Pukasavilivili or Tepuka Vili Vili is an

islet An islet is a very small, often unnamed island. Most definitions are not precise, but some suggest that an islet has little or no vegetation and cannot support human habitation. It may be made of rock, sand and/or hard coral; may be permanen ...

Funafuti Funafuti is the capital of the island nation of Tuvalu. It has a population of 6,320 people (2017 census), and so it has more people than the rest of Tuvalu combined, with approximately 60% of the population. It consists of a narrow sweep of lan ...

Tuvalu Tuvalu ( or ; formerly known as the Ellice Islands) is an island country and microstate in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. Its islands are situated about midway between Hawaii and Australia. They lie east-nor ...

. Tepuka Vili Vili is part of the

Funafuti Conservation Area The Funafuti Conservation Area is a marine conservation area covering 33 square kilometers (12.74 square miles) of reef, lagoon and ''motu'' (islets) on the western side of Funafuti atoll in Tuvalu. The marine environment of the conservation area ...

, established in 1996 with the aim of preserving the natural fauna and flora of the area. Tepuka Vili Vili was devastated by

Cyclone Meli In meteorology, a cyclone () is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an ant ...

in 1979, with all its vegetation and most of its sand swept away during the cyclone. Te Ava Kum Kum is the passage through the Funafuti atoll of the western rim, south of Te Ava Tepuka Vili, between the islets of Tepuka Vili Vili to the north and Fualopa immediately south.

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Islands of Tuvalu Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act Funafuti {{tuvalu-geo-stub