Tokū is an uninhabited
volcanicisland in
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 located in the very north of
Vavaʻu
Vavau is an island group, consisting of one large island (ʻUtu Vavaʻu) and 40 smaller ones, in Tonga. It is part of Administrative divisions of Tonga, Vavaʻu District, which includes several other individual islands. According to tradition, ...
group in the north of the country. It is about long and up to wide, yielding an area of . It is up to
above sea level
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at its summit.
Global Volcanism Program , Toku
The closest island is Fonualei
Fonualei is an uninhabited volcanic island in the kingdom of Tonga. It 70 km northwest of Vavaʻu and is part of the highly active Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone and its associated volcanic arc, which extends from New Zealand north-northeas ...
19.7 km to the northwest.
History
The island was inhabited in the 1830s, the inhabitants living on Tokū and having gardens on Fonualei
Fonualei is an uninhabited volcanic island in the kingdom of Tonga. It 70 km northwest of Vavaʻu and is part of the highly active Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone and its associated volcanic arc, which extends from New Zealand north-northeas ...
.[
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See also
* Desert island
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* List of islands
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water
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References
Uninhabited islands of Tonga
Vavaʻu
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