Belford (1893), Wallsend (1897-1900), and coaching at school level for Royal Grammar School, Newcastle (1893-1903), and Loretto School, and playing representative level rugby union (RU) for North of England, and Yorkshire, and at club level Harrogate RUFC (twice), York RUFC , and Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № not allocated for rugby union players), as a Centre, he died in Andover, Hampshire.
 Prior to Tuesday 27 August 1895, Wakefield Trinity was a rugby union club.
Rugby union in South Africa is centrally administered by the South African Rugby Union, which consists of fourteen provincial unions – the Blue Bulls Rugby Union, the Boland Rugby Union, the Border Rugby Football Union, the Eastern Province Rugby Union, the Free State Rugby Union, the Golden Lions Rugby Union, the Griffons Rugby Union, the Griqualand West Rugby Union, the KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union, the Leopards Rugby Union, the Mpumalanga Rugby Union, the South Western Districts Rugby Football Union, the Valke Rugby Union and the Western Province Rugby Football Union.
Taufa'ao Filise (born May 26, 1977 in Malapo) is a Tongan rugby union footballer.
 A powerful prop who has played his club rugby with Bay of Plenty alongside Tonga skipper Aleki Lutui.
 Filise played for the Ikale Tahi in their 2001 Epson Cup campaign and on the tour to Scotland and Wales later that year.
 He had his first match for Tonga 9, in 2001.
 He played the one-off Test against Japan in 2002 and some of the RWC qualifiers.
 He rejoined the Test side this year for the Pacific Tri-Nations after a long absence and played well enough to earn a spot on the Islanders team along with his front-row teammates.
 He grew up in Tonga and went to Tupou College in Nuku’alofa.
 In 2000, he joined Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, and has since represented the union 29 times and scored two tries.