Avatele Beach, the village's main sea track, stretches along the coast of Avatele Bay, and is the largest and most well known beach on the island.
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Avatele has also produced its fair share of prominent Niueans past and present, including Niue's late inaugural Premier Sir Robert Rex, his late brother and long-serving Senior Advisor to Government Leslie Rex OBE, the late Rev. Ikiua Lupo first President of the Ekalesia Kerisiano Niue, the late Takelesi Lagaluga first Niuean Head of a Government Deapartment & his son Hon.
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The village was first Christianized in early 1854 when a resident, Muatoga, asked Paulo, the Samoan missionary residing in Mutalau, to bring the gospel to his village in the far-south and Paulo agreed.
Takelesi Lagaluga is the son of Lagaluga and Tikatupe (née Hakeagaiki) of Anafonua & Liolau, Avatele.
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In his community of Avatele, he is remembered as a keen and avid planter, hunter and fisherman.
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(10 June 1924 - 30 March 2009) was a Niuean administrator, politician and respected elder from the village of Avatele.
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