Nuulopa is a small, uninhabited island in the
Apolima Strait
The Apolima Strait is about 13 km wide and separates the two largest islands of Samoa: Savai'i to the northwest, and Upolu to the southeast.
Three small islands lie in the strait. Two of them, Manono and Apolima, have small village se ...
between the islands of
Upolu
Upolu is an island in Samoa, formed by a massive basaltic shield volcano which rises from the seafloor of the western Pacific Ocean. The island is long and in area, making it the second largest of the Samoan Islands by area. With approximate ...
and
Savaii in
Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...
, in central South Pacific Ocean. The island is part of the
Aiga-i-le-Tai
Aiga-i-le-Tai is a districts of Samoa, district of Samoa which includes the small islands of Manono Island, Manono, Apolima and tiny uninhabited Nu'ulopa lying in the Apolima Strait between the country's two main islands of Upolu and Savai'i.
The ...
district.
Nuulopa is about 50m above sea level. It is a small, forested, rocky outcrop with
coconut palm
The coconut tree (''Cocos nucifera'') is a member of the palm tree family (biology), family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus ''Cocos''. The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") can refer to the whole coconut palm, ...
s (''Cocos nucifera'') and a conservation area for
flying foxes
''Pteropus'' (suborder Yinpterochiroptera) is a genus of megabats which are among the largest bats in the world. They are commonly known as fruit bats or flying foxes, among other colloquial names.
They live in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Austr ...
. The surrounding sea is a conservation area for turtles.
Manono, Apolima and Nuulopa Cultural Landscape, Unesco. Retrieved 25 October 2009
Nu'ulopa sits between two other islands,
Apolima
Apolima is the smallest of the four inhabited islands of Samoa, in central South Pacific Ocean. It lies in the Apolima Strait, between the country's two largest islands: Upolu to the east, and Savai'i to the west.
The island has one village s ...
and
Manono. Those three islands lie on an underwater ridge that runs between the two main Samoan islands of Upolu and Savai'i.
Nu'ulopa has traditionally been used as a cemetery for the high chiefs (
''matai'') of Manono.
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Samoa Islands
The Samoan Islands () are an archipelago covering in the central South Pacific, forming part of Polynesia and of the wider region of Oceania. Administratively, the archipelago comprises all of the Independent State of Samoa and most of Americ ...
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Geography of Samoa
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List of islands
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Desert island
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References
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Uninhabited islands of Samoa
Aiga-i-le-Tai