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Tuvalu (/ t uː ˈ v ɑː l uː / ⓘ too-VAH-loo) [7] is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north ...
Tuvalu (/ t uː ˈ v ɑː l uː / ⓘ too-VAH-loo) is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north of ...
Following independence the only newspaper publisher and public broadcasting organisation in Tuvalu was the Broadcasting and Information Office (BIO) of Tuvalu. [ 158 ] [ 159 ] The Tuvalu Media Corporation (TMC) was a government-owned corporation established in 1999 to take over the radio and print based publications of the BIO.
Provides an overview of Tuvalu, including key dates and facts about this Pacific island nation.
The islands of Tuvalu are spread out between the latitude of 5° to 10° south and longitude of 176° to 180°, west of the International Date Line. [4] The name, Tuvalu, means "eight standing together" in Tuvaluan. The Coral reefs of Tuvalu consists of three reef islands and six atolls, containing approximately 710 km 2 (270 sq mi) of reef ...
The location of Tuvalu An enlargeable map of Tuvalu. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Tuvalu: . Tuvalu (formerly known as the Ellice Islands) – sovereign Polynesian island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaiʻi and Australia. [1]
Tuvalu is a party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none Tuvalu signed the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992, and ratified it in December 2002. [96] [97]
Tuvalu participated in the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which resulted in the Paris Agreement, a global agreement to use best efforts to reduce global warming "to well below 2 degrees C". August 2016 Etimoni Timuani was the sole representative of Tuvalu at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 100 metres event. June 2017