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unusual facts about Futuna Island, Wallis and Futuna



2013–14 South Pacific cyclone season

During January 2, RSMC Nadi reported that Tropical Disturbance 07F had developed to the southeast of Futuna Island.

Cyclone Ian

During January 2, 2014 the Fiji Meteorological Service's Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in Nadi, Fiji (RSMC Nadi) reported that Tropical Disturbance 07F had developed to the southeast of Futuna Island.

Michel Jeanjean

Michel Jeanjean is the current Administrator Superior of Wallis and Futuna.

Roman Catholicism in Wallis and Futuna

Chanel went to Futuna Island, accompanied by a French laybrother Marie-Nizier Delorme, arriving in 1837.

Southern Islands by-election, 2009

The constituency covers four of the five islands of Tafea Province (Aniwa, Futuna, Erromango and Anatom, excluding only Tanna).

Taualuga

This dance form has been adopted and adapted throughout western Polynesia, most notably in the Kingdom of Tonga, Uvea, Futuna, and Tokelau.

Tomasi Kulimoetoke II

Tomasi Kulimoetoke II (26 July 1918 – 7 May 2007) was the 50th Lavelua (King) of Wallis Island, which is known as Uvea in the Wallisian language, one of the three traditional kingdoms in the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna.

Tui Manuʻa Elisala

Legends suggest that the Tui Manu'a kings governed a confederacy of far-flung islands which included Fiji, the Cook Islands as well as smaller western Pacific chiefdoms and Polynesian outliers such as Uvea, Futuna, Tokelau, and Tuvalu.

Wallis and Futuna

The head of state is President François Hollande of France as represented by the Administrator-Superior Michel Jeanjean (since July 2010).

The kings of Sigave and Alo on the islands of Futuna and Alofi also signed a treaty establishing a French protectorate on 16 February 1888.


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