Pangaimotu is an island in the Vava'u Group of

Tonga Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in the southern Pacific Ocean. accordin ...

. It is reachable by a 5-minute boat trip from Neiafu, the capital of Vava'u. The population is 696. Tonga's first woman pilot,

Silva McLeod Silva McLeod (born 1961) is a Tongan pilot and writer, who in 1992, according to the Australian Aviation Authority, became the first woman from Tonga to be awarded a pilot's license. McLeod grew up on the island of Pangaimotu in Vava’u, in ...

was born here.

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Islands of Tonga Populated places in Vavaʻu {{Tonga-geo-stub