Like other countries in Oceania, Tuvalu is a beneficiary of Cuban medical aid ; bilateral relations between Funafuti and Havana must be viewed within the scope of Cuba's regional policy in Oceania.

It is the royal anthem of Australia ( since 1984 ), Canada ( since 1980 ), Barbados, Jamaica, and Tuvalu.

The southernmost chain is the Austral Islands, with its northerly trending part the atolls in the nation of Tuvalu.

The 1999 German film Tuvalu is mostly silent ; the small amount of dialog is an odd mix of European languages, increasing the film's universality.

Samoa is recognized as the center of Polynesia, from where people migrated eastward to the Marquesas, southward to Niue and the Pukapuka islands of Rarotonga, and northward to the Tokelau and Tuvalu island groups ; in all these islands, oral tradition is maintained of ancestral voyages from the Samoan islands.

The Western Pacific nation of Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is situated northeast of Australia.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Tuvalu, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

This article is about the ways people in Tuvalu can communicate with one another.

The distribution of atolls around the globe is instructive: most of the world's atolls are in the Pacific Ocean ( with concentrations in the Tuamotu Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Coral Sea Islands, and the island groups of Kiribati, Tuvalu and Tokelau ) and Indian Ocean ( the Atolls of the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, the Chagos Archipelago and the Outer Islands of the Seychelles ).

The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians so that the origins of the people of Tuvalu is addressed in the theories regarding the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from Taiwan, via Melanesia and across the Pacific islands to create Polynesia.

The pattern of settlement that is believed to have occurred is that the Polynesians spread out from the Samoan Islands into the Tuvaluan atolls, with Tuvalu providing a stepping stone to migration into the Polynesian outlier communities in Melanesia and Micronesia.

Tuvalu is thought to have been visited by Tongans in the mid-13th century and was within Tonga's sphere of influence.

Tuvalu was first sighted by Europeans in 1568 during the voyage of Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira from Spain who is understood to have encounted the island of Nui, which he named Isla de Jesus ( Island of Jesus ) but was unable to land.

Tuvalu, one of the world's smallest countries, has indicated that its priority within the United Nations is to emphasise " climate change and the unique vulnerabilities of Tuvalu to its adverse impacts ".

At no more than three meters above sea level, Tuvalu is particularly exposed to these effects.

: In the event that the situation is not reversed, where does the international community think the Tuvalu people are to hide from the onslaught of sea level rise?

Taking us as environmental refugees, is not what Tuvalu is after in the long run.

Examples: Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Tuvalu, and also the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and British Columbia, and the American state of Hawaii ; see commons: Flags based on British ensigns.

AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 ( 2004 )-Same radio station, TMC ( Tuvalu Media Cooperation ) broadcasts on both AM and FM.

The UAE and Tuvalu established diplomatic relations on 31 March 2010.

Tuvalu became fully independent within the Commonwealth on October 1, 1978.

In May 1819, Captain Arent de Peyster ( or Peyter ) of New York, as captain of the armed brigantine or privateer Rebecca, sailing under British colours, while on a voyage from Valparaíso to India, passed through the southern Tuvalu waters ; de Peyster sighted Nukufetau and Funafuti, which he named Ellice's Island after an English Politician, Edward Ellice, the Member of Parliament for Coventry and the owner of the Rebecca's cargo.

Following 1819 whalers were roving the Pacific though visiting Tuvalu only infrequently because of the difficulties of landing ships on the atolls.

Peruvian slave raiders (" blackbirders ") seeking workers to mine the guano deposits on the Chincha Islands in Peru, combed the Pacific between 1862 and 1865, including the southern islands of Tuvalu.

A. W. Murray, the earliest European missionary in Tuvalu, reported that in 1863 about 180 people were taken from Funafuti and about 200 were taken from Nukulaelae as there were fewer than 100 of the 300 recorded in 1861 as living on Nukulaelae.

Henderson and Macfarlane then dominated the copra trade, operating their vessel SS Archer to call on islands in Fiji, Tuvalu, and Kiribati.

From 1900 the numbers of palagi traders in Tuvalu declined, with the last of the palagi traders being Fred Whibley on Niutao and Alfred Restieaux on Nukufetau.

The atolls of Tuvalu acted as a staging post during the preparation for the Battle of Tarawa and the Battle of Makin that commenced on 20 November 1943, which was the implementation of operation ' Galvanic '.

Tuvalu, having little or nothing to do with the causes, cannot be left on its own to pay the price.

Tuvalu is also requesting that Australia welcome part of its population on a permanent basis if and when they become climate refugees due to rising sea levels.

In Tonga, Seventh Day Adventists ( who usually observe seventh-day Sabbath ) observe Sabbath on an official Sunday due to an anomaly in the International Date Line which places the line east of Tonga ; as Tonga lies east of the meridian of 180 ° longitude, Sunday as observed in Tonga ( as with Kiribati, Samoa, and parts of Fiji and Tuvalu ) is considered for this purpose to be the same day as Saturday observed in most other places.

Sopoanga was elected Prime Minister of Tuvalu by MPs on 2 August 2002 after the general election in which previous prime minister Koloa Talake lost his seat.

Tuvalu notably played an active role in the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, attracting media and public attention with a proposed protocol which would have imposed deeper, legally binding emission cuts, including on developing nations.

Following Tuvaluan delegate Ian Fry's " tear-jerking that prompted wild applause among the crowded Copenhagen conference floor ", The Australian ’ s political editor commented that Tuvalu was " no longer small fry on the world stage ".

In November 2011, Tuvalu was one of the eight founding members of Polynesian Leaders Group, a regional grouping intended to cooperate on a variety of issues including culture and language, education, responses to climate change, and trade and investment.

Additionally, regular commercial boat service to Tuvalu is primarily through Fiji ( although one provider also goes on to Tarawa in Kiribati as well ).

Tuvalu established diplomatic relations with Russia on 25 September 2011.

He went on to command HMFS Kula, and spent four months in 1984 in the markings of the Exclusive Economic Zones of Tonga, Tuvalu, and Kiribati.

The office has existed since Tuvalu was granted independence from the United Kingdom, on October 1, 1978.

Tuvalu is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

In US waters, Atlantic tripletails are found from Massachusetts and Bermuda to Argentina, the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, from Madeira Island to the Gulf of Guinea, the eastern Pacific from Costa Rica to Peru, and the western Pacific from Japan to Fiji and Tuvalu.

The word is a cognate in other Polynesian languages and has gained widespread use throughout much of western Polynesia, including in Tokelau, Tuvalu, ' Uvea and Futuna, etc.

The term has gained widespread use throughout much of western Polynesia including Tokelau, Tuvalu, ' Uvea and Futuna, etc., with the expansion of use of the term being though to have occurred in the 18th century when Tongans, and to lesser extent Samoans, regularly interacted with white sailors, beachcombers, convicts, missionaries, and whalers who clearly delineated ethnoracial boundaries between themselves ( papalagi / papalangi ) and the Polynesians they encountered.