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6 unusual facts about Avatele


Avatele

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.

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.

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

Takelesi Lagaluga is the son of Lagaluga and Tikatupe (née Hakeagaiki) of Anafonua & Liolau, Avatele.

In his community of Avatele, he is remembered as a keen and avid planter, hunter and fisherman.

(10 June 1924 - 30 March 2009) was a Niuean administrator, politician and respected elder from the village of Avatele.


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